PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16272013
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["381", "092000"]

Abstract:
A pair of earphones have microphone arrays each including a front microphone and a rear microphone. A processor uses a first set of filters to combine the four microphone signals to generate a far-field signal that is more sensitive to sounds originating a short distance away from the earphones than to sounds close to the apparatus, and provides the far-field signal to the speakers for output. The processor also uses a second set of filters to combine the four microphone signals to generate a near-field signal that is more sensitive to voice signals from a person wearing the earphones than to sounds originating away from the earphones, and provides the near-field signal to a communication system.

Claim (Index 12):
The method of  claim 9 , wherein generating the first signal and providing the first signal to the output comprises, in the processor:\n using a third set of filters, different from the first set of filters, to combine the microphone signals to generate a third signal that is more sensitive to sounds originating at the first location relative to the first and second earphones than to sounds originating at the second location relative to the first and second earphones; providing the first signal to a first channel of the first output; and providing the third signal to a second channel of the first output.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.24074
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15910881', '15347419', '15347445', '15827104', '15244593']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7326835968517281
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5534043887040905
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7147556760369644
- Mean Citation Score: 357.55318
- Max Citation Score: 401.8135
- Similarity Product: 357.42166719606524

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

Dataset: test