PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15896402
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["701", "049000"]

Abstract:
A non-contact obstacle detection (NCOD) system for an opening in a vehicle includes a cover panel, such as a glass pane, slidable between opened and closed positions within the opening. The system includes one or more infrared time-of-flight (IR-TOF) sensors which measure the length of a beam of infrared light by measuring the time that the infrared light in the beam takes to travel the length of the beam and to reflect back to the sensor. The IR-TOF sensors may be configured to provide a beam of light along either the side edge of the frame parallel to the sliding direction or a terminal edge generally transverse to the sliding direction. Methods are provided for detecting obstacles within the opening of the frame by controllers using the lengths of beams from each of those different beam configurations, and for self-calibrating the system.

Claim (Index 1):
A non-contact obstacle detection system for an opening in a vehicle comprising:\n a cover panel slidable in a sliding direction from an open position to a closed position; a frame defining an opening including a first side edge generally parallel to the sliding direction, and a terminal edge generally transverse to the sliding direction; wherein the cover panel includes a leading edge abutting the terminal edge with the cover panel in the closed position to completely enclose the opening in the frame, and wherein the leading edge is spaced apart from the terminal edge in the open position; a first IR-TOF sensor disposed adjacent the terminal edge of the frame and providing a first beam within the frame along and adjacent to the first side edge and reflecting from the leading edge of the cover panel for detecting an obstacle within the opening as the cover panel is moved toward the closed position; a first controller in communication with the first IR-TOF sensor and configured to detect the obstacle within the opening by sensing an actual length of the first beam.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 25.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.8
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15493285', '11756786', '12008430', '15589224', '15490295']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3723187107891453
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4679350014386914
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3818803398540999
- Mean Citation Score: 151.34718000000004
- Max Citation Score: 168.65672
- Similarity Product: 132.34133538873672

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

Dataset: test