PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15939505
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["381", "313000"]

Abstract:
Mechanisms are provided to implement an echolocation functionality within a virtual environment. The mechanisms receive graphical information for a virtual environment, and analyzes the graphical information to detect a virtual object present in the virtual environment. One or more characteristics of the detected virtual object are identified, which may include a relative location of the virtual object to a virtual representation of a user in the virtual environment. Echo data is generated that defines characteristics of an audio output that represents the virtual object in a manner emulating an echo of a sound emitted from the virtual representation of the user in the virtual environment. Output of the audio output by the one or more audio output devices is controlled based on the generated echo data.

Claim (Index 1):
A method, in a data processing system comprising a memory configured with instructions for execution by a processor of the data processing system to configure the processor to implement an echolocation engine, the method comprising:\n receiving, by the echolocation engine executing on the data processing system, graphical information for a virtual environment; analyzing, by the echolocation engine, the graphical information to detect a virtual object present in the virtual environment; identifying, by the echolocation engine, one or more first characteristics of the detected virtual object, wherein the one or more first characteristics comprise a relative location of the virtual object to a virtual representation of a user in the virtual environment and a shape identifying characteristic of the virtual object; matching, by the echolocation engine, the shape identifying characteristic of the virtual object to an object model in an object database, and retrieving at least one second characteristic of the virtual object, different from the one or more first characteristics, based on the matched object model; generating, by the echolocation engine based on the one or more first characteristics and the at least one second characteristic of the virtual object, echo data defining characteristics of an audio output that represents the virtual object in a manner emulating an echo of a sound emitted from the virtual representation of the user in the virtual environment, wherein the characteristics of the audio output comprise an identification of one or more audio output devices to output the audio output based on the relative location of the virtual object to the virtual representation of the user; and controlling, by the echolocation engine, output of the audio output by the one or more audio output devices based on the generated echo data.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 21.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.11111
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13803731', '11372327', '15491897', '14002218', '12144295']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6503432581503251
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4674588081395509
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6320548131492476
- Mean Citation Score: 168.27659599999996
- Max Citation Score: 173.43724
- Similarity Product: 138.84252292330982

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

Dataset: test