PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16078563
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["381", "092000"]

Abstract:
A method of processing a series of microphone inputs of an audio conference, the method including the steps of: (a) conducting a spatial analysis and feature extraction of the audio conference based on current audio activity; (b) aggregating historical information to obtain information about the approximate relative location of recent sound objects relative to the series of microphone inputs; (c) utilising the relative location or distance of the sound objects from the series of microphone inputs to determine if beam forming should be utilised to enhance the audio reception from recent sound objects.

Claim (Index 6):
A method of processing a series of microphone inputs of an audio conference, each microphone input being captured by a respective one among an array of microphones, the method including the steps of:\n (a) conducting a spatial analysis and feature extraction of the series of microphone inputs of the audio conference based on current audio activity to obtain information about the approximate relative location of currently active sound objects relative to the array of microphones; (b) aggregating the information about the approximate relative location of currently active sound objects relative to the array of microphones over time to obtain information about recent sound objects in terms of their optimal microphone beam characteristics and their degree of direct to reverb ratio or coherence; and (c) adjusting, based on the information about the recent sound objects, an optimal microphone beam for an active sound object in such a way as to reduce a suppression of sound capture of currently inactive sound objects in case that they become active, wherein the optimal microphone beam for the active sound object is adjusted so as to avoid a null or suppression above a given threshold for currently inactive sound objects that are likely to become active.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.82456
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15217904', '11252188', '15181127', '12488114', '15643074']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7125531913406228
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4943237701182747
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.690730249218388
- Mean Citation Score: 214.44957400000004
- Max Citation Score: 220.76712
- Similarity Product: 172.78376672417164

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