PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16044052
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["315", "151000"]

Abstract:
A driver circuit for a semiconductor light source and to a method for controlling the brightness thereof are provided. When a pulse width modulated semiconductor light source reaches a duty cycle threshold value, the voltage is increased or decreased through a variable voltage source in order to achieve a higher dynamic range.

Claim (Index 16):
A driver circuit with a semiconductor light source, comprising:\n a semiconductor light source; a pulse width modulator; a voltage source in communication with the semiconductor light source via the pulse width modulator; a sensor measuring a luminous intensity of light emitted by the semiconductor light source; and a controller in communication with the sensor and the pulse width modulator, the controller receiving the luminous intensity from the sensor and controlling the pulse width modulator to provide a pulse width modulated voltage to the semiconductor light source from the voltage source based on the luminous intensity, wherein the controller is not connected to a sensing resistor for sensing current applied to the semiconductor light source.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 38.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.34146
- Patent Class: 315.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12324948', '11655308', '15139663', '14248290', '13105769']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7017227656772033
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5033409248337558
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6818845815928586
- Mean Citation Score: 204.467046
- Max Citation Score: 212.84055
- Similarity Product: 133.6652526706785

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

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