PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15864594
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["348", "207990"]

Abstract:
A camera module for an occupant monitoring system is disclosed. The camera module includes a housing with an interior chamber and an aperture on one surface. An image sensor is position within the chamber and aligned with the aperture. A lens is positioned between the image sensor and the aperture along an optical axis to focus light entering the aperture onto the image sensor. To reflect light into the aperture from a field of view that is not along the optical axis, the camera module includes a planar reflector that extends at an angle from the surface of the housing and over the aperture.

Claim (Index 9):
An occupant monitoring system for a vehicle, comprising:\n a steering-column housing, the steering-column housing defining a steering-column aperture and a steering-column chamber; a camera module, comprising:\n a module housing defining a module chamber and a module aperture on a surface of the module housing, the module aperture allowing light to enter the module chamber, \n an image sensor positioned within the module chamber and aligned with the module aperture, wherein the image sensor and the module aperture define an optical axis, \n a lens positioned along the optical axis between the image sensor and the module aperture, the lens focusing light entering the module aperture onto the image sensor, and \n a planar reflector, extending over the module aperture from the surface of the module housing, that reflects light into the module aperture from a field of view that is not along the optical axis; and \n wherein the camera module is disposed in the steering-column chamber so that the planar reflector extends through the steering-column aperture and so that the field of view contains an occupant in the vehicle.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.92982
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14586224', '14586124', '15391887', '14586188', '11830682']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6183080383597355
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4826567006905945
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6047429045928214
- Mean Citation Score: 196.413848
- Max Citation Score: 219.21289
- Similarity Product: 169.35909555284917

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

Dataset: test