PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15744761
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["381", "303000"]

Abstract:
In one embodiment of the present invention, a central communications controller creates customized hearing experiences without unnecessarily encumbering listeners. In operation, for each listener, the central communications controller selects distracting and/or confidential sounds and generates a cancellation signal that substantially attenuates (i.e., “cancels out”) the selected sounds without corrupting remaining sounds. To selectively filter the sounds for a listener, the central communications controller leverages one or more highly directional loudspeakers to deliver the cancellation signal directly to the ears corresponding to the listener. More specifically, for a given ear, the central communications controller transmits the cancellation signal to a highly direction loudspeaker that targets the location of the ear. In this fashion, the central communications controller provides a listener-customized listening experience—selectively cancelling sounds at Identify sounds to be suppressed and generate ears—without relying on constraining sound delivery systems such as headphones, in-ear auditory devices, and the like.

Claim (Index 11):
The non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium of  claim 9 , wherein the first sound component comprises either a voice signal or a background noise signal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.72917
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14483044', '14148689', '12034404', '14808967', '10490591']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.701597821817505
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5024499510221916
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6816830347379736
- Mean Citation Score: 180.22281200000003
- Max Citation Score: 234.90347000000003
- Similarity Product: 158.12273728280903

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