PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15957164
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["381", "315000"]

Abstract:
The disclosure relates to binaural hearing instruments and more particularly to reduction of processing time required in a binaural hearing aid system. According to the disclosure, there is provided a method comprising mono-directional transmission of data blocks comprising audio and/or information frames from one hearing instrument to the other hearing instrument or vice versa in a binaural hearing aid. According to the disclosure, the direction of transmission is determined by a quantity characterizing the presence of usable information content in the sound signal picked up by the hearing instruments of the binaural hearing aid. It is proposed to use one or more of local SNR, local voice activity detection indication, local level, local speech intelligibility estimate to determine the direction of transmission, although other quantities may be used.

Claim (Index 6):
The method according to  claim 1 , wherein when the difference between the first quantity and the second quantity is at least the predefined threshold value the transmission direction comprises\n transmitting the audio information from the first hearing aid to the second hearing aid if the second quantity is higher than the first quantity and the first quantity is below a predefined low value and second quantity is below the predefined high value; or transmitting the audio information from the second hearing aid to the first hearing aid if the first quantity is higher than the second quantity and the second quantity is below the predefined low value and the first quantity is below the predefined high value.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.86486
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15204753', '15457694', '13592100', '13901922', '15895266']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6910310279175875
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6220085804744273
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6841287831732715
- Mean Citation Score: 329.248124
- Max Citation Score: 543.54535
- Similarity Product: 525.881600874108

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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