PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15926808
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["704", "205000"]

Abstract:
Provided are methods and systems for improving the intelligibility of speech in a noisy environment. A communication model is developed that includes noise inherent in the message production and message interpretation processes, and considers that these noises have fixed signal-to-noise ratios. The communication model forms the basis of an algorithm designed to optimize the intelligibility of speech in a noisy environment. The intelligibility optimization algorithm only does something (e.g., manipulates the audio signal) when needed, and thus if no noise is present the algorithm does not alter or otherwise interfere with the audio signals, thereby preventing any speech distortion. The algorithm is also very fast and efficient in comparison to most existing approaches for speech intelligibility enhancement, and therefore the algorithm lends itself to easy implementation in an appropriate device (e.g., cellular phone or smartphone).

Claim (Index 11):
The system of  claim 9 , wherein the production noise is associated with production, by the first user, of the speech contained in the transmitted audio signal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.64835
- Patent Class: 704.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14249870', '14466565', '15457694', '13045303', '12464624']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3072090548174072
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5910850634545298
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3355966556811195
- Mean Citation Score: 315.33121000000006
- Max Citation Score: 588.91925
- Similarity Product: 411.8164482239187

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