PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15925455
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["084", "723000"]

Abstract:
Embodiment apparatus and associated methods relate to adapting an actuator to adjust the tension of a musical instrument string, configuring a sensor to detect vibration propagated through the musical instrument body, configuring a noise removal filter to remove an undesired signal from vibration propagated through the musical instrument body, and automatically tuning the musical instrument based on adjusting the musical instrument string tension by the actuator while removing the undesired signal, until the fundamental frequency propagated through the instrument body by the vibration of the musical instrument string is within a predetermined tolerance of a reference frequency. In an illustrative example, the undesired signal may be actuator vibration. In some embodiments, actuator vibration spectral content may vary as a function of actuator torque, and, the noise removal filter may be adapted in real time. Various examples may advantageously provide faster and more accurate stringed musical instrument tuning.

Claim (Index 33):
The apparatus of  claim 1 , wherein the controller is further adapted to measure actuator torque as a function of sensing actuator current and the operations performed by the processor further comprise adaptively controlling the actuator as a function of actuator current.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.12
- Patent Class: 84.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11484467', '14154884', '10933653', '11321961', '11055126']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6870721337959921
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5152792458018479
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6698928449965778
- Mean Citation Score: 302.612798
- Max Citation Score: 309.69754
- Similarity Product: 161.58726754284382

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