PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15921711
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["381", "080000"]

Abstract:
An audio system includes a first audio apparatus that receives a first audio signal with a first number of channels and a second audio apparatus connected to the first audio apparatus via a network. The first audio apparatus includes a signal processing unit configured to generate, on the basis of the first audio signal received from the outside of the first audio apparatus, a second audio signal with a second number of channels larger than the first number of channels, and a communication unit configured to transmit a third audio signal corresponding to a part of the channels in the second audio signal generated by the signal processing unit to the second audio apparatus.

Claim (Index 4):
The audio system according to  claim 2 , further comprising a third audio apparatus, a fourth audio apparatus, and a fifth audio apparatus connected to the first audio apparatus and the second audio apparatus via the network, wherein\n the third audio apparatus transmits the first audio signal received from the outside of the third audio apparatus to the first audio apparatus and the fourth audio apparatus, the first audio apparatus transmits the third audio signal to the second audio apparatus and the fifth audio apparatus, the first audio apparatus calculates a first distribution time of the first audio signal from the third audio apparatus to the first audio apparatus, a second distribution time of the third audio signal from the first audio apparatus to the second audio apparatus, and a third distribution time of the third audio signal from the first audio apparatus to the fifth audio apparatus, determines, as a maximum distribution time, a longer distribution time of the calculated second distribution time and the calculated third distribution time, and notifies the third audio apparatus of a total distribution time obtained by totaling the calculated first distribution time and the determined maximum distribution time, the fourth audio apparatus notifies the third audio apparatus of a fourth distribution time of the first audio signal from the third audio apparatus to the fourth audio apparatus, the third audio apparatus further calculates, on the basis of the total distribution time, the fourth distribution time, and a processing time required from when the third audio apparatus receives the first audio signal until the third audio apparatus reproduces the first audio signal, a first delay time for the first audio apparatus to reproduce the fourth audio signal, a second delay time for the fourth audio apparatus to reproduce the first audio signal, and a third delay time for the third audio apparatus to reproduce the first audio signal, and the first audio apparatus further calculates, on the basis of the first delay time and the maximum distribution time, a fourth delay time for the second audio apparatus to reproduce the third audio signal and a fifth delay time for the fifth audio apparatus to reproduce the third audio signal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.76744
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12702520', '13319141', '12229878', '12229803', '12721566']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6676553340743111
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4753849937721441
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6484283000440945
- Mean Citation Score: 147.203204
- Max Citation Score: 151.6292
- Similarity Product: 105.91674349069596

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

Dataset: test