PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16256327
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["356", "239200"]

Abstract:
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for contamination prevention of vehicle cameras and sensors. An example vehicle includes an exterior, a camera along the exterior and including a lens, and a controller. The controller is to determine, based upon images captured by the camera, whether a contaminant is approaching the lens and identify a contaminant state upon determining the contaminant is approaching the lens. The example vehicle also includes a nozzle to spray washer fluid to prevent contamination of the lens responsive to the controller identifying that the contaminant is a liquid.

Claim (Index 6):
The vehicle of  claim 1 , wherein the processor determines that the contaminant is approaching the lens on the trajectory in response to a percentage occupied by the contaminant within subsequent ones of the images increases for a predetermined time threshold.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.94118
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15670691', '14320734', '14086746', '14004269', '15303329']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6707760543882314
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5323158527610842
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6569300342255167
- Mean Citation Score: 189.061748
- Max Citation Score: 349.65714
- Similarity Product: 308.6676886268234

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