PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15966123
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["340", "467000"]

Abstract:
Methods and systems for vehicle safety lighting are disclosed, including a system having a multi-axis accelerometer that detects acceleration of the vehicle along a first axis and a second axis normal to the first axis, and outputs a corresponding first axis acceleration measurement and a second axis acceleration measurement. A controller is coupled to the multi-axis accelerometer, and to an array of light emitter elements (LELs). The controller is configured to determine a vehicle deceleration, based at least in part on a combination of the first axis acceleration measurement and second axis acceleration measurement, and to detect the vehicle deceleration exceeding a brake light threshold and, based at least in part on the detection, output a deceleration light signal to the array of LELs. Digital filtering prevents operation of the safety lighting by accelerometer outputs unrelated to axial deceleration, such as will occur upon encountering a hill, or, in the case of a motorcycle or the like, leaning into a turn.

Claim (Index 17):
The vehicle safety lighting system of  claim 11  wherein the controller is further configured to:\n detect, based at least in part on a combination of the sequence of filtered first axis acceleration samples and the sequence of filtered third axis acceleration samples, a climbing or descending of an incline by the vehicle, and \n based at least in part on the detecting the climbing or descending of an incline by the vehicle, to preempt output of the brake light activation signal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.17073
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15647208', '13361617', '14144987', '10972050', '10302700']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6404597070613887
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4866380904684206
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6250775454020919
- Mean Citation Score: 146.45132800000005
- Max Citation Score: 147.1432
- Similarity Product: 106.14122318577768

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