Patent Document ID: 20070136040
Application ID: 11302675
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A method of determining the probability that a statistical model describes the driving style of a vehicle observed from time step k to present, said method comprising: (a) establishing at least one statistical model of driving style, wherein said at least one statistical model is a conditional probability model that describes probability of conditions at a next time step k+1, given conditions at said time step k; (b) determining initial probability distribution of said at least one statistical model of driving style; (c) determining probability of an observed transition being predicted by said at least one statistical model of driving style; (d) calculating probability of said at least one statistical model explaining driving style of said vehicle observed at said next time step k+1; and wherein said (c) determining the probability of said observed transition and said (d) calculating probability of said at least one statistical model are iterated for all time steps until present.