PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15890185
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["381", "317000"]

Abstract:
A processor comprises instructions to adjust a bias of an input signal in order to decrease a duty cycle of a pulse modulated optical signal. The bias can be increased, decreased, or maintained in response to one or more measured values of the signal. In many embodiments, a gain of the signal is adjusted with the bias in order to inhibit distortion. The bias can be adjusted slowly in order to inhibit audible noise, and the gain can be adjusted faster than the bias in order to inhibit clipping of the signal. In many embodiments, one or more of the bias or the gain is adjusted in response to a value of the signal traversing a threshold amount. The value may comprise a trough of the signal traversing the threshold.

Claim (Index 1):
A hearing apparatus to transmit an audio signal to an ear of a user with light,\n comprising: an input to receive the audio signal; a light source to generate an optical signal; an output transducer to receive the optical signal from the light source; and a processor coupled to the input, the processor configured with instructions to receive the audio signal,\n determine a bias of the audio signal and a biased audio signal in response to the audio signal, and \n output the biased audio signal to circuitry to drive the light source with the biased signal in order to decrease light energy of the optical signal transmitted from the light source.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 38.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.43103
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14813301', '13678889', '14339746', '12486100', '15411880']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6484893481804705
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.546039622909607
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6382443756533842
- Mean Citation Score: 241.94632400000003
- Max Citation Score: 384.86157
- Similarity Product: 364.8749018148064

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