PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16271612
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-02
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["701", "414000"]

Abstract:
A relative atlas may be used to lay out elements in a digital map used in the control of an autonomous vehicle. A vehicle pose for the autonomous vehicle within a geographical area may be determined, and the relative atlas may be accessed to identify elements in the geographical area and to determine relative poses between those elements. The elements may then be laid out within the digital map using the determined relative poses, e.g., for use in planning vehicle trajectories, for estimating the states of traffic controls, or for tracking and/or identifying dynamic objects, among other purposes.

Claim (Index 1):
A method comprising:\n determining a vehicle pose for an autonomous vehicle in a geographical area, wherein determining the vehicle pose includes:\n obtaining sensor data from one or more sensors of the autonomous vehicle; and \n identifying a position and orientation of the autonomous vehicle within the geographical area using the sensor data; \n obtaining data from a relative atlas, the data being associated with the geographical area; identifying, based on the data obtained from the relative atlas, a first element and a second element in the geographical area, wherein the first element represents a first gate and the second element represents a second gate, each of the first gate and the second gate representing a respective vehicle pose for the autonomous vehicle in the geographical area; determining, based upon the data obtained from the relative atlas, a relative pose that associates the first gate with the second gate in the geographical area; inserting, in a digital map, the first gate and the second gate using the relative pose, wherein inserting the first gate and the second gate in the digital map using the relative pose includes:\n inserting the first gate at a first position in the digital map; \n determining a second position for the second gate relative to the first position using the relative pose; and \n inserting the second gate at the second position in the digital map; \n determining a particular path with respect to the vehicle pose using the first gate and the second gate in the digital map; and in response to determining the particular path, providing data identifying the particular path to the autonomous vehicle such that the autonomous vehicle is operated autonomously based on the particular path.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.91071
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15940525', '15940516', '15857606', '15857602', '15857611']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4241375158570997
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5840602821592176
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4401297924873115
- Mean Citation Score: 337.5576220000001
- Max Citation Score: 507.66803
- Similarity Product: 421.1339707863426

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

Dataset: test