PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16017619
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["381", "092000"]

Abstract:
Offset cartridge microphones are provided that include multiple unidirectional microphone cartridges mounted in an offset geometry. Various desired polar patterns and/or desired steering angles can be formed by processing the audio signals from the multiple cartridges, including a toroidal polar pattern. The offset geometry of the cartridges may include mounting the cartridges so that they are immediately adjacent to one another and so that their center axes are offset from one another. The microphones may have a more consistent on-axis frequency response and may more uniformly form desired polar patterns and/or desired steering angles by reducing the interference and reflections within and between the cartridges.

Claim (Index 20):
A method of processing respective audio signals from a plurality of unidirectional microphone cartridges into an audio output signal corresponding to a toroidal polar pattern, using a processor, the method comprising:\n receiving an audio signal at the processor from each of the plurality of unidirectional microphone cartridges, wherein each of the plurality of unidirectional microphone cartridges is immediately adjacent to one another and wherein a center axis of each of the plurality of unidirectional microphone cartridges is offset from the center axis of at least one other of the plurality of unidirectional microphone cartridges; delaying a first bidirectional pattern signal to produce a delayed first bidirectional pattern signal, using the processor, wherein the first bidirectional pattern signal is produced based on the audio signals of the plurality of unidirectional microphone cartridges; phase shifting a second bidirectional pattern signal by 90 degrees to produce a phase shifted second bidirectional pattern signal, using the processor, wherein the second bidirectional pattern signal is produced based on the audio signals of the plurality of unidirectional microphone cartridges; and summing the delayed first bidirectional pattern signal and the phase shifted second bidirectional pattern signal to produce the audio output signal, using the processor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.66667
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15383658', '14701042', '09854304', '09854172', '11156954']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7137611686293008
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5597929286021336
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6983643446265841
- Mean Citation Score: 298.388318
- Max Citation Score: 456.78003
- Similarity Product: 347.8052673744822

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

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