PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15908206
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["381", "310000"]

Abstract:
Sound is produced through headphones in a manner that improves user experience and increases safety. In some circumstances, such as when the user is moving during exercise, commuting, etc., an audio safety spatialization mode of the headphones is automatically activated. In this mode, sound is spatialized such that when the user turns his head, the sound appears to be generated from a same position in space as before the user turned his head. If the user's head remains in the turned position, the spatialized sound will return to an initialized position with respect to the user's head.

Claim (Index 9):
A method for producing sound through headphones having a right ear portion and a left ear portion, the method comprising:\n establishing a virtual audio source at a first position, the first position being a first point in space relative to a neutral position of the headphones when worn by a user; generating sound through the right ear portion and the left ear portion of the headphones, such that the sound is produced with an effect of emanating from the virtual source; detecting angular movement of the headphones with respect to the first position; determining an angle of the headphones with respect to the first position as a result of the detected angular movement; adjusting the sound in the right ear portion by at least one of reducing the sound level in the left ear portion or increasing the sound level in the right ear portion when the detected angular movement of the headphones is to the left, and adjusting the sound in the left ear portion by at least one of reducing the sound level in the right ear portion or increasing the sound level in the left ear portion when the detected angular movement of the headphones is to the right; and moving the virtual audio source to a second position when one or more conditions are met, the second position being a second point in space different from the first point in space but a same position relative to the neutral position of the headphones.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.83333
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11664231', '10965130', '15175901', '13070289', '13885392']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6884926929469015
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4852490990397783
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6681683335561892
- Mean Citation Score: 190.52382
- Max Citation Score: 194.66425
- Similarity Product: 137.24328224538272

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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