PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15977498
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["381", "380000"]

Abstract:
Aspects of the present disclosure provide an electro-acoustic transducer that serves as an acoustic transducer and as an NFMI coil. The use of a single coil eliminates the need for a dedicated NFMI coil, thereby reducing design complexity and cost of production. Circuity is provided to allow selective filtering of acoustic and NFMI signals so the acoustic and NFMI signals may coexist in a frequency-divisional multiplexing fashion on a same electro-acoustic transducer coil.

Claim (Index 13):
A method for outputting audio signals by an apparatus comprising:\n receiving audio signals from an audio source device at a first earpiece of the apparatus; converting the audio signals to near field magnetic induction (NFMI) signals; transmitting the NFMI signals, by the first earpiece to a second earpiece of the apparatus via NFMI coupling of a first electro-acoustic transducer at the first earpiece and a second electro-acoustic transducer at the second earpiece; and processing the audio signals at the first earpiece and the NFMI signals at the second earpiece to produce representations of the audio signals for output at each of the first and second earpieces, wherein the processing at the first earpiece comprises:\n converting the received audio signals to analog audio signals for output by the first electro-acoustic transducer; and \n selectively filtering the analog audio signals and the NFMI signals so the analog audio signals and the NFMI signals coexist on a coil of the first electro-acoustic transducer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.57143
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15185970', '15173138', '15941331', '15225406', '15185929']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6944206145676836
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4894570687338936
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6739242599843046
- Mean Citation Score: 212.592544
- Max Citation Score: 238.74936
- Similarity Product: 186.36116437122345

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

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