PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16000876
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["381", "092000"]

Abstract:
A sound collecting apparatus capable of effectively suppressing sounds other than a target sound is provided. The sound collecting apparatus includes a plurality of microphones. A total number of effective microphone pairs in which a distance between two microphones is smaller than a distance D is larger than a total number of the plurality of microphones. The distance D is represented by D=c/2f, where the frequency of the target sound acquired from each of the plurality of microphones is f and sound velocity is c. When an angle formed by a straight line connecting two microphones configuring an effective microphone pair and a predetermined straight line is θ, the angles θ of all effective microphone pairs acquired from the plurality of microphones are different from each other.

Claim (Index 5):
The sound collecting apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein\n the plurality of microphones are arranged at positions corresponding to vertexes of an equilateral N-gon, N being an odd number, and a center position of the equilateral N-gon.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.14516
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11990200', '12093849', '12037426', '12661635', '14572941']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7008900247915213
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4843710371073587
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6792381260231051
- Mean Citation Score: 151.721266
- Max Citation Score: 155.54765
- Similarity Product: 103.1513611412406

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

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