PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15925329
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["345", "175000"]

Abstract:
An optical IR touch sensing apparatus configured to determine, based on output signals of light detectors, a light energy value for each light path across a touch surface, and generate a transmission value for each light path based on the light energy value. A processor is then configured to process the transmission values to determine a region around the object reference point on the touch surface and a set of light paths intersecting the region. By performing statistical analysis of the set of light paths, characteristics of the object may be determined.

Claim (Index 1):
A touch sensing apparatus, comprising:\n a touch surface, a plurality of emitters, arranged around the periphery of the touch surface, configured to emit beams of light such that one or more objects touching the touch surface cause an attenuation or occlusion of light; a plurality of detectors, arranged around the periphery of the touch surface, configured to receive light from the plurality of emitters on a plurality of light paths, wherein each detector in the plurality of detectors is arranged to receive light from more than one emitter in the plurality of emitters; and a hardware processor configured to:\n determine, based on output signals from the plurality of detectors, a plurality of transmission values, each of the plurality of transmission values corresponding to each of the plurality of light paths; \n determine an object reference point on the touch surface where the light is attenuated or occluded by an object based on the plurality of transmission values; \n determine an area on the touch surface including the object reference point; \n determine one or more light paths of the plurality of light paths intersecting the area; \n determine a numerical measure based on the determined one or more light paths intersecting the area, and \n determine one or more characteristics of the object based on the numerical measure.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.90385
- Patent Class: 345.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15925230', '15925333', '14052101', '12998771', '15547587']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7045487217979544
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.502704696354739
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6843643192536328
- Mean Citation Score: 265.839178
- Max Citation Score: 315.3264200000001
- Similarity Product: 309.66523996182445

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

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