PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16102650
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["381", "092000"]

Abstract:
Systems and methods for three-dimensional beamforming disclosed herein include, among other features (i) generating a set of received-sound beams by applying a plurality of sets of beamforming coefficients stored in a tangible memory of the network device to sound received via a microphone array of the network device, wherein each received-sound beam corresponds to a separate direction relative to the microphone array, (ii) identifying a subset of the received-sound beams comprising speech content, (iii) for each received-sound beam in the subset of the received-sound beams comprising speech content, determining whether the speech content comprises a wake word, (iv) selecting one final received-sound beam from the received-sound beams in the subset of the received-sound beams determined to comprise a wake word; and (v) causing the selected one final received-sound beam to be processed to identify a voice command.

Claim (Index 1):
A networked microphone device comprising:\n one or more processors; a microphone array; and tangible, non-transitory computer-readable media comprising instructions encoded therein, wherein the instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the networked microphone device to perform a method comprising: identifying a subset of received-sound beams from a set of two or more received-sound beams, wherein each received-sound beam comprises speech content likely including a wake word received via the microphone array, and wherein each received-sound beam corresponds to a separate direction relative to the microphone array; selecting at least one final received-sound beam from the subset of the received-sound beams, and processing the selected at least one final received-sound beam to identify a voice command; and in response to identifying the voice command, causing the identified voice command to be implemented by the networked microphone device.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.03947
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15719454', '16102153', '15699982', '15634158', '14531798']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6340008101835154
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5643760591202835
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6270383350771923
- Mean Citation Score: 241.776642
- Max Citation Score: 427.3993
- Similarity Product: 389.54237916343806

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

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