PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16435503
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-06
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["381", "310000"]

Abstract:
A method provides binaural sound to a person through electronic earphones. The binaural sound localizes to a sound localization point (SLP) in empty space that is away from but proximate to the person. When an event occurs, the binaural sound switches or changes to stereo sound, to mono sound, or to altered binaural sound.

Claim (Index 35):
A method comprising:\n storing head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) in a memory; processing, by a digital signal processor (DSP), sound with the HRTFs to produce binaural sound; playing, by speakers in headphones, the binaural sound to a user wearing the headphones; and switching, upon activation of a user-activated switch on the headphones, the sound from playing to both ears of the user as the binaural sound that externally localizes outside the head of the user to playing to both of the ears of the user the sound as stereo sound or mono sound that internally localizes inside the head of the user.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.55
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16401233', '16106140', '16401242', '15826721', '15674009']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7577412513901169
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5680937686998453
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7387765031210898
- Mean Citation Score: 402.238394
- Max Citation Score: 455.5804
- Similarity Product: 421.7272502085925

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