PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16178841
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["348", "014080"]

Abstract:
A videoconference apparatus at a first location detects audio from a location and determines whether the sound should be included in an audio-video stream sent to a second location, or excluded as an interfering noise. Determining whether to include the audio involves using a face detector to see if there is a face at the source of the sound. If a face is present, the audio data from the location will be transmitted to the second location. If a face is not present, additional motion checks are performed to determine whether the sound corresponds to a person talking, (such as a presenter at a meeting), or whether the sound is instead unwanted noise.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for providing interference-free audio pickup in a video conference, the method comprising:\n detecting audio data in an environment, using a plurality of microphones; determining, at a processor, a first location of a source of the audio data, using a beamforming algorithm; detecting first facial data in the environment, using a camera; determining, at the processor, a second location of a source of the first facial data; determining, at a first time, using the processor, that the second location corresponds to the first location, and responsive to determining that the first location corresponds to the second location, including the audio data in an audio stream; checking, at a second time, for second facial data corresponding to the first location; determining, responsive to checking at the second time, a first absence of second facial data; checking, at a third time, for motion at the first location, responsive to determining the first absence of second facial data; determining, responsive to checking at the third time, a presence of motion at the first location; and continuing to include the audio data responsive, at least in part, determining the presence of motion at the first location.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.87879
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15640385', '12782137', '14943667', '15369576', '13786260']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5678130285914109
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4721491035731636
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5582466360895862
- Mean Citation Score: 182.891098
- Max Citation Score: 223.15982
- Similarity Product: 209.8837972949874

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