PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15968811
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["356", "600000"]

Abstract:
A road surface detection system for a vehicle includes an optical emitter disposed at the vehicle and configured to emit a beam of light downward and forward of the vehicle. A receiver is disposed at the vehicle so as to receive light emitted by the optical emitter that is scattered or reflected from the road surface. The receiver includes a prism and an imager, and the prism refracts the light so that the imager captures received light that is refracted by the prism. A control includes a processor operable to process image data captured by the imager. The control, responsive to processing of image data captured by the imager, determines spectral characteristics of materials present on the road surface. The control may determine the type of material present on the road surface by determining the parts of the spectrum absorbed by the material.

Claim (Index 1):
A road surface detection system for a vehicle, said road surface detection system comprising:\n an optical emitter disposed at a vehicle and configured to emit a beam of light downward and forward of the vehicle; a receiver disposed at the vehicle so as to receive light emitted by said optical emitter that is scattered or reflected from the road surface; wherein said receiver comprises a prism and an imager, and wherein said prism refracts the received light so that the imager captures image data representative of received light that is emitted by said optical emitter and scattered or reflected from the road surface and refracted by said prism; a control comprising a processor operable to process image data captured by said imager; and wherein said control, responsive to processing by said processor of image data captured by said imager that is representative of received light that is emitted by said optical emitter and scattered or reflected from the road surface and refracted by said prism, determines a spectral characteristic for materials present at the road surface.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.23529
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12883621', '13689798', '13942757', '15866503', '12802994']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7004051279716519
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4290824311914564
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6732728582936324
- Mean Citation Score: 122.1946012
- Max Citation Score: 126.51434
- Similarity Product: 98.5498955160451

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

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