PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15932368
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["381", "018000"]

Abstract:
The present technology relates to a sound processing apparatus and a sound processing system for enabling more stable localization of a sound image. A virtual speaker is assumed to exist on the lower side among the sides of a tetragon having its corners formed with four speakers surrounding a target sound image position on a spherical plane. Three-dimensional VBAP is performed with respect to the virtual speaker and the two speakers located at the upper right and the upper left, to calculate gains of the two speakers at the upper right and the upper left and the virtual speaker, the gains being to be used for fixing a sound image at the target sound image position. Further, two-dimensional VBAP is performed with respect to the lower right and lower left speakers, to calculate gains of the lower right and lower left speakers, the gains being to be used for fixing a sound image at the position of the virtual speaker. The values obtained by multiplying these gains by the gain of the virtual speaker are set as the gains of the lower right and lower left speakers for fixing a sound image at the target sound image position. The present technology can be applied to sound processing apparatuses.

Claim (Index 8):
A sound processing system comprising:\n at least four sound outputting units; a gain calculating unit configured to determine output gains of sounds to be output from the at least four sound outputting units located close to a sound image localization position as a target position by calculating gains of sounds to be output from the sound outputting units based on a positional relationship between the sound outputting units with respect to each of different combinations among a plurality of combinations of two or three of the at least four sound outputting units, the output gains being to be used for fixing a sound image at the sound image localization position; and a gain adjusting unit configured to perform gain adjustment on sounds to be output from the sound outputting units based on the output gains.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.92
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14785497', '14785416', '15591471', '15737026', '14905116']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7560033600127771
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6036069551694312
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7407637195284426
- Mean Citation Score: 395.27676
- Max Citation Score: 506.43723
- Similarity Product: 499.7409463925279

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

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