PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16019432
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["381", "381000"]

Abstract:
An electronic device such as an earphone may have sensor circuitry. The sensor circuitry may include optical proximity sensors and capacitive sensor circuitry. An ear support structure such as an ear hook may be used to hold the earphone adjacent to an ear of a user. In this position, a speaker in the earphone may be used to present audio to the user. The ear hook may be formed from an insulating elastomeric polymer. A stainless steel wire or other bendable structural support member may be embedded within the elastomeric polymer. The bendable member may hold the ear hook in a desired bent shape after bending by the user. The capacitive sensor circuitry may include one or more capacitive sensor electrodes coupled to capacitance-to-digital converter circuitry. Control circuitry may activate the optical proximity sensors in response to detection of a capacitance to confirm that the earphone is being worn.

Claim (Index 9):
The earphone defined in  claim 1  further comprising a bendable wire in the bendable ear hook that forms at least part of the capacitive sensor electrode.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 6.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.03846
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13689567', '15285987', '15808733', '15396685', '15449404']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6947260001524674
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4975377342289113
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6750071735601119
- Mean Citation Score: 208.800516
- Max Citation Score: 224.01802
- Similarity Product: 149.1737579535961

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