PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15914508
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["701", "036000"]

Abstract:
A headlight control apparatus that controls an illumination state of a headlight that illuminates an area ahead of a vehicle includes an illuminance sensor that detects luminance around the vehicle, an illumination control section that switches on or off the headlight in accordance with the luminance detected by the illuminance sensor, a forward detection sensor that detects an object that is present within a predetermined distance ahead of the vehicle, and a dimming control section that dims the headlight when the forward detection sensor detects an object after start of the vehicle.

Claim (Index 1):
A headlight control apparatus that controls an illumination state of a headlight that illuminates an area ahead of a vehicle, comprising:\n a forward detecting section that detects a building that is present within a predetermined distance ahead of the vehicle; and a dimming control section that dims the headlight when the forward detecting section detects the building.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15315558', '16344114', '14489553', '14386251', '14314511']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4333978512442061
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5767657491488475
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4477346410346703
- Mean Citation Score: 265.581104
- Max Citation Score: 486.24065999999993
- Similarity Product: 430.6637521917843

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