PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16143459
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["340", "439000"]

Abstract:
On a vehicle traveling on a downward slope, a driver's intentional checking is erroneously determined to be distracted driving, thus generating an alert. An apparatus includes an image data obtaining unit that obtains image data about a driver, a distracted driving determiner that determines distracted driving based on a face orientation and gaze of the driver captured in the image data and a determination criterion, a traveling state obtaining unit that obtains traveling state data about the vehicle, a traveling state determiner that determines whether the vehicle is traveling downward based on the traveling state data, and a criterion changer that changes, when the vehicle is determined to be traveling downward, the determination criterion for an upward face orientation and the gaze of the driver from a value used when the vehicle is determined not to be traveling downward.

Claim (Index 9):
A distracted driving determination method performed by an apparatus for determining distracted driving of a driver of a vehicle, the method comprising:\n obtaining, with the apparatus, image data about the driver from an imaging unit mounted on the vehicle; determining, with the apparatus, distracted driving of the driver based on a face orientation and a gaze of the driver captured in the image data and a determination criterion for detecting distracted driving of the driver; obtaining, with the apparatus, traveling state data about the vehicle from a traveling state obtaining member mounted on the vehicle; determining, with the apparatus, whether the vehicle is traveling downward based on the traveling state data; and changing, with the apparatus, when the vehicle is determined to be traveling downward, the determination criterion for an upward face orientation and the gaze of the driver from a value used when the vehicle is determined not to be traveling downward.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.58621
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15306595', '15634504', '15166833', '13207547', '12439766']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6640169053383346
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4798315550124974
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6455983703057508
- Mean Citation Score: 166.06990000000005
- Max Citation Score: 173.53267
- Similarity Product: 130.59519758733154

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

Dataset: test