PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15914508
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["701", "036000"]

Abstract:
A headlight control apparatus that controls an illumination state of a headlight that illuminates an area ahead of a vehicle includes an illuminance sensor that detects luminance around the vehicle, an illumination control section that switches on or off the headlight in accordance with the luminance detected by the illuminance sensor, a forward detection sensor that detects an object that is present within a predetermined distance ahead of the vehicle, and a dimming control section that dims the headlight when the forward detection sensor detects an object after start of the vehicle.

Claim (Index 6):
The headlight control apparatus according to  claim 2 , further comprising a parking area recognition section that recognizes whether the vehicle has moved to a parking area, wherein:\n when the vehicle recognized by the parking area recognition section as having moved to the parking area stops, the stopped state storage section stores the stopped state with inclusion that the vehicle has been parked in the parking area; and when the forward detecting section detects the building after start of the vehicle, and when the stopped state stored by the stopped state storage section includes that the vehicle has been parked in the parking area, the dimming control section dims the headlight.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15315558', '16344114', '14489553', '14386251', '14314511']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4408262672099111
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5597460176081567
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4527182422497356
- Mean Citation Score: 265.581104
- Max Citation Score: 486.24065999999993
- Similarity Product: 335.713074108274

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