PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15957164
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["381", "315000"]

Abstract:
The disclosure relates to binaural hearing instruments and more particularly to reduction of processing time required in a binaural hearing aid system. According to the disclosure, there is provided a method comprising mono-directional transmission of data blocks comprising audio and/or information frames from one hearing instrument to the other hearing instrument or vice versa in a binaural hearing aid. According to the disclosure, the direction of transmission is determined by a quantity characterizing the presence of usable information content in the sound signal picked up by the hearing instruments of the binaural hearing aid. It is proposed to use one or more of local SNR, local voice activity detection indication, local level, local speech intelligibility estimate to determine the direction of transmission, although other quantities may be used.

Claim (Index 10):
A method for selecting a transmission direction in a binaural hearing aid system comprising two hearing aids, the method comprising\n at a first hearing aid, picking up a sound signal by one or more input transducers of the first hearing aid; at a second hearing aid, picking up the sound signal by one or more input transducers of the second hearing aid; at the first hearing aid, determining a first quantity characterizing the presence of usable information content in the sound signal picked up by the one or more input transducers of the first hearing aid; at the second hearing aid, determining a second quantity characterizing the presence of usable information content in the sound signal picked up by the one or more input transducers of the second hearing aid, the second quantity being comparable to the first quantity; comparing the first quantity with the second quantity; and based on the determined first quantity and/or second quantity and/or the compared first quantity and second quantity, determining the transmission direction for transmitting audio information between the first hearing aid and the second hearing aid, wherein data packets or blocks comprising usable information are exchanged binaurally prior to transmission of associated audio information comprised in data packets or blocks, the data packets or blocks comprising the usable information being of shorter duration than data packets or blocks comprising the associated audio information.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.86486
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15204753', '15457694', '13592100', '13901922', '15895266']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6653320734501537
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6192018965636763
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6607190557615059
- Mean Citation Score: 329.248124
- Max Citation Score: 543.54535
- Similarity Product: 523.1009601349175

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

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