PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15976177
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["324", "414000"]

Abstract:
The embodiments disclosed herein describe a set of fault detection circuits for LED circuits in an LED channel. A first fault detection circuit is configured to detect a short fault across one or more LEDs. A second fault detection circuit is configured to detect an open fault across an LED. A third fault detection circuit is configured to detect a short across an LED channel transistor. A fourth fault detection circuit is configured to detect an LED channel sense resistor open fault. A fifth fault detection circuit is configured to detect if the LED channel is being intentionally unused. These fault detect circuits can be implemented in a fault detection integrated circuit coupled to the LED channel.

Claim (Index 13):
An LED fault detection integrated circuit configured to detect faults of an LED channel, the integrated circuit comprising:\n a first set of fault detection circuits coupled to a source node of an LED channel transistor and configured to detect one or more LED channel faults when the integrated circuit is configured in a calibration mode; and a second set of fault detection circuits configured to detect one or more LED channel faults when the integrated circuit is configured in an operating mode, wherein the integrated circuit is configured to operate in the calibration mode before being configured to operate in the operating mode; wherein a fault detection circuit is included in the first set of fault detection circuits and the second set of fault detection circuits, and wherein the fault detection circuit is configured to detect a sense resistor short circuit fault when the integrated circuit is configured in the operating mode and to detect an LED open circuit fault when the integrated circuit is configured in the calibration mode.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.53061
- Patent Class: 324.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14787270', '13347621', '13346625', '13177420', '15959493']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5671310359884733
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5308610620972899
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5635040385993549
- Mean Citation Score: 238.732998
- Max Citation Score: 381.03915
- Similarity Product: 332.5645398735791

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