PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16110274
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["381", "058000"]

Abstract:
An acoustic system comprises an operation condition determination part for determining an operation condition of an operating element for controlling sound volume of a sound reproduction device which reproduces sounds from a plurality of sound sources, and a control part for changing a control object of the sound volume by the operating element in accordance with the sound source which is reproduced by the sound reproduction device, based on the operation condition determined by the operation condition determination part. The control part prohibits switching of the control object of the sound volume by operation of the operating element even when the sound source to be reproduced has been changed while it is determined by the operation condition determination part that the operation of the operating element is continuously performed.

Claim (Index 7):
A volume adjustment method for an acoustic system which comprises: a sound reproduction device configured to reproduce sounds from a plurality of sound sources; an operating element operable by an operator to set a sound volume of the sounds reproduced from the sound reproduction device for performing sound volume control; an operation condition determinator configured to determine an operation condition of the operating element as to whether or not the operating element is operated by the operator; and a controller configured to change a control object for the sound volume control by the operating element to be applied to any one of the sounds, in accordance with selection of the sound source to be reproduced by the sound reproduction device, and based on the operation condition determined by the operation condition determinator, the method comprising:\n prohibiting the changing of the control object for the sound volume control between the sounds when it is determined by the operation condition determinator that the operating element is continuously operated by the operator even when the selection of the sound source is changed.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.2931
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13917215', '13868421', '13423824', '15661370', '14849475']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6862209683526842
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4527817548351072
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6628770470009265
- Mean Citation Score: 149.279446
- Max Citation Score: 157.87576
- Similarity Product: 132.798266035285

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

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