PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15863027
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["073", "646000"]

Abstract:
Systems, apparatus, and methods for collecting, interpreting, and utilizing noise exposure data may include sensors to obtain an analog signal representative of impulse noise sound pressure and an analog signal representative of continuous noise sound pressure. At least one ADC may generate digital signals by sampling the analog signals at rates equal to or greater than twice the reciprocal of a minimum impulse noise rise time. Accelerometers may obtain data in close proximity to and remote from the sensors. At least one processor may include a first combining node to combine the digital signals to represent both the continuous noise and the impulse noise, a shock-artifact detection filter to identify a time frame including a shock artifact based on the accelerometry data, a frequency filter to generate a background-removed audio signal, an adaptive filter to estimate the shock artifact, and a second combining node to produce a shock-artifact-free audio signal.

Claim (Index 16):
A system for continuously collecting sound pressure in an environment, the system comprising:\n a first sensor with a first sensitivity to obtain a first analog signal representative of sound pressure levels; a second sensor with a second sensitivity to obtain a second analog signal representative of sound pressure levels, the second sensitivity being lower than the first sensitivity; at least one analog-to-digital converter (ADC), operably coupled to the first sensor and the second sensor, to separately sample the first analog signal and the second analog signal, thereby generating a first digital signal and a second digital signal; at least one processor, operably coupled to the at least one ADC, to:\n perform gain matching between the first digital signal and the second digital signal to estimate gain; and \n combine the first digital signal and the second digital signal into a combined audio signal by at least one of:\n multiplexing between the second digital signal and a product of the first digital signal and the estimated gain based on signal amplitude; and \n generating a weighted sum of the first digital signal and the second digital signal based on signal-to-noise ratio.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0
- Patent Class: 73.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15252963', '14101802', '10564860', '12971653', '13491373']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7246930955393434
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5462774268432984
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7068515286697389
- Mean Citation Score: 300.99198
- Max Citation Score: 415.8398
- Similarity Product: 335.79688655073653

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

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