PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16256877
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["381", "300000"]

Abstract:
A signal processing apparatus that generates a reproducing signal from an input audio signal includes an information acquisition unit that acquires information about an arrangement of a plurality of speakers used for reproduction of a sound that is based on the reproducing signal, a specifying unit that specifies a target range for localization of a sound corresponding to the input audio signal, a setting unit that sets a plurality of virtual sound sources used for localization of a sound based on the specified target range based on the acquired information about the arrangement of the plurality of speakers, and a generation unit that generates the reproducing signal by processing the input audio signal based on setting of the plurality of virtual sound sources.

Claim (Index 8):
The signal processing apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein the specifying unit specifies the target range based on one or more of information representing a direction corresponding to the target range or information representing an area corresponding to the target range.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 6.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.64583
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12628317', '13427348', '11180568', '11641067', '14428227']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.708276204607682
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4814317380871465
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6855917579556285
- Mean Citation Score: 176.131862
- Max Citation Score: 183.89372
- Similarity Product: 133.96765076851844

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

Dataset: test