PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16286248
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["345", "174000"]

Abstract:
One variation of a method for detecting and characterizing force inputs on a surface includes: during a resistance scan cycle of a sampling period, driving a shield electrode arranged over a resistive touch sensor to a reference potential and reading resistance values across sense electrode and drive electrode pairs in the resistive touch sensor; during a processing cycle of the sampling period, transforming the resistance values into a position and a magnitude of a force applied to a tactile surface over the shield electrode, releasing the shield electrode from the reference potential, reading a capacitance value of the shield electrode, and detecting proximity of an object to the tactile surface based on the capacitance value; and generating a touch image representing the position and the magnitude of the force on the tactile surface based on the proximity of the object to the tactile surface.

Claim (Index 3):
A method for detecting and characterizing force inputs on a surface, the method comprising:\n during a first resistance scan cycle of a first sampling period:\n driving a first shield electrode arranged over a resistive touch sensor to a virtual reference potential; and \n reading a first set of resistance values across sense electrode and drive electrode pairs in the resistive touch sensor; \n during a first processing cycle succeeding the first resistance scan cycle of the first sampling period:\n transforming the first set of resistance values into a first position and a first magnitude of a first force applied to a tactile surface over the shield electrode; and \n reading a first capacitance value of the first shield electrode; and \n generating a first touch image representing the first position and the first magnitude of the first force on the tactile surface for the first sampling period.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.5082
- Patent Class: 345.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15470669', '16112548', '15476732', '15845751', '15224003']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5907749674447608
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4835769055620799
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5800551612564927
- Mean Citation Score: 184.185964
- Max Citation Score: 243.69398
- Similarity Product: 225.2591461459852

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

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