PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15866659
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["381", "122000"]

Abstract:
System and method examples offer ways to count occupants in an area by sound. A system includes a data network, a light fixture having intelligent driver circuitry coupled to a light source, a lighting control device to control a light output and operations of the light source in an area, and a microphone coupled to the lighting control device. The lighting control device includes programming that configures a processor to control the microphone to sample and detect sound in the area, determine a location of the detected sound relative to a position of the microphone coupled to the lighting control device, and increment an occupant counter to correspond to each newly determined location of sound in the area for a predetermined period of time.

Claim (Index 13):
The method of  claim 12 , further comprising:\n continued controlling of the microphone accessible to each of the plurality of light fixtures to detect any additional sound in the area; determining a noise vector of the additional sound based upon intensity, time and frequency of the additional sound; and comparing the noise vector of the additional detected sound in the area to the noise vector of the stored order of sound reception information and identification of the microphone from which the sampled sounds were detected, wherein when the noise vector of the additional detected sound does not match the noise vector of the stored order of sound reception information and identification of the microphone, the occupancy counter is incremented, and wherein when the noise vector of the additional detected sound matches the noise vector of the stored order of sound reception information and identification of the microphone from which the sampled sounds were detected, the occupancy counter is not incremented.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.16393
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15681941', '13289492', '15260317', '14476341', '14267386']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.696885739257947
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4977179540429688
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6769689607364492
- Mean Citation Score: 194.68261
- Max Citation Score: 209.32597
- Similarity Product: 131.45598989742876

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