PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15746030
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["381", "092000"]

Abstract:
There is provided a clip-on microphone assembly comprising a clip-on mechanism ( 16 ) for attaching the microphone assembly ( 10 ) to the cloths of a user ( 11 ); at least three microphones ( 20, 21, 22 ) for capturing audio signals from the user's voice, the microphones defining a microphone plane; an acceleration sensor ( 32 ) for generating an orientation signal by sensing gravitational acceleration in at least two orthogonal dimensions, an audio signal processing unit ( 34 ) for producing an output audio signal ( 36 ) from the captured audio signals, comprising a beamformer unit ( 24 ) for processing the captured audio signals, in order to generate the output audio signal, in a manner so as to create an acoustic beam having a direction, a DOA unit ( 30 ) for determining the direction of arrival of sound by analyzing the captured audio signals; and a control unit ( 26 ) for controlling the beamforming unit, the control unit being adapted to determine an allowed angular sector ( 40 ) of the direction of the acoustic beam according to the orientation signal and to steer the direction of the acoustic beam within the allowed angular sector according to the determined direction of arrival.

Claim (Index 44):
The method of  claim 43 , the method further comprising:\n transmitting wirelessly the output signal to a hearing device, wherein the three microphones are distributed on a circle, and wherein an angle between adjacent microphones is between 90 to 180 degrees.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.38298
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12599676', '14783691', '15042944', '15545301', '15792434']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7157050699374377
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5114228011263807
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.695276843056332
- Mean Citation Score: 266.557612
- Max Citation Score: 282.31882
- Similarity Product: 186.77162916691543

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

Dataset: test