PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16120203
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["381", "023100"]

Abstract:
A binaural hearing system includes a binaural pair of microphones that are configured to be located, respectively, at a first ear and a second ear of a user. The system further includes an interconnected binaural pair of sound processors that are associated with the binaural pair of microphones. The binaural pair of sound processors are configured to preserve, to a partial degree for each of the first and second ears of the user, an interaural level difference (“ILD”) between a first signal generated by the first microphone and a second signal generated by the second microphone. The sound processors do this by performing a contralateral gain synchronization operation to a first partial degree with respect to the first and second signals at the first sound processor, and to a second partial degree with respect to the first and second signals at the second sound processor.

Claim (Index 10):
The binaural hearing system of  claim 1 , wherein the first sound processor is configured to perform the contralateral gain synchronization operation to the first partial degree by:\n receiving the first signal directly from the first microphone; receiving the second signal from the second sound processor by way of a communication link interconnecting the binaural pair of sound processors; determining a level of the first signal; determining a level of the second signal; determining the first partial degree to which the contralateral gain synchronization operation is to be performed; generating a first gain processing parameter based on\n exclusively the level of the first signal if the level of the first signal is greater than the level of the second signal, and \n both the levels of the first and second signals if the level of the first signal is lesser than the level of the second signal; and \n performing a first gain processing operation, based on the first gain processing parameter, on a first at least one of the first and second signals to thereby generate a first output signal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.54839
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15908776', '16327823', '15741217', '15946022', '13901922']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7243307794656297
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6212595502462976
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7140236565436966
- Mean Citation Score: 391.49304
- Max Citation Score: 557.42267
- Similarity Product: 515.118100066173

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

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