PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15899522
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["348", "231400"]

Abstract:
A sound signal processing apparatus includes: first amplifier which amplifies a sound signal, depending on an input level of the sound signal; and second amplifier which amplifies with a gain the sound signal amplified by first amplifier. Second amplifier automatically decreases the gain when a level of the sound signal is greater than an upper limit threshold, and second amplifier automatically increases the gain when the level of the sound signal is lower than the upper limit threshold and when the gain is lower than a predetermined value. When second amplifier increases the gain, second amplifier changes the gain at a first speed when a user has performed an operation to decrease the input level, and second amplifier changes the gain at a second speed lower than the first speed when the user has not performed the operation to decrease the input level.

Claim (Index 6):
An imaging device which images a subject to generate image data, the imaging device comprising:\n a microphone which receives a sound to generate the sound signal; and the sound signal processing apparatus according to  claim 3 , which processes the sound signal generated by the microphone.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.86792
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['09935510', '13842428', '12926946', '12733991', '12687329']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5473803919610214
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4963978663545794
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5422821394003772
- Mean Citation Score: 159.880154
- Max Citation Score: 164.61198000000005
- Similarity Product: 102.77249903136492

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

Dataset: test