PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15886864
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["345", "174000"]

Abstract:
In a capacitive touch sensor device, to avoid floating touches causing signal inversion in mutual capacitance measurements, a segmented conductive layer of conductive material is embedded in the touch panel. The segmented conductive layer comprises a plurality of segments of the conductive material which are separated by gaps. The segmented conductive layer effectively pre-loads the mutual capacitance of the touch sensor to the same or similar level of that of a floating touch of the maximum size for which it is desired to avoid signal inversion.

Claim (Index 21):
A method of manufacturing a device incorporating a capacitive touch sensor, the method comprising:\n fabricating a touch panel having on an upper side a touch surface and on a lower side an internal surface, the touch panel being made of a dielectric material; fabricating an X electrode layer accommodating a set of X electrodes arranged under the touch panel and extending in an x direction; fabricating a Y electrode layer accommodating a set of Y electrodes arranged under the touch panel and extending in a y direction different from the x direction, such that the X and Y electrodes cross each other to form a two-dimensional array of nodes defining a touch sensitive area in which adjacent portions of the X and Y electrodes are separated by a gap \u2018G\u2019 suitable for making a mutual capacitance measurement of a touching object impinging on the touch surface; and fabricating a segmented conductive layer of conductive material embedded in the touch panel beneath the touch surface to pre-load the mutual capacitance between the adjacent portions of the X and Y electrodes of the sensor to the same or similar level of that of a floating touch of maximum size that it is desired to mitigate against, the segmented conductive layer comprising a plurality of segments of the conductive material which are separated by gaps \u2018s\u2019.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.85714
- Patent Class: 345.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15886863', '15886862', '15596156', '13453923', '15386612']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6368879550679027
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5430012025180069
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6274992798129131
- Mean Citation Score: 285.876738
- Max Citation Score: 383.00894
- Similarity Product: 337.0275018059325

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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