PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16120203
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["381", "023100"]

Abstract:
A binaural hearing system includes a binaural pair of microphones that are configured to be located, respectively, at a first ear and a second ear of a user. The system further includes an interconnected binaural pair of sound processors that are associated with the binaural pair of microphones. The binaural pair of sound processors are configured to preserve, to a partial degree for each of the first and second ears of the user, an interaural level difference (“ILD”) between a first signal generated by the first microphone and a second signal generated by the second microphone. The sound processors do this by performing a contralateral gain synchronization operation to a first partial degree with respect to the first and second signals at the first sound processor, and to a second partial degree with respect to the first and second signals at the second sound processor.

Claim (Index 19):
A method of preserving, to a partial degree for each of a first and a second ear of a user of a binaural hearing system, an interaural level difference (\u201cILD\u201d) between a first signal and a second signal, the method comprising:\n receiving, by a first sound processor associated with the first ear and directly from a first microphone, the first signal, the first signal representative of an audio signal presented to the user as the audio signal is detected by the first microphone at the first ear; receiving, by the first sound processor from a second sound processor associated with the second ear and by way of a communication link interconnecting the first and second sound processors, the second signal, the second signal representative of the audio signal as the audio signal is detected by a second microphone at the second ear; receiving, by the second sound processor directly from the second microphone, the second signal; receiving, by the second sound processor from the first sound processor by way of the communication link, the first signal; performing, by the first sound processor, a contralateral gain synchronization operation to a first partial degree with respect to the first and second signals; and performing, by the second sound processor, the contralateral gain synchronization operation to a second partial degree with respect to the first and second signals.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.54839
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15908776', '16327823', '15741217', '15946022', '13901922']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7020918929641063
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6130018449199603
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6931828881596918
- Mean Citation Score: 391.49304
- Max Citation Score: 557.42267
- Similarity Product: 490.2122561821795

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

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