PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15904738
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["704", "233000"]

Abstract:
According to one embodiment, a sound processing apparatus extracts a feature of first speech uttered outside an objective area from first speech obtained at positions different from each other in a space of the objective area and a place outside the objective area. The apparatus creates, by learning, a determination model configured to determine whether an utterance position of second speech in the space is outside the objective area based at least in part on the feature uttered outside the objective area. The apparatus eliminates a portion of the second speech uttered outside the objective area from the second speech obtained by a second microphone based at least in part on the feature and the model. The apparatus detects and outputs remaining speech from the second speech.

Claim (Index 4):
The sound processing apparatus of  claim 1 , further comprising a noise elimination device that eliminates noise from the second speech obtained by at least one of the plurality of first microphones, wherein\n the speech detector eliminates the portion of the second speech uttered outside the objective area from the second speech after the noise has already been eliminated by the noise elimination device based at least in part on the feature and the determination model, wherein the speech detector detects and outputs the remaining speech from the second speech.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.43636
- Patent Class: 704.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13490161', '15430690', '14572941', '12176668', '14524068']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.2635342572642424
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4718402024357514
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.2843648517813933
- Mean Citation Score: 173.289068
- Max Citation Score: 183.49417
- Similarity Product: 139.8043298486018

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