PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15753812
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["701", "301000"]

Abstract:
Disclosed herein is a vehicle control device reducing a driving force generated by an engine of a vehicle to prevent the vehicle from colliding with a forward obstacle. The vehicle control device includes an ECU configured to control the driving force, an ultrasonic sensor configured to detect the forward obstacle in front of the vehicle, and a monocular camera configured to take an image of an area in front of the vehicle. The ECU determines the presence or absence of the forward obstacle in front of the vehicle based on the image taken with the monocular camera while the vehicle is travelling, and changes an upper limit of the driving force in accordance with a combination of whether or not the ultrasonic sensor has detected an object and the presence or absence of the forward obstacle determined based on the image taken with the monocular camera.

Claim (Index 2):
The vehicle control device of  claim 1 , wherein\n the obstacle determining unit determines a type of the forward obstacle in front of the vehicle, based on the image taken with the monocular camera while the vehicle is travelling, and the driving force controller changes the upper limit of the driving force generated by the power source in accordance with a combination of whether or not the detector has detected an object and the type of the forward obstacle determined by the obstacle determining unit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.53333
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15729811', '13384017', '15362178', '15362062', '12513934']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.455635776057064
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4610988647768171
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4561820849290393
- Mean Citation Score: 167.44865800000005
- Max Citation Score: 176.59616
- Similarity Product: 143.83594677627562

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