PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15880592
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["381", "092000"]

Abstract:
A sound pickup device includes a plurality of microphones, and at least one processor configured to implement stored instructions and execute a plurality of tasks, including: a first gain controlling task controlling a gain of each of the plurality of microphones, an adding task adding a sound signal to be output from the first gain controlling task with a predetermined gain, a second gain controlling task controlling a gain of the sound signal to be output from the adding task; and a gain setting task setting each gain of the first gain controlling task based on gain setting in the second gain controlling task.

Claim (Index 18):
The sound pickup method according to  claim 15 , further comprising the steps of:\n in the plurality of first housings,\n picking up each sound by the microphone provided in each of a plurality of first housings, and \n controlling a gain of the microphone provided in each of the plurality of first housings, in the first gain controller; and \n in a second housing,\n adding each sound signal that has been controlled in the first gain controller, in the adder, \n controlling a gain of the sound signal that has been added in the adder, in the second gain controller, and \n setting gain setting in the first gain controller based on gain setting in the second gain controller, in the gain setter.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.46667
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13219844', '12091406', '15603986', '10902127', '15503791']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.627973814406448
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4774492014142194
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6129213531072252
- Mean Citation Score: 144.45730199999997
- Max Citation Score: 155.61338999999995
- Similarity Product: 114.2197780007672

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