PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16076029
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["381", "059000"]

Abstract:
[Problem] In the case where an audio signal of the same source is output from a plurality of speakers, the speakers are adjusted so that the audio signals become optimal at a listening position. [Solution] Processing in which an audio signal output from a wireless speaker  1  is collected by a microphone of a controller  2  carried by a listener and a delay time is measured that is the difference between an output time of the audio signal from the wireless speaker  1  and an input time of the audio signal to the microphone of the controller  2  is performed on a plurality of the wireless speakers  1  that output an audio signal of the same source, and the delay times of the audio signals from these respective wireless speakers  1  are measured. Output timings of these respective wireless speakers  1  are adjusted on the basis of these delay times.

Claim (Index 1):
A wireless audio system, comprising a plurality of wireless speakers and a controller configured to remotely operate the plurality of wireless speakers,\n wherein the plurality of wireless speakers each include:\n test signal output means for outputting a test signal, which is a predetermined audio signal, to notify the controller of an output time of the test signal, or for outputting the test signal at an output time designated in a test instruction, which is received from the controller, in accordance with the test instruction; and \n output adjustment means for adjusting an output timing of an audio signal to be played back in accordance with an output adjustment instruction received from the controller, and \n wherein the controller includes:\n a microphone configured to collect a sound of the test signal; \n measurement means for measuring a delay period, the delay period being a difference between the output time of the test signal received from each of the plurality of wireless speakers or the output time of the test signal designated in the test instruction and an input time of the test signal into the microphone, in which the controller transmits the test instruction to each of the plurality of wireless speakers to cause the each of the plurality of wireless speakers to output the test signal, and to cause the microphone to collect the sound of the test signal, and; \n determination means for determining an output timing of each of the plurality of wireless speakers based on the delay period of the each of the plurality of wireless speakers measured by the measurement means; and \n output adjustment instruction transmission means for transmitting, to each of the plurality of wireless speakers, the output adjustment instruction containing designation of the output timing of the each of the plurality of wireless speakers determined by the determination means.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.60656
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15760419', '13111559', '15319393', '10119849', '15747986']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6995854385926794
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.496151669678713
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6792420617012828
- Mean Citation Score: 223.130084
- Max Citation Score: 242.66328
- Similarity Product: 175.88912662575245

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

Dataset: test