PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16442509
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-06
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["381", "310000"]

Abstract:
A method provides binaural sound to a person through electronic earphones. The binaural sound localizes to a sound localization point (SLP) in empty space that is away from but proximate to the person. When an event occurs, the binaural sound switches or changes to stereo sound, to mono sound, or to altered binaural sound.

Claim (Index 21):
A method comprising:\n storing head-related transfer functions (HRTFs); displaying, with a display of a head mounted display (HMD) worn on a head of a user, a three-dimensional (3D) virtual environment that includes a virtual image; processing, by a digital signal processor (DSP), sound with the HRTFs to generate binaural sound that plays to the user and that externally localizes in empty space at the virtual image in the 3D virtual environment; and warning the user that the user is leaving the 3D virtual environment by filtering, by the DSP, the binaural sound to alter a spectral cue and lower a volume of the sound playing to the user.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.55
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16401242', '16401233', '16435503', '15826721', '16106140']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7147506494336714
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5728227685586955
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7005578613461738
- Mean Citation Score: 385.454778
- Max Citation Score: 458.53668
- Similarity Product: 398.12188165781737

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