PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15942670
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["340", "435000"]

Abstract:
A method to operate a motor vehicle is provided. The method comprises capturing an image of the road ahead of the vehicle; determining a limit point on a first side of a lane of the road in which the vehicle is travelling, at which the first side appears to substantially converge with a second side of the lane within the image; determining a limit line extending across the road from the limit point in a direction perpendicular to the first and/or second sides of the lane; determining a limit distance between the vehicle and the limit line; determining a stopping distance of the vehicle according to the current speed of the vehicle; and alerting a driver of the vehicle if the stopping distance is greater than the limit distance. A safety system for a vehicle is also provided.

Claim (Index 1):
A method to operate a vehicle, the method comprising:\n capturing an image of a road ahead using a camera; determining a limit point on a first side of a travelling lane of the road, at which the first side substantially converges with a second side of the lane within the image; determining a limit line extending across the road from the limit point in a direction perpendicular to the first and second sides of the lane; determining which side of the lane is at an inside of a corner in the road visible in the image, wherein the first side is a side determined to be at the inside of the corner; determining a further limit point on the second side of the lane at which the first side of the lane appears to substantially converge with the second side within the image, wherein the limit line passes through a closer of the limit point and the further limit point to the vehicle; determining a limit distance between the vehicle and the limit line; determining a stopping distance according to a current vehicle speed; and alerting a driver if the stopping distance is greater than the limit distance.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.37097
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15349995', '14812899', '15625761', '15647699', '15799119']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6260547702541277
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4774699194260714
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6111962851713221
- Mean Citation Score: 172.377332
- Max Citation Score: 175.8616
- Similarity Product: 143.94549427185058

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