PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16383835
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-04
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["381", "071400"]

Abstract:
A vehicular sound processing system includes a plurality of interior microphones that detect interior sound emanating from within the interior cabin of the vehicle, and a plurality of exterior microphones that detect exterior sound emanating from exterior the vehicle. The interior microphones also detect exterior sound. A sound processor processes exterior microphone signals to determine exterior sound detected by the exterior microphones. The sound processor processes interior microphone signals to distinguish voices of occupants present within the interior cabin from non-vocal sound emanating from within the interior cabin and from exterior sound emanating from exterior the vehicle. The sound processor processes the exterior microphone signals to determine a sound of interest emanating from exterior of the vehicle. Responsive to determination of the sound of interest, the sound of interest is played by loudspeakers so that a driver of the vehicle can hear the sound of interest.

Claim (Index 16):
A vehicular sound processing system, said vehicular sound processing system comprising:\n a plurality of interior microphones disposed at an interior cabin of a vehicle equipped with said vehicular sound processing system, wherein said plurality of interior microphones detects interior sound emanating from within the interior cabin of the equipped vehicle; wherein said plurality of interior microphones also detects exterior sound emanating from exterior the equipped vehicle; a plurality of exterior microphones disposed at the equipped vehicle and located exterior of the interior cabin of the equipped vehicle, wherein said plurality of exterior microphones detects exterior sound emanating from exterior the equipped vehicle; wherein exterior microphone signals generated by said plurality of exterior microphones are provided to a sound processor of said vehicular sound processing system; wherein interior microphone signals generated by said plurality of interior microphones are provided to the sound processor of said vehicular sound processing system; wherein said sound processor processes exterior microphone signals generated by said plurality of exterior microphones to determine exterior sound detected by said plurality of exterior microphones; wherein said sound processor processes interior microphone signals generated by said plurality of interior microphones to distinguish voices of occupants present within the interior cabin of the equipped vehicle from non-vocal sound emanating from within the interior cabin of the equipped vehicle and from exterior sound emanating from exterior the equipped vehicle; wherein said sound processor processes the exterior microphone signals to determine a sound of interest emanating from exterior of the equipped vehicle; wherein the sound of interest comprises a siren of an emergency vehicle; wherein the equipped vehicle is equipped with at least one camera having a field of view exterior of the equipped vehicle, and wherein presence of the emergency vehicle that is the source of the sound of interest is determined at least in part by processing of image data captured by the at least one camera disposed at the equipped vehicle; and wherein, responsive to determination by said sound processor of the sound of interest, the sound of interest is played by loudspeakers of said vehicular sound processing system so that a driver of the equipped vehicle can hear the sound of interest.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.20833
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14807011', '15790175', '10190809', '12473843', '11052623']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7547613650491203
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5467155760599066
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7339567861501989
- Mean Citation Score: 314.22339
- Max Citation Score: 399.8552
- Similarity Product: 346.9778727323056

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

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