PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15936271
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["342", "070000"]

Abstract:
A variety of methods, controllers and algorithms are described for identifying the back of a particular vehicle (e.g., a platoon partner) in a set of distance measurement scenes and/or for tracking the back of such a vehicle. The described techniques can be used in conjunction with a variety of different distance measuring technologies including radar, LIDAR, camera based distance measuring units and others. The described approaches are well suited for use in vehicle platooning and/or vehicle convoying systems including tractor-trailer truck platooning applications. In another aspect, technique are described for fusing sensor data obtained from different vehicles for use in the at least partial automatic control of a particular vehicle. The described techniques are well suited for use in conjunction with a variety of different vehicle control applications including platooning, convoying and other connected driving applications including tractor-trailer truck platooning applications.

Claim (Index 36):
A connected vehicle control system for at least partially automatically controlling a host vehicle based at least in part on a measured distance to a second vehicle, the connected vehicle control system including comprising:\n a distance measurement unit for sensing a distance from the host vehicle to the second vehicle; a communications unit for receiving information about the second vehicle from the second vehicle via a communication link; a verification unit configured to utilize the received second vehicle information in a determination of whether the sensed distance to the second vehicle is a valid measurement of the distance to the second vehicle; and a vehicle controller for at least partially automatically controlling the host vehicle based at least in part on an aspect of the validated measurement of the distance to the second vehicle.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.02632
- Patent Class: 342.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15590803', '15607902', '15860024', '15605456', '15926813']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5579072145846617
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5662628461393803
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5587427777401336
- Mean Citation Score: 256.95166800000004
- Max Citation Score: 406.68365
- Similarity Product: 328.45595308403966

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