PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16521497
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-07
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["381", "071600"]

Abstract:
A user content audio signal is converted into sound that is delivered into an ear canal of a wearer of an in-ear speaker, while the in-ear speaker is sealing off the ear canal against ambient sound leakage. An acoustic or venting valve in the in-ear speaker is automatically signaled to open, so that sound inside the ear canal is allowed to travel out into an ambient environment through the valve, while activating conversion of an ambient content audio signal into sound for delivery into the ear canal. Both user content and ambient content are heard by the wearer. The ambient content audio signal is digitally processed so that certain frequency components have been gain adjusted, based on an equalization profile, so as to compensate for some of the insertion loss that is due to the in-ear speaker blocking the ear canal. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.

Claim (Index 7):
The insertable in-ear speaker of  claim 1 , wherein the ambient sound augmentation system includes an electro-acoustic transducer or speaker driver that is shared by the user content sound system, to convert the microphone audio signal and the user content audio signal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.975
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15000994', '15629552', '15010759', '12170171', '12110773']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7281064791817541
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6189309823830353
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7171889295018823
- Mean Citation Score: 372.85552
- Max Citation Score: 548.68036
- Similarity Product: 530.1950703522108

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