PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16234983
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["315", "152000"]

Abstract:
A security light technology to configure an automatically setting timer used for selecting and operating a light-on duration activated by a motion sensor is disclosed. The disclosed uses a shutoff transition mode to eliminate a hassle or hardship caused by an unexpected “shutoff” of illumination. The shutoff transition mode also serves a communication interface between the motion sensor and an occupant remaining in a detection space such that the occupant can interrupt the shutoff transition mode. The disclosed uses a software algorithm to detect and learn the motion characteristics of occupants in the detection space and thereby to automatically set a timer to operate the light-on duration triggered by a motion intrusion. The disclosed also teaches a dual mode motion sensing light configured with a short timer to manage a pathway illumination and a long timer to manage an occupancy illumination bridged by the shutoff transition mode.

Claim (Index 19):
A method for setting a value of an automatic timer for operating a motion sensor activated security light being used for providing an occupancy illumination need, wherein the automatic timer being set is capable of controlling a light-on time duration triggered by a motion signal according to an occupancy state of a detection space, the method comprising:\n using a machine learning software working in conjunction with a motion sensor and a controller to analyze motion characteristics of an occupant entering and staying in a detection space in a motion intrusion event and to identify an ultimate value of an operating timer to be considered for setting the automatic timer thru an operating timer escalation algorithm, wherein the operating timer escalation algorithm is configured with a recurring formula to repeatedly increase and renew a value of the operating timer till reaching the ultimate value which surpasses a maximum motionless duration for the occupant staying in the detection space such that the light will not turn off so long as the occupant remains in the detection space and the light will only be turned off when the operating timer with the ultimate value successfully expires without being renewed, wherein the ultimate value of the operating timer so derived is recorded as one sample of the ultimate operating timer, the machine learning software continues to search for more ultimate values of operating timer for a sufficient M number of motion intrusion events after the security light being installed in a detection space to build a statistical data base to be used for determining a final value to be selected as the automatic timer; using an inference algorithm designed to analyze distribution characteristics of the statistical database collected from operating the machine learning software and to determine an optimal value of timer best representing motion characteristics in the detection space for operating the light-on duration triggered by a motion signal detected by the motion sensor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0
- Patent Class: 315.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16201219', '15856468', '15719846', '15785658', '15896403']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7676891031220683
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5385818917770686
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7447783819875684
- Mean Citation Score: 373.99475
- Max Citation Score: 391.73267
- Similarity Product: 270.1434687647355

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

Dataset: test