PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16152805
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["381", "086000"]

Abstract:
A Shipboard Auditory Sensor (SAS) for detection and classification of acoustic signaling at sea is capable of detecting whistles blasts from other vessels in accordance with Rules 34 and 35 of COLREGS to support autonomous operations in a maritime environment.

Claim (Index 9):
An auditory sensor system for processing audio signals from one or more surface maritime vessels in a vicinity of an autonomous maritime vessel to support autonomous navigation of the vessel, the auditory sensor comprising:\n an assembly of multiple microphones; a power filter connected to the assembly; and a data acquisition board in communication with the assembly, wherein one or more of the multiple microphones receives audio signals from one or more surface maritime vessels in a vicinity of the autonomous maritime vessel, wherein the received audio signals are filtered determined which audio signals are in a first predetermined auditory range which is indicative of a status of the one or more surface maritime vessels, the status being used to support autonomous navigation of the autonomous maritime vessel.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 16.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.10256
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15635106', '15007788', '15916839', '14968161', '10630620']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6645532718883037
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6124689907692507
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6593448437763983
- Mean Citation Score: 320.410478
- Max Citation Score: 534.73676
- Similarity Product: 501.83456972375154

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