PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15870536
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["345", "419000"]

Abstract:
While a virtual reality environment is being presented to a user, at least a first sound in a real world environment in which the user physically is located can be detected. a nature of the first sound can be determined. Based on the nature of the first sound, a second sound that matches a theme of the virtual reality environment can be selected. The first sound can be masked by presenting the second sound to the user in the virtual reality environment.

Claim (Index 1):
A method, comprising:\n while a virtual reality environment is being presented to a user, detecting at least a first sound emanating from a physical object in a real world environment in which the user physically is located, wherein spatial coordinates of a spatial location of the physical object in the real world environment are moving over time; determining, using a processor, a nature of the first sound; and based on the nature of the first sound, selecting a second sound that matches a theme of the virtual reality environment and masking the first sound by presenting the second sound to the user in the virtual reality environment, the presenting the second sound comprising mimicking movement of the physical object in the real world environment by producing audio stereo imaging effects that cause the user to perceive the second sound as being emanated at the spatial location of the physical object and spatially move over time in a direction, relative to the user, the physical object is moving by selectively controlling a volume of the second sound across a plurality of audio channels.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.2
- Patent Class: 345.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15461435', '15385792', '14706891', '14724360', '14690296']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6257924766786988
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4823477387526094
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6114480028860899
- Mean Citation Score: 195.144274
- Max Citation Score: 201.59824
- Similarity Product: 147.93795426310538

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

Dataset: test