PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16057296
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["348", "223100"]

Abstract:
A modular device includes base and color sensing portions. The color sensing portion has a face, a controlled light source offset from the face to define an interior, the face configured to engage a target surface about a perimeter of the device housing wherein ambient light is restricted from entering the interior. A color sensor receives light reflected from the target surface and generates output signals representative of a surface color. The base portion communicates with the color sensor and a user device having a hosted program which generates a user interface enabling users to provide control input for the color sensor. The program further receives the output signals from the color sensing device and displays a first image of the detected color, and displays a second image of a user-selected color beside the first image. Color data values are further displayed corresponding to the difference between displayed colors.

Claim (Index 1):
A color sensing system comprising:\n a color sensing device further comprising\n a housing having an external perimeter and a face, \n a controlled light source residing within the housing and offset from the face to define an interior within the perimeter of the housing, the face configured to engage a target surface about the perimeter of the housing wherein ambient light is substantially restricted from entering the interior, and \n a color sensor arranged to receive light radiated by the controlled light source and reflected from the target surface when the face of the color sensing device engages the target surface, the sensor further effective to generate output signals representative of a color of the target surface; \n a controller configured to control the plurality of light-emitting diodes to be turned off or on across a plurality of lighting power levels in response to an input control signal; a computing device having a display unit and a processor configured to\n generate a user interface via the display unit enabling a user to select from a plurality of available lighting conditions for the color sensing device, and to select one or more of a plurality of colors stored in a database, \n transmit control signals to the color sensing device corresponding to the selected lighting condition, and \n generate, on the display unit of the computing device, a first image comprising the color represented by the output signals from the color sensing device, at least a second image comprising the selected one or more colors alongside the first image, and data corresponding to a difference between the first image and the at least second image according to one or more color models.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.05195
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14702236', '14469668', '15032335', '13792354', '13594107']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5776983501557355
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4991634332280793
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5698448584629698
- Mean Citation Score: 212.670878
- Max Citation Score: 283.8121
- Similarity Product: 267.0639676306844

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