PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16020932
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["381", "110000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to microphone apparatus. One microphone apparatus includes an acoustic sensor, an electrical circuit including an acoustic activity detector, a frequency detection circuit and a control block, an internal clock signal generator coupled to the electrical circuit, and a host interface with external connections including a connection for an external clock signal and data. The microphone assembly has an acoustic activity detection mode of operation when the electrical circuit is clocked using the internal clock signal generator in the absence of an external clock signal at the host interface, and the electrical circuit is configured to provide an interrupt signal to the host interface upon detection of acoustic activity by the electrical circuit. The electrical circuit is configured to control the operating mode of the microphone assembly based on a frequency of the external clock signal in response to providing the interrupt signal and is configured to provide data representing the electrical signal to the host interface using the external clock signal received at the host interface.

Claim (Index 14):
A microphone apparatus comprising:\n an acoustic sensor; an electrical circuit having an input coupled to an output of the acoustic sensor, the electrical circuit including an acoustic activity detector and a frequency determination circuit; an internal clock signal generator coupled to the electrical circuit; a host interface with external connections coupled to the electrical circuit, the host interface including a connection for an external clock signal and data; the acoustic activity detector configured to process, in an acoustic activity detection mode, data representing an electrical signal output by the acoustic sensor for acoustic activity when the electrical circuit is clocked by a clock signal of the internal clock signal generator in the absence of an external clock signal on the host interface, the electrical circuit configured to provide an interrupt signal to the host interface after detection of acoustic activity, and the electrical circuit configured to control an operating mode of the microphone assembly based on a frequency of an external clock signal received at the host interface in response to the interrupt signal, wherein the electrical circuit is configured to provide data representing the electrical signal to the host interface using the external clock signal received at the host interface.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.84127
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14824736', '14282101', '14522158', '14533690', '16018724']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6767057391327832
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5180055500512891
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6608357202246338
- Mean Citation Score: 259.727688
- Max Citation Score: 324.81284
- Similarity Product: 308.2636481670809

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test