PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16154389
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["381", "071600"]

Abstract:
A hearing protection headset that can be worn by a user includes left and right earcups. The headset includes a radio communication system enabling at least one radio signal to be received and played through one or both of the earcups. Noise control circuitry in the headset is configurable by a user between at least three active modes of operation—the circuitry having a first active mode in which the headset provides automatic noise reduction, a second active mode in which the headset provides automatic noise cancellation, and a third active mode in which the headset provides both automatic noise reduction and automatic noise cancellation. A switch is manually operable by the user to configure the circuitry between the first active mode and the second active mode and the third active mode.

Claim (Index 13):
A hearing protection headset that can be worn by a user, the headset including left and right earcups, the headset including:\n a radio communication system enabling at least one radio signal to be received and played through one or both of the earcups; noise control circuitry configurable by a user between at least three active modes of operation, the circuitry having a first active mode in which the headset provides automatic noise reduction but does not provide automatic noise cancellation, a second active mode in which the headset provides automatic noise cancellation but does not provide automatic noise reduction, and a third active mode in which the headset provides both automatic noise reduction and automatic noise cancellation; and a switch that is manually operable by the user to configure the circuitry between the first active mode and the second active mode and the third active mode; wherein each earcup includes (i) a first speaker for use in radio communications but not in noise control, (ii) a second speaker that is part of the noise control circuitry and that is not for use in radio communications, and (iii) an internal microphone that is part of the noise control circuitry and that is mounted on the second speaker; the second speaker and the internal microphone both being active for automatic noise cancellation operation when the circuitry is in either the second mode or the third mode; the second speaker being active and the internal microphone being inactive for automatic noise reduction operation when the circuitry is in the first mode; a controller; the circuitry when operating in the automatic noise reduction mode having a feed forward path including an external microphone, a preamplifier, a compression and noise gating unit, an analog controller, and the second speaker, and not including the internal microphone; the circuitry when operating in the automatic noise cancellation mode having a feedback path including the second speaker and the internal microphone and the controller, and not including the external microphone, the preamplifier, and the compression and noise gating unit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 38.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.2459
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15708682', '14215752', '13284371', '13661521', '10417755']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6886397044721992
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.558008980680659
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6755766320930452
- Mean Citation Score: 276.108894
- Max Citation Score: 409.02362
- Similarity Product: 365.11727819957497

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