PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16036410
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["381", "092000"]

Abstract:
A directional microphone array which can be integrated into a case for a portable computing device. A microphone array board connects to a surface of a laptop computer, tablet computer or smart phone, which can be steered in the direction of a target source. An audio processing module (APM) is operably engaged with the array board to receive a first staged beamformed audio input from the array board, and process a second beamformed stage audio output.

Claim (Index 1):
A microphone array apparatus comprising:\n a housing configured to be selectively coupled to a substantially planar surface of an electronic device such that a perimeter of the housing is configured to partially encompass the substantially planar surface of the electronic device, the housing having an interior surface and an exterior surface and at least one aperture configured to pass acoustic signals there through; and, a plurality of microphones being coupled to interior surface of the housing to comprise an array surface such that the plurality of microphones is operable to receive acoustic signals passed through the at least one aperture, the plurality of microphones being arranged in a nested circle configuration with fractal-based spacing between the circles and the microphones.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.5
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15280343', '13654225', '14561433', '12837314', '13493950']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6744753184354354
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4665567047950205
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6536834570713939
- Mean Citation Score: 156.48185
- Max Citation Score: 191.80258
- Similarity Product: 160.83348716734648

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

Dataset: test