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 1):
A vehicle control device comprising:\n a first detection unit that detects a traveling state including at least a position and a speed of a host vehicle; a merging detection unit that detects that the host vehicle approaches within a predetermined area of a merging point on a road in which a merging road and a main road join together at the merging point when the host vehicle travels on the merging road toward the merging point; 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 sets a pre-merging point as a virtual point moving on the main road toward the merging point according to the lane flow, the pre-merging point reaching the merging point when the host vehicle reaches the merging point, and obtains a position of the pre-merging point on the main road at a present time based on a time required for the host vehicle to reach the merging point and the speed of the lane flow on the main road when the host vehicle approaches within the predetermined area of the merging point; and a display control unit that controls a display device to display the position of the host vehicle on the merging road at the present time and the position of the pre-merging point on the main road at the present time.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.78846
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11498062', '15831524', '11342579', '15423795', '14045319']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4454081530658615
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4663736466119813
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4475047024204735
- Mean Citation Score: 211.586976
- Max Citation Score: 220.30592
- Similarity Product: 193.5946471156311

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