PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15952920
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["381", "092000"]

Abstract:
Various aspects include approaches for intelligent acoustic beam steering. In some implementations, a method of controlling a microphone array in a speaker system is disclosed. In other implementations, a speaker system is disclosed. In particular aspects, a computer-implemented method of controlling a microphone array includes: generating an acoustic map including an acoustic description of a physical environment proximate the speaker system; and focusing the microphone array in a direction based upon the acoustic map prior to receiving a voice command input at the microphone array.

Claim (Index 2):
The computer-implemented method of  claim 1 , wherein generating the acoustic map comprises an initial mapping period, an advanced mapping period, and a continuing mapping period,\n wherein the initial mapping period comprises:\n sending a set of test acoustic signals into the physical environment from a transducer in the speaker system; \n receiving a set of return acoustic signals from the physical environment at the microphone array; and \n characterizing at least one zone in the physical environment based upon a difference between the set of test acoustic signals and the set of return acoustic signals, \n wherein the advanced mapping period comprises:\n receiving a set of acoustic signals from the physical environment at the microphone array over a period; and \n characterizing at least one additional zone in the physical environment or re-characterizing the at least one zone in the physical environment, based upon the set of acoustic signals received over the period, and \n wherein the continuing mapping period comprises:\n continually receiving a set of acoustic signals from the physical environment at the microphone array; and \n re-characterizing the at least one additional zone or the at least one zone in the physical environment based upon the set of acoustic signals continually received during the continuing mapping period.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.80769
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14935060', '15687961', '13361353', '12690827', '13833867']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7099643634373475
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4722674566901264
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6861946727626254
- Mean Citation Score: 165.94222
- Max Citation Score: 172.05334
- Similarity Product: 131.5665219804752

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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