PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16000876
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["381", "092000"]

Abstract:
A sound collecting apparatus capable of effectively suppressing sounds other than a target sound is provided. The sound collecting apparatus includes a plurality of microphones. A total number of effective microphone pairs in which a distance between two microphones is smaller than a distance D is larger than a total number of the plurality of microphones. The distance D is represented by D=c/2f, where the frequency of the target sound acquired from each of the plurality of microphones is f and sound velocity is c. When an angle formed by a straight line connecting two microphones configuring an effective microphone pair and a predetermined straight line is θ, the angles θ of all effective microphone pairs acquired from the plurality of microphones are different from each other.

Claim (Index 4):
The sound collecting apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein\n sensitivity characteristics of a plurality of signals acquired from all of the plurality of effective microphone pairs acquired from the plurality of microphones do not overlap in an angle range equal to or smaller than a predetermined value.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.14516
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11990200', '12093849', '12037426', '12661635', '14572941']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7040236518926118
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4703154609552942
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6806528327988801
- Mean Citation Score: 151.721266
- Max Citation Score: 155.54765
- Similarity Product: 116.18556163305044

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

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