PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15756141
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["345", "174000"]

Abstract:
A domestic appliance for treating objects includes a control device and an operating device being an external or internal touch screen. The control device displays a display field within a screen display having an operating element and a display element setting and displaying a control variable of the appliance settable by touch. The operating element contains a sensor element having segments. A lowest value of the control variable or an OFF function deactivating the control variable is associated with a first segment and different values of the control variable are associated with further segments. The control device displays at least two display elements after and/or simultaneously with touching the sensor element. The first display element displays lowest settable value of the control variable or OFF function and the second display element displays highest settable value of the control variable. A method for operating the appliance is also provided.

Claim (Index 29):
A method for operating a domestic appliance for treating objects, the method comprising the following steps:\n i) providing a control device and an operating device constructed as an external or internal touch screen, the control device being configured to display a display field on at least a part of the touch screen and to display at least one operating element and at least first and second display elements on the display field, the at least one operating element being used to set a settable control variable of the domestic appliance by touch, the operating element being an elongate flat sensor element including at least three segments, the settable control variable including a value scale with at least three values, the value scale having a respective value being associated with each segment for setting a value by touching an external input unit, the settable control variable changing continuously or in jumps, at least one of a lower settable value or an OFF function being associated with a first segment, the control device being configured to display at least the first and second display elements at least one of following or simultaneously with a first touch of the sensor element, the first display element displaying at least one of a lowest settable value of the value scale or the OFF function, and the second display element displaying a highest settable value of the value scale; ii) providing a spacing between the further segments, and providing a spacing between the first segment and the further segments being larger than the spacing between the further segments; iii) displaying a display field within a screen display, locating the elongate, flat sensor element with the first segment and the at least two further segments in the display field as at least one operating element, associating the lowest value of the settable control variable or the OFF function for deactivating the control variable with the first segment and respectively associating different values of the settable control variable with the at least two further segments; iv) displaying at least first and second display elements for the display of a control variable of the domestic appliance to be set by touch at least one of following or simultaneously with a touching of the sensor element, displaying the lowest settable value of the control variable or the OFF function with the first display element, and displaying the highest settable value of the control variable with the second display element; v) modifying the settable control variable corresponding to touching the sensor element; and vi) carrying out a treatment program with the modified control variable.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.42188
- Patent Class: 345.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14128203', '15500711', '16060441', '15329334', '13138399']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6120283394530796
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.479494362911911
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5987749417989627
- Mean Citation Score: 142.35397600000005
- Max Citation Score: 155.86595
- Similarity Product: 107.00967836908102

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test