PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15744559
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["701", "023000"]

Abstract:
A vehicle control device includes: a first detection unit that detects a traveling state of a host vehicle; a merging detection unit that detects that the host vehicle approaches within a predetermined area of a merging point when the host vehicle travels on the merging road toward the merging point at which a main road joins with the merging road; a second detection unit that detects a speed of a lane flow by another vehicle that travels on the main road toward the merging point; a position detection unit that obtains a position of a pre-merging point as a virtual point on the main road reaching the merging point when the host vehicle reaches the merging point; and a display control unit that controls a display device to display the position of the host vehicle and the pre-merging point.

Claim (Index 6):
The vehicle control device according to  claim 1 , wherein:\n the display control unit displays the pre-merging point having a predetermined range along a direction of the main road in which the main road extends.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.78846
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11498062', '15831524', '11342579', '15423795', '14045319']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4740141359412886
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4724628816397968
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4738590105111395
- Mean Citation Score: 211.586976
- Max Citation Score: 220.30592
- Similarity Product: 186.4602387057495

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