PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16256327
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["356", "239200"]

Abstract:
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for contamination prevention of vehicle cameras and sensors. An example vehicle includes an exterior, a camera along the exterior and including a lens, and a controller. The controller is to determine, based upon images captured by the camera, whether a contaminant is approaching the lens and identify a contaminant state upon determining the contaminant is approaching the lens. The example vehicle also includes a nozzle to spray washer fluid to prevent contamination of the lens responsive to the controller identifying that the contaminant is a liquid.

Claim (Index 1):
A vehicle comprising:\n a camera along an exterior of the vehicle and including a lens; a nozzle proximate the camera; and a processor to:\n determine, based upon images captured by the camera, whether a contaminant is approaching the lens on a trajectory; \n identify a contaminant state upon determining the contaminant is approaching the lens; and \n control the nozzle to spray washer fluid in front of the lens of the camera into the trajectory to intercept and prevent the contaminant from contacting the lens.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.94118
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15670691', '14320734', '14086746', '14004269', '15303329']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6440936994082136
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.530397269678261
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6327240564352183
- Mean Citation Score: 189.061748
- Max Citation Score: 349.65714
- Similarity Product: 301.14975050011043

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