PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15762375
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["362", "538000"]

Abstract:
The invention is directed to methods and devices to improve light patterns used to inform or assist an observer or a driver. The invention is related to an illuminating device and to a method for projecting a pre-definable light pattern using the illuminating device of the vehicle into an area surrounding the vehicle. According to the invention, a projection surface is determined in the area surrounding the vehicle, a position of a predefined observer has been determined or provided, and a light unit of the illuminating device is controlled pixel-wise according to the determined projection surface and the determined position of the predefined observer in order to produce the pre-definable light pattern.

Claim (Index 18):
The illuminating device according to  claim 15 , wherein the control device is configured to pixel-wise control the light unit further based on a second vehicle in front of the vehicle, an oncoming vehicle, current vehicle data, information from or about a driver of the vehicle, or a distance of the pre-definable light pattern from the vehicle.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 46.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.26923
- Patent Class: 362.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16491719', '16303648', '15759636', '15720412', '11500141']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8108563322164466
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4610029843476684
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7758709974295688
- Mean Citation Score: 131.5249278
- Max Citation Score: 160.4659
- Similarity Product: 130.26944135057332

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