PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16127478
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["381", "092000"]

Abstract:
A microphone unit includes: a case having an interior space; a unidirectional microphone held in the interior space of the case; a first opening provided in the case; and a second opening provided in the case, wherein the first opening and the second opening are arranged opposite to each other across the microphone and are arranged in a straight line parallel to an axis of sensitivity of the microphone.

Claim (Index 7):
An audio apparatus comprising:\n the microphone unit according to  claim 1 ; and an audio processor connected with a communication device, wherein the communication device sends a first signal to an external apparatus comprising an external speaker and an external microphone, the first signal being supplied to the external speaker, and the communication device receives a second signal from the external apparatus, the second signal being output from the external microphone, wherein the microphone unit is located at a position, a distance from a first speaker to the position being substantially equal to a distance from a second speaker to the position, and wherein the audio processor is configured to:\n conduct signal processing on a signal output from the microphone unit for producing an audio signal; \n supply the audio signal as the first signal to the communication device;\n conduct signal processing on the second signal supplied from the \n communication device for producing a first audio signal and a second audio signal that is in-phase with the first audio signal; \n supply the first audio signal to the first speaker; and \n supply the second audio signal to the second speaker.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.02703
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13472617', '12080902', '13120885', '13875526', '11486333']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.678966946853136
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4580452552579098
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6568747776936134
- Mean Citation Score: 158.47031
- Max Citation Score: 163.38605
- Similarity Product: 134.61528325612542

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