PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15983448
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["381", "151000"]

Abstract:
Contact hearing devices for use with a wearable communication apparatus are disclosed to provide the user with an open ear canal to hear ambient sound and sound from an audio signal. The disclosed devices and systems have an advantage of providing sound to user from the audio signal, in many embodiments without creating sound that can be perceived by others. The contact hearing device can also be used to amplify ambient sound to provide a hearing assistance to users with diminished hearing. The wearable information apparatus can be configured to couple wirelessly to the contact transducer assembly, such that the wearable information apparatus can be removed while the contact transducer assembly remains placed on the user.

Claim (Index 1):
A wearable communication apparatus, comprising:\n a support structure configured to be wearable by a user, wherein the support structure comprises a frame to position one or more displays in front of one or both eyes of the user to view one or more images on the one or more displays and wherein the audio signal corresponds to the one or more images; a contact transducer assembly configured to produce vibrations of an eardrum, wherein the contact transducer assembly is configured to reside on a lateral surface of the eardrum; and circuitry configured to drive the contact transducer assembly with an audio signal from an output transducer coupled to the circuitry, wherein the output transducer comprises a magnetic field generator configured for positioning in an ear canal of the user, the magnetic field generator generating an electromagnetic signal wherein the electromagnetic signal provides both power and signal to the contact transducer, and wherein the circuitry is adapted to produce a display audio signal corresponding to the one or more images, wherein the circuitry generates the display audio signal and transmits the display audio signal to the contact transducer assembly by means of the electromagnetic signal in order to provide the user with the display audio signal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.84848
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15368487', '14627336', '12251200', '13768825', '14491572']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6671717569001239
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4966381759657282
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6501183988066843
- Mean Citation Score: 251.421444
- Max Citation Score: 285.32608
- Similarity Product: 283.2164084729767

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