PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15941361
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["381", "376000"]

Abstract:
A head-worn sound reproduction device is provided in the form of left and right earphones, which can either be clipped to each ear or mounted on other headgear. The earphones deliver high fidelity audio to a user's eardrums from near-ear range, in a lightweight form factor that is fully “non-blocking” (allows coupling in and natural hearing of ambient sound). Each earphone has a woofer component that produces bass frequencies, and a tweeter component that produces treble frequencies. The woofer outputs the bass frequencies from a position close to the ear canal, while the tweeter outputs treble frequencies from a position that is either close to the ear canal or further away. In certain embodiments, the tweeter is significantly further from the ear canal than the woofer, leading to a more expansive perceived “sound stage”, but still with a “pure” listening experience.

Claim (Index 18):
A sound reproduction system comprising\n a head-wearable device including:\n a first speaker component; \n a second speaker component; \n a support structure configured for supporting the first speaker component proximate a user's ear and for moveably supporting the second speaker component, such that the second speaker component can be moved from, at least, a first position spaced by a first distance from the first speaker component to a second position spaced by a second distance from the second speaker component, wherein the second distance exceeds the first distance; \n a sensor for sensing the position of the speaker and outputting a position indicating signal; and \n input circuitry having at least one input for receiving an input audio signal, a first output coupled to the first speaker component, a second output coupled to the second speaker component, the input circuitry is configured to provide a first output audio signal at the first output and a second output signal at the second output, a signal processing circuit interposed between the at least one input and the second output for processing the input audio signal to produce the second output signal, the signal processing circuit drivingly coupled to second speaker component and coupled to the sensor wherein the signal processing circuit is configured to delay the second output signal relative to the first output signal by a delay amount that depends on the position indicating signal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.82022
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12195411', '15522699', '14009079', '12040616', '13253768']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7103892491562043
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5082571157497362
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6901760358155575
- Mean Citation Score: 254.09002400000003
- Max Citation Score: 289.7402
- Similarity Product: 215.02407758746148

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