PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15962272
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["340", "905000"]

Abstract:
A controller for the anticipatory influencing of the speed of a motor vehicle has the steps: repeatedly determining and evaluating a traffic situation ahead of the host motor vehicle on the roadway currently traveled, as well as the position of the host motor vehicle on the roadway; comparing the determined and evaluated traffic situation to a current driving situation of the host motor vehicle; and determining whether a reduction in the speed of the host motor vehicle, taking into account the determined traffic situation ahead of the host motor vehicle at a distance to be established ahead of the host motor vehicle, in the traffic situation (i) is beneficial to an extent to be established and (ii) is reducible to a target speed to be established, without braking intervention, taking into account the current speed of the host motor vehicle and the distance of the determined traffic situation from the host motor vehicle; and as a function of the determined traffic situation, applying a counterforce to an accelerator pedal against a force applied by the driver, wherein the counterforce is to be dimensioned and/or modulated in the sense of signaling to the driver that he/she is to reduce a force currently applied to the accelerator pedal by the driver.

Claim (Index 1):
A control system for the anticipatory influencing of the speed, based on a surroundings sensor system of a host motor vehicle and/or on maps, combined with a current position determination, wherein\n the surroundings sensor system and/or the position determination is/are configured for determining the traffic situation ahead of the host motor vehicle on the roadway currently traveled, as well as the position of the host motor vehicle on the roadway; an accelerator pedal is provided that is configured for a speed intent, for increasing the speed of the host vehicle, being applied to it by the driver as a force; the accelerator pedal has an actuator that is configured for a counterforce, opposite the force, being applied to the accelerator pedal by the driver in a targeted manner; a controller is provided and configured for: repeatedly determining and evaluating the traffic situation ahead of the host motor vehicle and comparing it to a current driving situation of the host motor vehicle; and determining whether a reduction in the speed of the host motor vehicle, taking into account the determined traffic situation ahead of the host motor vehicle at a distance to be established ahead of the host motor vehicle, in the traffic situation (i) is beneficial to an extent to be established and (ii) is reducible to a target speed to be established, without braking intervention, taking into account the current speed of the host motor vehicle and the distance of the determined traffic situation from the host motor vehicle; and as a function of the determination, applying a counterforce to the accelerator pedal which is to be dimensioned and/or modulated in the sense of signaling to the driver that he/she is to reduce a force currently applied to the accelerator pedal by the driver.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.77778
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15940208', '15840556', '15673668', '11481055', '13823795']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7140672707776405
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4856441178994711
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6912249554898235
- Mean Citation Score: 218.95019
- Max Citation Score: 224.66237
- Similarity Product: 191.8641216960323

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