PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16175789
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["340", "576000"]

Abstract:
If an alert to distracted driving is disabled, the driver can be alerted insufficiently in situations that take attention. An alert control apparatus ( 300 ) includes data obtaining units ( 41  to  43 ) that obtain sensing data (a to j) from sensors ( 6  to  15 ), a railroad crossing recognizer ( 44 ) that recognizes a railroad crossing in front of a vehicle based on the sensing data, and a crossing entry determiner ( 45 ) that determines whether the vehicle has entered the railroad crossing based on the sensing data, and a criterion changer ( 46 ) that sets, for an area defined in front of the vehicle, a determination criterion defined for causing a distracted driving alert device ( 200 ) to generate an alert in response to detection of the vehicle entering the railroad crossing.

Claim (Index 1):
An alert control apparatus installable in a vehicle to control an alert device that alerts a driver, the apparatus comprising:\n a data obtaining unit configured to obtain sensing data from a sensor included in the vehicle; a gaze detector configured to detect a gaze or a face orientation of the driver based on the obtained sensing data; a distracted driving determiner configured to determine distracted driving of the driver based on the detected gaze or face orientation and a determination criterion for detecting distracted driving of the driver; a controller configured to cause the alert device to generate an alert in response to detection of distracted driving; and a recognizer configured to recognize a situation that takes attention in driving the vehicle based on the obtained sensing data, wherein the controller controls, based on a recognition result from the recognizer, the alert device to prompt the driver to move the gaze in the situation that takes attention in driving the vehicle.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 59.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.04054
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15306595', '15398259', '15581070', '15074825', '10358978']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6723015763875246
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4670474012400649
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6517761588727787
- Mean Citation Score: 172.30775200000005
- Max Citation Score: 175.023
- Similarity Product: 146.68252278989553

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

Dataset: test