PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16072020
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["340", "425500"]

Abstract:
It is an object of the present invention to provide a notification control apparatus and a notification control method capable of previously notifying a passenger of a change of a motion of a vehicle travelling automatically. A notification control apparatus according to the present invention includes: a processor to execute a program; and a memory to store the program which, when executed by the processor, performs processes of, acquiring travel condition information which is information indicating a future travel condition of the vehicle, generating a sound image pattern based on the travel condition information, and generating a notification sound in accordance with the sound image pattern and, controlling the output of the notification sound, wherein the travel condition information includes information of a future course of the vehicle, and when the course is changed, the sound image pattern in accordance with the course being changed is generated.

Claim (Index 6):
The notification control apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein\n the travel condition information further includes information of a future speed of the vehicle, and when a degree of change of the speed is equal to or smaller than a threshold value, the sound image pattern and the original sound are not generated.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.46154
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14357225', '13001827', '11016883', '13576592', '14370684']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6555839182830001
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5021827630057589
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6402438027552759
- Mean Citation Score: 177.36113600000004
- Max Citation Score: 182.92795
- Similarity Product: 124.61066630788744

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

Dataset: test