PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15866659
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["381", "122000"]

Abstract:
System and method examples offer ways to count occupants in an area by sound. A system includes a data network, a light fixture having intelligent driver circuitry coupled to a light source, a lighting control device to control a light output and operations of the light source in an area, and a microphone coupled to the lighting control device. The lighting control device includes programming that configures a processor to control the microphone to sample and detect sound in the area, determine a location of the detected sound relative to a position of the microphone coupled to the lighting control device, and increment an occupant counter to correspond to each newly determined location of sound in the area for a predetermined period of time.

Claim (Index 1):
A system, comprising:\n a data network; a light fixture, comprising:\n a light source; \n intelligent driver circuitry coupled to the light source to provide power to the light source; \n a lighting control device coupled to the intelligent driver circuitry to control a light output and operations of the light source in an area; and \n a network interface to enable the light fixture to receive communication via the data network; \n wherein the lighting control device of the light fixture comprises:\n a processor coupled to the intelligent driver circuitry, and the network interface; and \n memory coupled to be accessible to the processor, wherein the memory stores programming for execution by the processor and data to be stored or processed by the processor during execution of instructions included in the programming; and \n a microphone coupled to the lighting control device, wherein execution of the programming in the memory configures the processor to: \n control the microphone to sample and, detect a sound in the area; \n analyze the detected sound to determine a sound type and decibel level; \n determine, when the detected sound is a predetermined sound type and exceeds a threshold level, a vector of the detected sound relative to a position of the microphone coupled to the lighting control device of the light fixture and an>order of sound reception of the sound to the microphone in the area, \n \n wherein the order of sound reception represents a location of an occupant in the area;\n store the determined location of the sound in the memory; and \n increment an occupant counter to correspond to each newly determined location of sound in the area fir a predetermined period of time.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.16393
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15681941', '13289492', '15260317', '14476341', '14267386']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7004465426156792
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4805924364848641
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6784611320025977
- Mean Citation Score: 194.68261
- Max Citation Score: 209.32597
- Similarity Product: 159.85257552566827

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