PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15933090
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["381", "074000"]

Abstract:
An earbud may have a housing with an ear portion and an elongated out-of-ear portion that protrudes away from the ear portion. A speaker may be aligned with a speaker port in the ear portion and may emit sound for a user. Audio playback functions and other operations may be controlled using a controller in the earbud. The controller may gather capacitive sensor data and other data and may use this data in identifying an operating mode of the earbud. Using information such as whether the earbud is in an in-ear state or an out-of-ear state or other sensor data, the controller may take actions such as pausing or resuming audio playback or adjusting playback volume. The capacitive sensor data can be gathered using capacitive sensing electrodes located on the ear portion and the stalk portion of the earbud.

Claim (Index 13):
The earbud defined in  claim 12  further comprising:\n wireless communications circuitry configured to receive audio data to play with the speaker; and \n a flexible printed circuit that conforms to an inner surface of the housing, wherein the out-of-ear capacitive sensing electrodes are formed on the flexible printed circuit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.02778
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15671376', '14856402', '14856344', '12499785', '14993548']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7052274676811
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.49706530834787
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6844112517477771
- Mean Citation Score: 224.064154
- Max Citation Score: 244.44511
- Similarity Product: 179.03665439950228

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