PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15952869
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["315", "151000"]

Abstract:
A control device may have a plurality of buttons that may be backlit to multiple levels, such as first, second, and third adjacent buttons positioned in order, and first, second, and third LEDs positioned to illuminate a respective button. The control device may be configured to illuminate the first LED to a first LED illumination intensity to illuminate the respective button to a first surface illumination intensity; illuminate the third LED to a second LED illumination intensity to illuminate the respective button to a second surface illumination intensity; and illuminate the second LED to a third LED illumination intensity to illuminate the respective button to the second surface illumination intensity. The third LED illumination intensity may be less than the second LED illumination intensity, which may be less than the first LED illumination intensity, and the second surface illumination intensity may be less than the first surface illumination intensity.

Claim (Index 1):
A control device comprising:\n a first button, a second button, and a third button; a first light source, a second light source, and a third light source, wherein the first, second, and third light sources are configured to illuminate at least a portion of a respective one of the first, second, and third buttons; and a control circuit responsive to actuations of the first, second, and third buttons, and electrically coupled to the first, second, and third light sources, the control circuit configured to:\n illuminate the first light source to a first source illumination intensity to illuminate first indicia on the first button; \n illuminate the second light source to a second source illumination intensity to illuminate second indicia on the second button; and \n illuminate the third light source to a third source illumination intensity to illuminate third indicia on the third button; \n wherein the second and third source illumination intensities are both less than the first source illumination intensity so that the first indicia on the first button is illuminated to a brighter intensity than the respective indicia on the second and third buttons; and wherein the second source illumination intensity is less than the third source illumination intensity in part because the second button is closer than the third button to the first indicia on the first button.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 19.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.85714
- Patent Class: 315.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14850315', '15680516', '15857058', '15165579', '15165559']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7706381946069448
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5875965315643853
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7523340283026888
- Mean Citation Score: 406.802132
- Max Citation Score: 480.5696400000001
- Similarity Product: 475.3797151165724

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