PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15744761
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["381", "303000"]

Abstract:
In one embodiment of the present invention, a central communications controller creates customized hearing experiences without unnecessarily encumbering listeners. In operation, for each listener, the central communications controller selects distracting and/or confidential sounds and generates a cancellation signal that substantially attenuates (i.e., “cancels out”) the selected sounds without corrupting remaining sounds. To selectively filter the sounds for a listener, the central communications controller leverages one or more highly directional loudspeakers to deliver the cancellation signal directly to the ears corresponding to the listener. More specifically, for a given ear, the central communications controller transmits the cancellation signal to a highly direction loudspeaker that targets the location of the ear. In this fashion, the central communications controller provides a listener-customized listening experience—selectively cancelling sounds at Identify sounds to be suppressed and generate ears—without relying on constraining sound delivery systems such as headphones, in-ear auditory devices, and the like.

Claim (Index 2):
The computer-implemented method of  claim 1 , wherein an orientation of the first highly directional loudspeaker is controlled via a first actuator, and further comprising generating a first actuator control signal that causes the first actuator to align the orientation of the first highly directional loudspeaker with the first ear.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.72917
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14483044', '14148689', '12034404', '14808967', '10490591']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6783613873903651
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4891560865136101
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6594408573026896
- Mean Citation Score: 180.22281200000003
- Max Citation Score: 234.90347000000003
- Similarity Product: 182.3932164276684

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