PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16047098
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["381", "303000"]

Abstract:
The disclosure relates to an apparatus for processing soundfield data, the soundfield data defining a soundfield within a spatial reproduction region comprising at least one bright zone and at least one quiet zone. The apparatus comprises an applicator configured to apply a spatially continuously varying weighting function to the soundfield data in order to obtain weighted soundfield data defining a weighted soundfield, wherein the spatially continuously varying weighting function is configured to enhance the soundfield in at least one of the bright zone and the quiet zone.

Claim (Index 7):
The apparatus of any one of  claim 1 , wherein the spatially continuously varying weighting function is a smoothly changing function configured to enhance the soundfield associated with the soundfield data in the bright region and the quiet region relative to the portions of the spatial reproduction region outside of the bright region and the quiet region.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 16.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.06818
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14725063', '16001638', '15862807', '15672058', '14788963']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6571053406220807
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5113010962945681
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6425249161893295
- Mean Citation Score: 180.47142
- Max Citation Score: 259.1718
- Similarity Product: 187.5322114708185

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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