PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15936271
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["342", "070000"]

Abstract:
A variety of methods, controllers and algorithms are described for identifying the back of a particular vehicle (e.g., a platoon partner) in a set of distance measurement scenes and/or for tracking the back of such a vehicle. The described techniques can be used in conjunction with a variety of different distance measuring technologies including radar, LIDAR, camera based distance measuring units and others. The described approaches are well suited for use in vehicle platooning and/or vehicle convoying systems including tractor-trailer truck platooning applications. In another aspect, technique are described for fusing sensor data obtained from different vehicles for use in the at least partial automatic control of a particular vehicle. The described techniques are well suited for use in conjunction with a variety of different vehicle control applications including platooning, convoying and other connected driving applications including tractor-trailer truck platooning applications.

Claim (Index 46):
A method comprising:\n at a first vehicle, utilizing a distance measurement unit to measure a distance from the first vehicle to a second vehicle, the distance measurement unit selected from the group consisting of a radar unit and a lidar unit; receiving at the first vehicle from the second vehicle, information about the second vehicle via a communication link, the information about the second vehicle including at least one selected from the group consisting of (i) a current position or relative position of the second vehicle, (ii) a global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) position measurement of a current position of the second vehicle, (iii) speed information indicative of a speed or relative speed of the second vehicle, (iv) an indication of at least one of an acceleration, an orientation, a steering angle, a yaw rate, a tilt, an incline, or a lateral motion of the second vehicle; or (v) a predicted state of the second vehicle, the predicted state including at least one of a predicted position, a predicted speed, a predicted acceleration, a predicted orientation, a predicted yaw rate, a predicted tilt, a predicted incline and a predicted lateral motion of the second vehicle; utilizing the received second vehicle information to estimate a state of the second vehicle\u2032 utilizing the estimated state of the second vehicle in a determination of whether the measured distance from the first vehicle to the second vehicle is a valid measurement; and determining control commands for at least partially automatically controlling the first vehicle based at least in part on the validated distance measurement.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.02632
- Patent Class: 342.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15590803', '15607902', '15860024', '15605456', '15926813']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5606750259469078
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5622514992148289
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5608326732736999
- Mean Citation Score: 256.95166800000004
- Max Citation Score: 406.68365
- Similarity Product: 267.053596852386

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