PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16276594
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["381", "001000"]

Abstract:
A method provides binaural sound to a listener while the listener watches a movie so sounds from the movie localize to a location of a character in the movie. Sound is convolved with head related transfer functions (HRTFs) of the listener, and the convolved sound is provided to the listener who wears a wearable electronic device.

Claim (Index 36):
A method that provides binaural sound to a listener watching a movie in virtual reality (VR), the method comprising:\n displaying, with a head mounted display (HMD), a VR movie theater that includes VR seats, a VR movie screen, and a VR listener watching the movie in the VR movie theater; tracking, with the HMD worn by the listener, head movements of the listener to determine a head orientation of the listener with respect to a location of a character on the VR movie screen; processing, with one or more processors and based on the head movements, a voice of character as the binaural sound that originates at a sound localization point (SLP) that exists at a location on the VR movie screen where the character appears on the VR movie screen such that from a point-of-view of the listener the voice of the character externally localizes to the location where the character is on the VR movie screen; and processing, with the one or more processors and based on the head movements, the voice of character to move and to follow movements of the character as the character moves on the VR movie screen such that the voice of the character continues to originate from the SLP that exists at the location on the VR movie screen where the character appears as the character moves.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.525
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16210033', '16168848', '15944798', '15353880', '15365880']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7236257760742214
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.510644366150149
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7023276350818142
- Mean Citation Score: 282.383702
- Max Citation Score: 290.01324
- Similarity Product: 202.62611733500003

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test