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 1):
A system comprising:\n a resistive touch sensor comprising an array of sense electrode and drive electrode pairs; a first shield electrode coupled to the resistive touch sensor and extending across a first region of the resistive touch sensor; and a controller configured to:\n during a first resistance scan cycle in a first sampling period:\n drive the first shield electrode to a virtual reference potential; and \n read resistance values across sense electrode and drive electrode pairs in the resistive touch sensor; and \n \n during a first processing cycle succeeding the first resistance scan cycle within the first sampling period, transform resistance values read from sense electrode and drive electrode pairs in the resistive touch sensor into a force touch image, the force touch image representing locations and force magnitudes of objects proximal to the resistive touch sensor.

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): 0.5921735172555275
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4771819684494561
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5806743623749203
- Mean Citation Score: 184.185964
- Max Citation Score: 243.69398
- Similarity Product: 240.9280736856508

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

Dataset: test