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 24):
A travel control apparatus comprising:\n a first detector configured to detect an obstacle around a subject vehicle traveling in a first lane; a second detector configured to detect a second lane adjacent to the first lane; and a controller configured to:\n 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; \n 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 \n permit lane change of the subject vehicle when the second range includes the first range, \n wherein, when the second range becomes small after initiating the lane change as compared with the second range before initiating the lane change, the controller determines 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): 0.5112317682766379
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5198055027809906
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5120891417270732
- Mean Citation Score: 323.451336
- Max Citation Score: 357.2731
- Similarity Product: 355.0719069501758

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