PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16028021
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["381", "313000"]

Abstract:
A sound processing arrangement is described for a patient with a bilateral cochlear implant system having implanted electrode arrays in each ear. There is a left-side sensing microphone and a right-side sensing microphone, each configured for sensing the sound environment surrounding the patient and generating corresponding microphone signals. A sound object identification module is configured for analyzing the microphone signals to identify one or more sound objects within the sound environment. A sound object selection module is configured for processing the microphone signals to generate a sound object signal for each of the one or more sound objects. A stimulation side selector module is configured for selecting on which side or sides of the bilateral cochlear implant arrangement to process each sound object signal. One or more sound processors processes the sound object signals to generate stimulation signals to the implanted electrode arrays on the selected side or sides.

Claim (Index 15):
A sound processing arrangement for a patient with a unilateral cochlear implant system having an implanted electrode array in one ear, the system comprising:\n an ipsilateral left-side sensing microphone and a contralateral right-side sensing microphone, each configured for sensing the sound environment surrounding the patient and generating corresponding microphone signals; a sound object identification module configured for analyzing the microphone signals to identify a plurality of sound objects SO k  within the sound environment, and providing for each k th  identified sound object SO k , two sound object subsets, SO kI  received from the ipsilateral left-side sensing microphone and SO kC  received from the contralateral right-side sensing microphone; a sound object selection module configured to select, for each k th  identified sound object, either SO kI  or SO kC  for use as a sound object signal for each of the plurality of sound objects SO k , wherein SO kI  is selected if the ipsilateral left-side sensing microphone is closer to the sound object SO k , and wherein SO kC  is selected if the contralateral right-side sensing microphone is closer to the sound object SO k ; a sound processor configured for processing the sound object signals to generate stimulation signals to the implanted electrode array.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.47619
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15005046', '14895658', '15518407', '15187865', '15369081']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7171578346793082
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.594916584230613
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7049337096344386
- Mean Citation Score: 338.94400599999994
- Max Citation Score: 500.56738
- Similarity Product: 493.5707452934575

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