PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15893097
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["381", "317000"]

Abstract:
A method distorts the frequency of an input signal that is present as an audio signal. Here, the input signal is divided into a low-frequency signal component and a high-frequency signal component. These two signal components adjoin one another at a cut-off frequency. The high-frequency signal component is frequency-distorted and overlaid with the low-frequency signal component to form an output signal. An associated gain factor is modified, at least for an edge region, containing the cut-off frequency, of the high-frequency signal component and/or of the low-frequency signal component, such that a level difference between a signal level of the low-frequency signal component and a signal level of the frequency-distorted high-frequency signal component is increased.

Claim (Index 9):
The hearing apparatus according to  claim 8 , wherein:\n said frequency splitter is formed by a filter bank which is configured to divide the input signal into a multiplicity of frequency bands, the frequency bands including a number of low-frequency frequency bands carrying the low-frequency signal component and an adjoining number of high-frequency frequency bands carrying the high-frequency signal component, wherein a subset of the high-frequency frequency bands which adjoin the low-frequency frequency bands forms the edge region of the high-frequency signal component and/or wherein a subset of the low-frequency frequency bands which adjoin the high-frequency frequency bands form the edge region of the low-frequency signal component; and said signal processor is configured only to modify the gain factor in the frequency bands that are assigned to the edge region.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.25455
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12767064', '15867980', '15064787', '15139528', '13691950']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7131700591469072
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4739765886011263
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6892507120923291
- Mean Citation Score: 187.604772
- Max Citation Score: 206.17195
- Similarity Product: 172.52324568338096

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

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