PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16329497
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["381", "073100"]

Abstract:
Embodiments of the present invention provide an in-vehicle privacy system, comprising audio output means ( 146, 147 ) associated with a first zone ( 110 ) of an interior of a vehicle ( 100 ), audio source means ( 250 ) for providing an audio signal ( 205 ) to the audio output means ( 146, 147 ), speech intelligibility means ( 310 ) for estimating a speech intelligibility in the first zone ( 110 ), control means arranged to control one or more properties of the audio signal ( 205 ) in dependence on the estimate of speech intelligibility to mask speech of a second occupant in a second zone ( 150 ) of the interior of the vehicle ( 100 ) from a first occupant with the first zone.

Claim (Index 25):
The method of  claim 20 , wherein one or both of the one or more properties of the audio signal are controlled to reduce the estimate of the speech intelligibility; and\n the controlling one or more properties of the audio signal comprises controlling a frequency distribution of the audio signal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 10.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.50909
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16156723', '14318720', '16016976', '15431029', '15926808']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6622210301131768
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4799479719035773
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6439937242922168
- Mean Citation Score: 164.438248
- Max Citation Score: 168.0125
- Similarity Product: 126.78215044662356

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

Dataset: test