PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15863615
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["381", "071800"]

Abstract:
Embodiments of systems and methods are described for reducing undesired leakage energy produced by a non-front-facing speaker in a multi-speaker system. For example, the multi-speaker system can include an array of forward-facing speakers, one or more upward-facing speakers, and/or one or more side-facing speakers. Filters coupled to any two of the speakers in the multi-speaker system can generate audio signals output by the coupled speakers to reduce, attenuate, or cancel a portion of an audio signal output by one or more non-front-facing speakers that acoustically propagates along a direct path from the respective non-front-facing speaker to a listening position in a listening area in front of the multi-speaker system.

Claim (Index 21):
A multi-speaker system comprising:\n a plurality of first speakers; a second speaker; a processor configured to apply, to individual speakers in the plurality of first speakers, an input audio signal, the plurality of first speakers configured to output the input audio signals such that the input audio signals acoustically propagate to a listening area; and a plurality of filters corresponding to the second speaker, wherein each filter in the plurality of filters is configured to generate a second signal, wherein the plurality of filters are configured to provide the second signals to the second speaker, wherein the second signals applied to the second speaker by the plurality of filters collectively at least attenuate the input audio signals acoustically propagated by the plurality of first speakers to the listening area.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.85714
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15242396', '11380840', '11425969', '10692692', '15752883']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7028924397458274
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.559655109555688
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6885687067268135
- Mean Citation Score: 248.457928
- Max Citation Score: 431.18512
- Similarity Product: 376.5696752517509

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