PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15759122
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["455", "569200"]

Abstract:
Characteristics of noise contained in input signals of a plurality of microphones are adjusted to be equal to each other at each frequency, and an input signal of a microphone identified to be a microphone through which a speaker has input uttered speech from among the microphones subjected to adjustment of the noise characteristics is switched to a signal to be transmitted to a person on another end of call.

Claim (Index 1):
A hands-free control apparatus comprising:\n processing circuitry to identify from among a plurality of microphones a microphone through which a speaker inputs uttered speech; to adjust characteristics of noises, each contained in an input signal of one of the plurality of microphones, to be equal to each other at each frequency; and to switch an input signal of the identified microphone among the input signals of the plurality of microphones whose noise characteristics are adjusted, to a signal to be transmitted to a person on another end of call.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.56522
- Patent Class: 455.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['11872936', '12537662', '13734060', '11849527', '10740569']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6936797854693485
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4774880484239173
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6720606117648054
- Mean Citation Score: 187.23143
- Max Citation Score: 204.8322
- Similarity Product: 159.55131467138528

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