PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15748023
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["701", "301000"]

Abstract:
A travel control method comprises a step of determining, when the second range becomes small after initiating the lane change as compared with the second range before initiating the lane change, at least one of a method of presenting information to a driver of the subject vehicle when discontinuing or continuing the lane change, a control content after discontinuing or continuing the lane change, and a travel position of the subject vehicle in a road width direction on a basis of a positional relationship in the road width direction between a lane mark which the subject vehicle gets across in the lane change and the subject vehicle.

Claim (Index 1):
A travel control method executed by a travel control apparatus, the travel control apparatus comprising:\n a first detector configured to detect an obstacle around a subject vehicle traveling in a first lane; and a second detector configured to detect a second lane adjacent to the first lane, the travel control apparatus being configured to: set a first range at a target position for lane change in the second lane, the first range having a size equal to or larger than a size which the subject vehicle occupies on a road surface; detect a range in the second lane as a second range, the range in the second lane being located at a side of the subject vehicle, the obstacle being absent in the range in the second lane; and execute lane change of the subject vehicle when the second range includes the first range, the travel control method comprising a step of determining, when the second range becomes small after initiating the lane change as compared with the second range before initiating the lane change, at least one of a method of presenting information to a driver of the subject vehicle when discontinuing or continuing the lane change, a control content after discontinuing or continuing the lane change, and a travel position of the subject vehicle in a road width direction on a basis of a positional relationship in the road width direction between a lane mark which the subject vehicle gets across in the lane change and the subject vehicle.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.11321
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15747916', '15747976', '15747885', '15748070', '15506978']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.511294909720192
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5199224141152047
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5121576601596932
- Mean Citation Score: 323.451336
- Max Citation Score: 357.2731
- Similarity Product: 351.3918518708825

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

Dataset: test