PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15915875
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["340", "407100"]

Abstract:
A tactile or haptic guidance device incorporates a LIDAR assembly and servo motor assembly or linear actuators to provide tactile feedback to the user. The LIDAR assembly determines obstacles in the path of the user and the micro-controller uses the LIDAR data to send a signal to the servo motor assembly or linear actuators, which will cause translational or rotational movement along one or more axes with appropriate amounts of force to provide tactile feedback to the user about objects in their path.

Claim (Index 1):
A tactile responsive guidance device, comprising:\n a. a housing having one or more recesses for accommodating one or more components of the device; b. a LIDAR assembly positioned within the housing at a front end for detecting objects in front of the first end of the housing; c. a controller; d. a multi-axis tactile feedback assembly; e. an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) for sensing the current orientation of the device, sensing any changes in movement of the device, and for communicating with the LIDAR assembly and the controller; f. a power supply for supplying power to the LIDAR assembly, the controller, the multi-axis tactile feedback assembly and the IMU; and g. the controller receiving signals from the LIDAR assembly and the IMU related to objects identified by the LIDAR, the current position of the device by the IMU; h. the controller determines the amount of force to provide to the multi-axis tactile feedback assembly and communicates with the multi-axis tactile feedback assembly to initiate movement along each axis of the multi-axis tactile feedback assembly; and i. the multi-axis tactile feedback assembly positioned within a first recess of the one or more recesses, the recess configured to transmit forces exerted by multi-axis tactile feedback assembly to the housing to provide tactile feedback to the user of the device.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.72
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13293455', '11588596', '15689448', '13280583', '12963502']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6473294638553224
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4825343634215956
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6308499538119499
- Mean Citation Score: 131.96648000000002
- Max Citation Score: 142.87215
- Similarity Product: 98.06895053295491

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test