PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16521497
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-07
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["381", "071600"]

Abstract:
A user content audio signal is converted into sound that is delivered into an ear canal of a wearer of an in-ear speaker, while the in-ear speaker is sealing off the ear canal against ambient sound leakage. An acoustic or venting valve in the in-ear speaker is automatically signaled to open, so that sound inside the ear canal is allowed to travel out into an ambient environment through the valve, while activating conversion of an ambient content audio signal into sound for delivery into the ear canal. Both user content and ambient content are heard by the wearer. The ambient content audio signal is digitally processed so that certain frequency components have been gain adjusted, based on an equalization profile, so as to compensate for some of the insertion loss that is due to the in-ear speaker blocking the ear canal. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.

Claim (Index 1):
An insertable in-ear speaker configured as a hybrid transparency system, the insertable in-ear speaker comprising:\n a user content sound system to receive a user content audio signal, being a recorded audio program signal or a downlink audio signal of a phone call, and convert the user content audio signal into sound for delivery into an ear in which the in-ear speaker has been inserted; an ambient sound augmentation system having an external microphone which is configured to pick up sound in the ambient environment of the in-ear speaker, as a microphone audio signal, wherein the system can be configured to be i) activated to process the microphone audio signal before converting the microphone audio signal into sound for delivery into the ear, and ii) deactivated to not convert the microphone audio signal into sound; a valve that can be configured between i) an open state in which it allows sound inside the ear to travel out into the ambient environment and ii) a closed state in which it restricts the sound inside the ear from traveling out into the ambient environment; and logic to signal the valve into the open state while activating the sound augmentation system, and then signal the valve into the closed state while deactivating the sound augmentation system.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.975
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15000994', '15629552', '15010759', '12170171', '12110773']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7037775185209583
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6172393116608765
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6951236978349501
- Mean Citation Score: 372.85552
- Max Citation Score: 548.68036
- Similarity Product: 532.2180680717896

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