PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15738408
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["381", "063000"]

Abstract:
Method in which, primarily in listening rooms, instead of the particular environment's own spatial sound, the spatial sound of a third room may be given an enveloping quality in the perception of the listener. The third room spatial acoustics perceived instead of the listening room spatial acoustics act in the same way in terms of hearing physiology as the spatial acoustics of natural rooms. That is, enveloping in terms of the spatial sound (in a distinction from direct sound). This type of spatial enveloping effect may also be incorporated emotionally by the listener into the auditory event, and has no “sweet spot” problem (there is a large preferred listening area instead of a preferred listening spot) and allows low frequencies to act in such a way that use of subwoofer speakers may generally be dispensed with.

Claim (Index 20):
A method for sound reproduction in a listening room having at least one speaker arrangement of a group made up of a first speaker arrangement and a second speaker arrangement, the method comprising:\n a.) in playback situations, aa.) audio signals from a first speaker arrangement are emitted essentially directionally in relation to a listening position, wherein ab.) the audio signals and spatial sound signals that are originally independent of the listening room and that contain the spatial sound information of one or more real or virtual spaces are emitted essentially nondirectionally in relation to the listening position via a second speaker arrangement, and the spatial sound information of the spatial sound signals has an origin that is independent of the audio signals; or b.) in live situations, ba.) live signals are emitted into the room, and bb.) either bba.) spatial sound signals that are independent of the listening room and that contain the spatial sound information of one or more real or virtual spaces, or bbb.) spatial sound signals that are independent of the listening room and that contain the spatial sound information of one or more real or virtual spaces, and audio signals corresponding to the live signals are emitted essentially nondirectionally in relation to the listening position via the second speaker arrangement, and the spatial sound information of the spatial sound signals has an origin that is independent of the audio signals corresponding to the live signals; or b.) in live situations, either ca.) spatial sound signals that are independent of the listening room and that contain the spatial sound information of a real or a virtual space of real or virtual rooms, or cb.) spatial sound signals that are independent of the listening room and that contain the spatial sound information of a real or a virtual space of real or virtual rooms, and audio signals corresponding to the live signals are emitted essentially nondirectionally in relation to the listening position via the second speaker arrangement, and spatial sound information of the spatial sound signals has an origin that is independent of the audio signals corresponding to the live signals; or d.) in playback situations, da.) audio signals from a first speaker arrangement are emitted essentially directionally in relation to a listening position, wherein db.) the audio signals and spatial sound signals that are originally independent of the listening room are emitted essentially nondirectionally in relation to the listening position via a second speaker arrangement, and characterized in that spatial sound information of the spatial sound signals has an origin that is independent of the audio signals; or e.) in live situations, ea.) live signals are emitted into the room and eb.) either eba.) spatial sound signals that are independent of the listening room or ebb.) spatial sound signals that are independent of the listening room and audio signals corresponding to the live signals are emitted essentially nondirectionally in relation to the listening position via the second speaker arrangement, and the spatial sound information of the spatial sound signals has an origin that is independent of the audio signals corresponding to the live signals, or f.) in live situations, either fa.) spatial sound signals that are independent of the listening room and that contain the spatial sound information of a real or a virtual space of real or virtual rooms, or fb.) spatial sound signals that are independent of the listening room and that contain the spatial sound information of a real or a virtual space of real or virtual rooms, and audio signals corresponding to the live signals are emitted essentially nondirectionally in relation to the listening position via the second speaker arrangement, and spatial sound information of the spatial sound signals has an origin that is independent of the audio signals corresponding to the live signals.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 56.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.9
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14214402', '15362017', '14421798', '09552378', '10220969']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6985955906703175
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4761220518807115
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6763482367913569
- Mean Citation Score: 202.49034
- Max Citation Score: 210.3576
- Similarity Product: 169.9344538822174

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

Dataset: test