PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15860489
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["381", "310000"]

Abstract:
A headphone arrangement is configured to induce natural directional pinna cues. The arrangement comprises an ear cup comprising a frame configured to at least partly encircle the ear of a user, wherein the frame is at least partially hollow. The arrangement further comprises a loudspeaker arranged within a wall of a frontal part, a rear part, an upper part, and/or a lower part of the frame, the loudspeaker comprising a membrane, a first side of the membrane facing a cavity inside the frame, and a second side of the membrane facing the outside. At least one loudspeaker is arranged at a first angle with respect to a median plane crossing a user's head midway between the user's ears such that a main direction of sound propagation is directed away from the median plane, and the second side of the membrane is directed away from the median plane.

Claim (Index 1):
A headphone arrangement that is configured to induce natural directional pinna cues, the arrangement comprising:\n at least one ear cup comprising a frame that is configured to be arranged to at least partly encircle the ear of a user, thereby defining an open volume around the ear of the user, wherein the frame is at least partially hollow, thereby providing at least one cavity on its inside that is separated from the outside by at least one wall of the frame; at least one loudspeaker arranged within a wall of at least one of a frontal part, a rear part, an upper part, and a lower part of the frame of the ear cup, wherein the at least one loudspeaker comprises a membrane and wherein a first side of the membrane faces a cavity inside the frame and a second side of the membrane faces the outside and wherein, when the at least one ear cup is arranged to encircle the ear of the user, at least one of the at least one loudspeaker is arranged at a first angle (\u03b1, \u03b4) with respect to a median plane such that at least one of:\n its main direction of sound propagation is directed away from the median plane; and \n the second side of the membrane is directed away from the median plane; wherein\n the median plane crosses the user's head midway between the user's ears, thereby virtually dividing the head into an essentially mirror-symmetrical left half side and right half side, \n a horizontal plane virtually divides the frame of the ear cup into an upper and a lower part, \n a frontal plane virtually divides the frame of the ear cup into a frontal part and a rear part, \n the frontal plane is perpendicular to the horizontal plane, \n the frontal plane and the horizontal plane intersect along a first axis (x), and \n the first axis (x) is perpendicular to the median plane and runs through the concha of the user when the at least one ear cup is arranged to encircle the ear of the user.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.20548
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15860468', '15860451', '14009079', '11909459', '15123934']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6934681234975771
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5187544521505022
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6759967563628697
- Mean Citation Score: 246.69395
- Max Citation Score: 322.1280799999999
- Similarity Product: 237.63372634384152

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

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