PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15896402
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["701", "049000"]

Abstract:
A non-contact obstacle detection (NCOD) system for an opening in a vehicle includes a cover panel, such as a glass pane, slidable between opened and closed positions within the opening. The system includes one or more infrared time-of-flight (IR-TOF) sensors which measure the length of a beam of infrared light by measuring the time that the infrared light in the beam takes to travel the length of the beam and to reflect back to the sensor. The IR-TOF sensors may be configured to provide a beam of light along either the side edge of the frame parallel to the sliding direction or a terminal edge generally transverse to the sliding direction. Methods are provided for detecting obstacles within the opening of the frame by controllers using the lengths of beams from each of those different beam configurations, and for self-calibrating the system.

Claim (Index 17):
The method for a non-contact obstacle detection system of  claim 15 , further including:\n self-calibrating the non-contact obstacle detection system by updating the expected closing velocity of the cover panel using the actual closing velocity of the cover panel.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 25.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.8
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15493285', '11756786', '12008430', '15589224', '15490295']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3993632985133961
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.474707982782224
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4068977669402789
- Mean Citation Score: 151.34718000000004
- Max Citation Score: 168.65672
- Similarity Product: 127.5376211750412

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