PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15902064
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["348", "148000"]

Abstract:
A commercial trailer camera interface for providing an apparatus and method for connecting video cameras and data buses from a trailer to the tow vehicle. The trailer camera interface generally includes a nose box, which affixes to the front of the trailer, a tail box which affixes inside the rear of the tow vehicle, and an umbilical cable which connects the nose box to the tail box. The nose box encodes the video signals, for example as differential signals, for transmission over the umbilical cable and the tail box decodes the received encoded signals to recover the video signals. The nose box and the tail box may each include a plurality of video camera connectors. The tail box may include a video handler to display or record or stream the video signals.

Claim (Index 18):
A data interface between a trailer and a tow vehicle, comprising:\n a nose box configured for mounting at a front of the trailer, the nose box including:\n a nose box enclosure, \n a first umbilical connector at the nose box enclosure, \n at least one video connector for a video camera at the nose box enclosure, \n an encoder in the nose box enclosure, the encoder being connected to receive a video signal from the at least one video connector and being operable to encode the video signal as an encoded video signal, the encoder being connected to output the encoded video signal at the first umbilical connector, the encoder is operable to generate a differential signal as the encoded video signal, the encoder includes at least one of:\n an NTSC analog to differential converter, \n a digital camera deserializer/serializer repeater, and \n an IP video camera power over Ethernet switch; \n a power distributor in the nose box enclosure and connected to the first umbilical connector, the power distributor having an output connected to the at least one video connector of the nose box; \n a data bus connector at the nose box, the data bus connector configured for connection to a data bus of the trailer, the data bus connector being connected to the encoder; \n a tail box configured for mounting at a rear of the tow vehicle, the tail box including:\n a tail box enclosure, \n a second umbilical connector at the tail box, \n a decoder in the tail box enclosure, the decoder being connected to receive the encoded video signal from the second umbilical connector, the decoder being operable to decode the video signal encoded in the encoded video signal, the decoder having a video signal output to output the decoded video signal, the decoder being operable to decode the differential signal to recover the video signal; \n a video handler in the tail box enclosure and connected to the video signal output of the decoder; \n at least one video connector at the tail box, the at least one video connector being configured for connection to a video camera mounted on the towing vehicle; \n a tow vehicle data bus connector at the tail box, the tow vehicle data bus connector connected to the decoder; \n a power conditioning circuit in the tail box, the power conditioning circuit having an input configured for connection to a power supply of the tow vehicle and having an output connected to the second umbilical connector and to the decoder; \n a wired umbilical cable connected between the first umbilical connector at the nose box and the second umbilical connector at the tail box, the umbilical cable being configured for carrying the encoded video signal from the nose box to the tail box; and a wireless cable connection to be used as an alternate to the umbilical cable to establish a data communication connection between the nose box and the tail box, the wireless cable connection being configured for carrying video and data signals between the nose box and the tail box.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.36667
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14784195', '14198765', '14816430', '10886216', '15092757']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6094345790881899
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4829293024132041
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5967840514206914
- Mean Citation Score: 159.32227600000004
- Max Citation Score: 162.43421999999995
- Similarity Product: 106.67864873477694

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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