PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16185474
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["381", "335000"]

Abstract:
A multi-way speaker array is disclosed that includes rings of transducers of different types. The rings of transducers may encircle the cabinet of the speaker array such that the speaker array is rotationally symmetric. The distance between rings of transducers may be based on a logarithmic scale. By separating rings of transducers using logarithmic spacing, denser transducer spacing at short wavelengths is achieved while limiting the number of transducers needed for longer wavelengths by spacing them in larger and larger logarithmic increments. Transducers with overlapping frequency ranges may be used in the speaker array to avoid initial dips or shortfalls in directivity for corresponding beam patterns.

Claim (Index 33):
A multi-way speaker array, comprising:\n a cabinet; a rotationally symmetrical ring of transducers arranged along a surface of the cabinet around a center axis, wherein each of the transducers in the rotationally symmetrical ring of transducers has a first frequency range, and wherein the transducers within the rotationally symmetrical ring are separated by a first distance; and a second ring of transducers arranged along the surface of the cabinet around the center axis, wherein each of the transducers within the second ring has a second frequency range lower than the first frequency range, wherein the transducers within the second ring are separated by a second distance greater than the first distance, and wherein the second ring is spaced from the rotationally symmetrical ring in a direction of the center axis by a first vertical distance; and a third transducer having a third frequency range lower than the second frequency range, and wherein the third transducer is spaced from the second ring in the direction of the center axis by a second vertical distance greater than the first vertical distance.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.62319
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15583949', '15504312', '15513955', '15623028', '15514815']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7032836654620443
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5325632338620637
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6862116223020462
- Mean Citation Score: 273.010158
- Max Citation Score: 371.17374
- Similarity Product: 325.4713299156296

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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