PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15744761
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["381", "303000"]

Abstract:
In one embodiment of the present invention, a central communications controller creates customized hearing experiences without unnecessarily encumbering listeners. In operation, for each listener, the central communications controller selects distracting and/or confidential sounds and generates a cancellation signal that substantially attenuates (i.e., “cancels out”) the selected sounds without corrupting remaining sounds. To selectively filter the sounds for a listener, the central communications controller leverages one or more highly directional loudspeakers to deliver the cancellation signal directly to the ears corresponding to the listener. More specifically, for a given ear, the central communications controller transmits the cancellation signal to a highly direction loudspeaker that targets the location of the ear. In this fashion, the central communications controller provides a listener-customized listening experience—selectively cancelling sounds at Identify sounds to be suppressed and generate ears—without relying on constraining sound delivery systems such as headphones, in-ear auditory devices, and the like.

Claim (Index 17):
The non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium of  claim 16 , further comprising:\n selecting a second highly directional loudspeaker included in a plurality of highly directional loudspeakers based on a location of a second ear of a different person; and transmitting the third auditory signal to the second highly directional loudspeaker, wherein the second highly directional loudspeaker is configured to generate an output directed towards the second ear of the different person based on the third auditory signal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.72917
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14483044', '14148689', '12034404', '14808967', '10490591']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6788881369131357
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4865576927819083
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.659655092500013
- Mean Citation Score: 180.22281200000003
- Max Citation Score: 234.90347000000003
- Similarity Product: 188.13103469998185

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