PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15914783
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["315", "152000"]

Abstract:
A control panel or display device that includes a light source, a controller, an illuminated element, a light conductor, and a light sensor. The controller generates a control signal instructing the light source when to generate light. The light conductor conducts light generated by the light source to the illuminated element to illuminate it. The light conductor receives ambient light through the illuminated element when the light source is not generating light. The light sensor receives the ambient light from the light conductor, generates a sensor signal based on the received ambient light, and sends the sensor signal to the controller. The controller determines a brightness level based at least in part on the sensor signal and encodes the brightness level in the control signal. Brightness of the light generated by the light source is based at least in part on the brightness level encoded in the control signal.

Claim (Index 13):
A display device comprising:\n a plurality of pixels; a backlight positioned behind the plurality of pixels; a controller configured to generate a control signal and send the control signal to the backlight, the control signal instructing the backlight when to generate light and when not to generate light; at least one light conductor positioned behind the plurality of pixels and configured to conduct light generated by the backlight to active ones of the plurality of pixels to thereby illuminate the active pixels, the at least one light conductor being configured to receive ambient light through at least one of the plurality of pixels when the backlight is not generating light; and at least one light sensor positioned behind the plurality of pixels, the at least one light sensor being configured to receive the ambient light from the at least one light conductor, generate one or more sensor signals based on the received ambient light, and send the one or more sensor signals to the controller, the controller being configured to determine a brightness level based at least in part on the one or more sensor signals and encode the brightness level in the control signal, brightness of the light generated by the backlight being based at least in part on the brightness level encoded in the control signal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 37.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.94545
- Patent Class: 315.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15081394', '11972199', '13187826', '13689461', '12476067']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6881018204721677
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4545093529479106
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.664742573719742
- Mean Citation Score: 135.97519300000002
- Max Citation Score: 148.66167
- Similarity Product: 122.64640763337673

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

Dataset: test