PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16182800
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["381", "380000"]

Abstract:
Presented here is an apparatus and method to increase a listener's enjoyment of sound by combining in-ear headphones with either over-ear headphones or on-ear headphones. One embodiment is headphones that include an ear-cup with an ear-bud protruding toward the listener's ear-canal. The ear-cup substantially surrounds the listener's ear and delivers sub sonic and low-frequency vibrations to the listener's skin stimulating a vibrotactile response. The ear-bud is disposed within the listener's ear canal and delivers a full range of audible frequencies. Additionally, the headphones, along with the ear-cup in the ear-bud, provide both passive and active noise cancellation.

Claim (Index 17):
A system comprising:\n an ear-cup configured to be placed on or around a user's ear and to attenuate ambient sound reaching a user's ear canal, the ear-cup comprising:\n a first speaker to emit a first range of frequencies; \n a first acoustic chamber to deliver the first range of frequencies to a user, the first acoustic chamber configured to be disposed on or around the user's ear; \n an ear-bud configured to be placed within or at an entrance of the user's ear canal and to attenuate the ambient sound and the first range of frequencies reaching the user's ear canal, the ear-bud comprising:\n a second speaker to emit a second range of frequencies; \n a second acoustic chamber to deliver the second range of frequencies to the user through acoustic stimulation of the user's ear canal; and \n a flexible attachment between the ear-bud and the ear-cup, the flexible attachment to automatically adjust a position of the ear-bud proximate the user's ear canal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 46.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.69231
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15398282', '13253768', '14523000', '13772650', '16117132']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6932862161063044
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5714173642032334
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6810993309159973
- Mean Citation Score: 272.6727
- Max Citation Score: 469.0816
- Similarity Product: 401.9357694885254

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

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