PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15860451
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["381", "017000"]

Abstract:
A method for binaural synthesis of at least one virtual sound source comprises operating a first device comprising at least four physical sound sources, wherein, when the first device is used by a user, at least two physical sound sources are positioned closer to a first ear of the user than to a second ear, and at least two physical sound sources are positioned closer to the second ear than to the first ear, and wherein, for each ear, at least two physical sound sources are configured to acoustically induce natural directional pinna cues associated with different directions of sound arrival at the ear of the user. The method further comprises receiving and processing at least one audio input signal and distributing at least one processed version of the audio input signal at least between 4 kHz and 12 kHz over at least two physical sound sources for each ear.

Claim (Index 9):
The method of  claim 6 , wherein\n the panning factors for distributing at least one processed version of one input audio signal over at least two physical sound sources arranged at positions closer to a second ear, are equal to panning factors for distributing at least one processed version of the input audio signal over at least two physical sound sources arranged at similar positions relative to a first ear; the individual panning factor for each physical sound source closer to the first ear depends on a desired perceived direction of sound arrival from the virtual sound source at the user or the user's first ear, and further depends on either the direction of sound arrival from each of the at least two physical sound sources at the first ear of the user, or on the direction associated with the natural directional pinna cues induced acoustically at the pinna of the user's first ear by each of the at least two physical sound sources; and the first ear of the user is the ear on the same side of the user's head as the desired perceived direction of sound arrival from a virtual sound source at the user.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.37313
- Patent Class: 381.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15860489', '15860468', '14009079', '15123934', '15592736']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6994011761587887
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5363934635813603
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.683100404901046
- Mean Citation Score: 291.025972
- Max Citation Score: 348.10684
- Similarity Product: 232.5789770894575

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

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