PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15983646
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["381", "071600"]

Abstract:
An apparatus for playback of captured ambient sounds. The apparatus comprises a controller comprising a first input coupled to a respective first microphone for receiving an audio signal generated by the microphone, the audio signal representative of captured ambient sounds; a second input for receiving a playback instruction to instigate playback of ambient sounds; and an output coupled to a speaker. The apparatus further comprises data memory comprising a data structure for continuously buffering a most recent portion of the audio signal as an audio snippet. In response to detection of the playback instruction at the second input, the controller is configured to determine an output audio signal based on the audio snippet and provide the audio output signal to the output for substantially immediate playback through the speaker.

Claim (Index 51):
An apparatus for playback of captured ambient sounds, the apparatus comprising:\n a controller comprising:\n a first input coupled to a respective first microphone for receiving an audio signal generated by the microphone, the audio signal representative of captured ambient sounds; \n a second input for receiving an instruction to instigate playback of ambient sounds; \n a third input for receiving a media audio signal from an electronic device; and \n an output coupled to a speaker; and \n data memory comprising a data structure for continuously buffering a most recent portion of the audio signal as an audio snippet; wherein, the controller is configured to:\n selectively cause the media audio signal to be provided to the output to allow media from the electronic device to be played through the speaker; and \n in response to detection of the instruction at the second input:\n determine an output audio signal based on the audio snippet; \n in response to determining that media from the electronic device is being played through the speaker, stop the media from being played through the speaker; and \n provide the audio signal to the output for substantially immediate playback through the speaker; \n \n wherein the controller is further configured to:\n scan the received audio signal; \n identify segments of the received audio signal as speech and/or non-speech segments; and \n determine the audio snippet based on the scanning and identifying such that the segments of speech and non-speech are associated with different playback rates.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 140.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.28333
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15839119', '15005974', '12272131', '12037088', '13948566']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7005903230387823
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4776031281131832
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6782916035462224
- Mean Citation Score: 186.529646
- Max Citation Score: 202.27696
- Similarity Product: 156.27460884321212

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