PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16214959
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["701", "041000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus for assisting driving of a host vehicle provides stable control of the host vehicle by using road conditions including intersections, crosswalks and the like, forward lane markings, and a preceding vehicle. The apparatus includes an image sensor to capture images of an area in front of the host vehicle, and a controller configured to recognize a road section having no lane markings on a drive path, or recognize forward lane markings. The controller performs lateral control of the host vehicle selectively based on the forward lane markings and the recognized preceding vehicle according to whether the road section having no lane markings is recognized.

Claim (Index 28):
The apparatus for assisting driving of a host vehicle of  claim 24 , wherein the controller is further configured to, when performing lateral steering control of the host vehicle based on the preceding vehicle:\n recognize, based on images captured by the image sensor, forward lane markings provided in the section of the road having lane markings in the direction in which the host vehicle is proceeding; and in response to recognizing the section of the road having lane markings, changing the lateral steering control of the host vehicle to perform lateral steering control of the host vehicle in the section of the road having lane markings based on the forward lane markings.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15652237', '15937944', '15673343', '15416214', '15608249']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.479868965518514
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5415514240048606
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4860372113671486
- Mean Citation Score: 266.581366
- Max Citation Score: 399.54773
- Similarity Product: 348.1382899188465

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