PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16276594
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["381", "001000"]

Abstract:
A method provides binaural sound to a listener while the listener watches a movie so sounds from the movie localize to a location of a character in the movie. Sound is convolved with head related transfer functions (HRTFs) of the listener, and the convolved sound is provided to the listener who wears a wearable electronic device.

Claim (Index 21):
A method that provides binaural sound to a listener watching a movie in virtual reality (VR), the method comprising:\n displaying, with a head mounted display (HMD) worn by the listener, a VR movie theater with a VR movie screen and a VR listener that represents the listener wearing the HMD to watch the movie that includes a character; tracking, with the HMD worn by the listener, head movements of the listener to determine a head orientation of the listener with respect to a location of the character on the VR movie screen; and convolving, with a processor in the HMD and based on the head orientation, a voice of the character to originate as the binaural sound at a sound localization point (SLP) that exists in empty space not occupied by a tangible object but at a location on the VR movie screen where the character appears on the VR movie screen such that from a point-of-view of the listener the voice of the character externally localizes where the character is on the VR movie screen as opposed to localizing to speakers located at a perimeter of the VR movie theater; and providing, with the HMD worn by the listener, the voice of the character to originate as the binaural sound at the SLP that exists in empty space not occupied by the tangible object but at the location on the VR movie screen where the character appears on the VR movie screen such that from the point-of-view of the listener the voice of the character externally localizes where the character is on the VR movie screen.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.525
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16210033', '16168848', '15944798', '15353880', '15365880']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7235498255639536
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5112026076072678
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.702315103768285
- Mean Citation Score: 282.383702
- Max Citation Score: 290.01324
- Similarity Product: 200.0804744948172

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