PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16435503
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-06
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["381", "310000"]

Abstract:
A method provides binaural sound to a person through electronic earphones. The binaural sound localizes to a sound localization point (SLP) in empty space that is away from but proximate to the person. When an event occurs, the binaural sound switches or changes to stereo sound, to mono sound, or to altered binaural sound.

Claim (Index 28):
Headphones, comprising:\n speakers that play sound processed by a digital signal processor (DSP) with head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) to generate binaural sound; and a switch that when activated by a hand of a user changes between multiple modes of operation that include switching the binaural sound playing to both ears of the user through the speakers that externally localizes outside a head of the user to stereo sound or mono sound playing to both of the ears of the user through the speakers that internally localizes inside the head of the user.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.55
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16401233', '16106140', '16401242', '15826721', '15674009']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7586096146776179
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5656492655732318
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7393135797671793
- Mean Citation Score: 402.238394
- Max Citation Score: 455.5804
- Similarity Product: 404.2821425880194

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