PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15967089
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["381", "017000"]

Abstract:
A method for adjusting audio being outputted through a beam forming loudspeaker array. Program audio is rendered to drive the loudspeaker array to produce sound beams having i) a main content pattern that is aimed at a listener, superimposed with ii) several diffuse content patterns that are aimed away from the listener. In response to receiving an alert message that refers to alert audio, the portion of the program audio in the main pattern is moved into the diffuse patterns, and the alert audio is rendered to drive the loudspeaker array so that the portion of the program audio in the main pattern is replaced with the alert audio. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.

Claim (Index 17):
A method for adjusting audio being outputted through a loudspeaker array, the method comprising:\n receiving program audio comprising a plurality of input audio channels; producing a first beam former input signal that contains correlated content of the program audio, and a second beam former input signal that contains decorrelated content of the program audio; generating driver signals from the first and second beam former input signals to drive a plurality of loudspeaker drivers of the loudspeaker array to produce a main content beam and a diffuse beam, wherein the main content beam includes the correlated content of the program audio and the diffuse beam includes the decorrelated content of the program audio; receiving an alert message that is associated with an alert audio; and in response to receiving the alert message\n adding (1) reverberation to one or more of the plurality of input audio channels of the program audio, and (2) the alert audio to all of the plurality of input audio channels; and \n in response to adding the reverberation and the alert audio, adjusting the first and second beam former input signals, wherein the generated driver signals from the adjusted first and second beam former input signals produce i) in the main content beam, correlated content of the alert audio signal, and ii) in the diffuse beam, decorrelated content of the program audio.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.95312
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15621732', '15593887', '15612907', '14771482', '14498021']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7116287626808772
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5075873525448136
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6912246216672708
- Mean Citation Score: 255.1521
- Max Citation Score: 296.9791
- Similarity Product: 242.0920433665872

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