PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15748950
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["701", "446000"]

Abstract:
A travel control method includes estimating the position of a subject vehicle on the basis of a detection result of a first detector, detecting a lane in which the subject vehicle travels, on the basis of a detection result of a second detector, determining that whether the position of the subject vehicle based on the positional information is included in the lane and outputting the determination as a first determination result, and determining that whether the position of the subject vehicle estimated on the basis of the detection result of the first detector is included in the lane and outputting the determination as a second determination result, and a step of performing a position estimation process of estimating the position of the subject vehicle on the basis of the detection result of the first detector when the first determination result and the second determination result are not identical.

Claim (Index 8):
A travel control method executed by a travel control apparatus, the travel control apparatus comprising:\n a receiver receiving positional information of a subject vehicle from an external device; a first detector equipped in the subject vehicle and detecting a state of the subject vehicle; a second detector detecting a situation around the subject vehicle; and a controller configured to estimate a position of the subject vehicle, the controller being further configured to:\n estimate the position of the subject vehicle on a basis of a detection result of the first detector; \n detect a lane in which the subject vehicle travels, on a basis of a detection result of the second detector; \n perform a first determination process of determining that whether or not the position of the subject vehicle based on the positional information is included in the lane and output a first determination result obtained by the first determination process; \n perform a second determination process of determining that whether or not the position of the subject vehicle estimated on the basis of the detection result of the first detector is included in the lane and output a second determination result obtained by the second determination process; and \n estimate the position of the subject vehicle on the basis of the detection result of the first detector when the first determination result and the second determination result are not identical.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.2766
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15763369', '15747976', '15748070', '16072238', '15748023']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3810798915227014
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4662523795516651
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3895971403255978
- Mean Citation Score: 170.296992
- Max Citation Score: 188.49823
- Similarity Product: 158.70202865407944

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

Dataset: test