PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15916198
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["434", "116000"]

Abstract:
The portable robot for two-way communication with the hearing-impaired provides for translation of audio into hand movements, hand shapes, hand orientations; the location of the hands around the body, the movements of the body and the head, facial expressions and lip movements to provide communication from a non-hearing-impaired individual(s) to hearing-impaired individual(s). The robot also translates hand movements, hand shapes, hand orientations; the location of the hands around the body, the movements of the body and the head, facial expressions and lip movements into audio to provide communication from hearing-impaired individual(s) to non-hearing-impaired individual(s). A communication system is provided to allow remote communication with non-hearing-impaired individual(s).

Claim (Index 1):
A portable robot for two-way communication between a non-hearing impaired user and a hearing-impaired user, the portable robot comprising:\n a base; a first connection; a torso mounted on the base via the first connection, the torso having a generally planar triangular configuration including a front, a back, a bottom, a left top, a right top and a center top; a left arm and a first shoulder joint, the left arm having a proximate end and a distal end, the proximate end being mounted to the left top of the torso via the first shoulder joint, the left arm including a first elbow joint; a left hand and a first wrist joint, the left hand being mounted on the distal end of the left arm via the first wrist joint, the left hand having a first little finger, a first ring finger; a first middle finger, a first index finger and a first thumb; at least one first servo motor and a first servo controller connected to the first servo motor, the fingers each being connected to and moved by the at least one first servo motor as controlled by the first servo controller; a right arm and a second shoulder joint, the right arm having a proximate end and a distal end, the proximate end being mounted to the right top of the torso via the second shoulder joint, the right arm including a second elbow joint; a right hand and a second wrist joint, the right hand being mounted on the distal end of the right arm via the second wrist joint, the right hand including a second little finger, a second ring finger; a second middle finger, a second index finger and a second thumb; at least one second servo motor and a second servo controller, the fingers each being connected to and moved by the at least one second servo motor as controlled by the second servo controller; a neck joint; a head rotatably mounted on the center top of the torso via the neck joint, the head having a front surface facing the hearing impaired user, a first side surface, a second side surface, a first display screen mounted on the front surface, a 3D camera mounted on the front surface, a robot microphone mounted on the front surface, a first robot speaker mounted on the first side surface and a second robot speaker mounted on the second side surface; a housing mounted on the back of the torso, the housing having a second display screen mounted thereon and facing the non-hearing impaired user; and a control system including a vision-based active recognition module, a speech processing module having a text-to-speech module and a speech-to-text module, and a robot control and sign language generation module; wherein: the vision-based active recognition module receives a video signal from the 3D camera and compares gestures and facial expressions in the video signal to video databases to translate the gestures and facial expressions of the hearing impaired user to a translated text, wherein the translated text is displayed on the second display screen; the text-to-speech module receives the translated text from the vision-based active recognition module and synthesizes the translated text into synthesized speech; the synthesized speech is sent to the first and second speakers; the robot microphone receives an audio signal from the non-hearing impaired user and sends the audio signal to the speech-to-text module; the speech-to-text module segments any speech detected in the audio signal into speech segments; the segments are recognized as their corresponding phonemes by comparing the segments with a segment/phoneme speech database; the corresponding phonemes are concatenated into concatenated text; the concatenated text is sent to the robot control and sign language generation module; the robot control and sign language generation module controls: the first display screen to provide facial expressions associated with the concatenated text; and the first and the second servo controllers to provide at least hand and finger movements associated with the concatenated text.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.85106
- Patent Class: 434.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15034875', '12564084', '13824825', '12527389', '12984945']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.2859334239183571
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4759474673821164
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.304934828264733
- Mean Citation Score: 192.683402
- Max Citation Score: 204.34894
- Similarity Product: 158.3237493085504

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

Dataset: test