PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15967089
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["381", "017000"]

Abstract:
A method for adjusting audio being outputted through a beam forming loudspeaker array. Program audio is rendered to drive the loudspeaker array to produce sound beams having i) a main content pattern that is aimed at a listener, superimposed with ii) several diffuse content patterns that are aimed away from the listener. In response to receiving an alert message that refers to alert audio, the portion of the program audio in the main pattern is moved into the diffuse patterns, and the alert audio is rendered to drive the loudspeaker array so that the portion of the program audio in the main pattern is replaced with the alert audio. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.

Claim (Index 12):
An article of manufacture comprising a machine-readable medium having instructions stored therein that when executed by a processor\n receive program audio of a piece of sound program content that is to be converted into sound by the loudspeaker array; render the program audio to drive the loudspeaker array to produce sound beams having i) a main content pattern, superimposed with ii) a plurality of diffuse content patterns, wherein the main content pattern and the diffuse content patterns contain portions of the program audio and are aimed in different directions; and receive an alert message that refers to alert audio; in response to receiving the alert message\n move the portion of the program audio that is in the main content pattern into the plurality of the diffuse content patterns; and \n render the alert audio to drive the loudspeaker array so as to replace the portion of the program audio in the main content pattern with the alert audio.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.95312
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15621732', '15593887', '15612907', '14771482', '14498021']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7114677259110067
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.508846412194217
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6912055945393277
- Mean Citation Score: 255.1521
- Max Citation Score: 296.9791
- Similarity Product: 235.6675212912917

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