PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15997539
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["704", "200100"]

Abstract:
A numerical sound synthesis method for representing data as audio for use in data sonification employing a Hilbert Space eigenfunction model of human auditory perception is described. The synthesis method comprises approximating an eigenfunction equation representing a model of human hearing, calculating the approximation to each of a plurality of eigenfunctions from at least one aspect of the eigenfunction equation, and storing the approximation to each of a plurality of eigenfunctions. The approximation to each of a plurality of eigenfunctions represents a perception-oriented basis functions for mathematically representing audio information in a Hilbert-space representation of an audio signal space. The model of human hearing can include a bandpass operation with a bandwidth having the frequency range of human hearing and a time-limiting operation approximating the time duration correlation window of human hearing. In an embodiment, the approximated eigenfunctions comprise a convolution of a prolate spheroidal wavefunction with a trigonometric function.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for data sonification optimized for human auditory perception for use in conjunction with human hearing, the method comprising: approximating an eigenfunction equation representing a model of human hearing, wherein the model comprises a bandpass operation approximating the frequency range of human hearing and a time-limiting operation approximating the time duration correlation window of human hearing, calculating the approximation to each of a plurality of eigenfunctions associated with at least one aspect of the eigenfunction equation; and storing the approximation to each of the plurality of eigenfunctions for retrieval and use at a later time, wherein amplitude of at least some of the plurality of approximated eigenfunctions are arranged to be modulated over time to produce associated modulated signals, wherein the modulated signals are summed to produce a composite synthesized signal, and wherein the composite synthesized signal is rendered as at least one audio signal representing audio information to represent data with synthesized sound.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.95062
- Patent Class: 704.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14089605', '15469429', '12849013', '14176000', '15585702']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3400013924857322
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6958681049876709
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3755880637359261
- Mean Citation Score: 503.948868
- Max Citation Score: 750.96765
- Similarity Product: 719.2427302270172

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

Dataset: test