PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16162895
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["381", "102000"]

Abstract:
Some disclosed methods may involve receiving audio reproduction data, including audio objects, differentiating near-field audio objects and far-field audio objects in the audio reproduction data, and rendering the far-field audio objects into speaker feed signals for room speakers of a reproduction environment. Each speaker feed signal may correspond to at least one of the room speakers. The near-field audio objects may be rendered into speaker feed signals for near-field speakers and/or headphone speakers of the reproduction environment. Reverberant audio objects may be generated based on physical microphone data from physical microphones in the reproduction environment and from virtual microphone data that is calculated for near-field audio objects. The reverberant audio objects may be rendered into speaker feed signals for the room speakers.

Claim (Index 1):
An audio processing method, comprising:\n receiving audio reproduction data, the audio reproduction data including audio objects; differentiating near-field audio objects and far-field audio objects in the audio reproduction data, based on a location at which an audio object is to be rendered within a reproduction environment; rendering the far-field audio objects into a first plurality of speaker feed signals for room speakers of a reproduction environment, each speaker feed signal corresponding to at least one of the room speakers; rendering the near-field audio objects into speaker feed signals for at least one of near-field speakers or headphone speakers of the reproduction environment; receiving physical microphone data from a plurality of physical microphones in the reproduction environment; calculating virtual microphone data for one or more virtual microphones, the virtual microphone data corresponding to one or more of the near-field audio objects; generating reverberant audio objects based, at least in part, on the physical microphone data and the virtual microphone data; and rendering the reverberant audio objects into a second plurality of speaker feed signals for the room speakers of the reproduction environment.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 68.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.36364
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14126901', '15568451', '14770709', '15803209', '15367937']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6958050213740443
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5179641784841739
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6780209370850573
- Mean Citation Score: 308.36025400000005
- Max Citation Score: 318.18994
- Similarity Product: 274.6367709930444

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

Dataset: test