PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16026062
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2020-01
Patent Classification: ["381", "357000"]

Abstract:
Described is a way to steer speaker array or microphone array based on direction outputs of tiny light sensors attached to TV viewers, noisy-environment workers, or AR/VR system users. More specifically, a light projector is disposed on a ceiling, which sends out different sequential on/off signals for each pixel. Two light sensors are attached to each speaker array or microphone array, and one or more light sensors are attached to each user. Because each projector pixel corresponds to a specific direction, when a light sensor receives sequential signal from the projector, the light sensor can determine its direction corresponding to the projector and report that to the central station. With the speaker/microphone array direction and user direction known, the system can generate proper phase shifts for different speaker signals and generate directional sound for each individual. Similarly, the central station can determine phase shifts for combining audios from different microphones.

Claim (Index 12):
The method of  claim 11 , wherein the computer is further configured to periodically re-calculate the direction information based on the detected temporal projector light signal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0625
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14721235', '15447176', '14852202', '10184499', '13056709']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6639939897870238
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4798934784178613
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6455839386501075
- Mean Citation Score: 148.15201000000005
- Max Citation Score: 154.0016
- Similarity Product: 112.0794105659485

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 0

Dataset: test