PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15945332
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["701", "023000"]

Abstract:
An operational design domain decision apparatus includes: a position estimation unit configured to estimate a vehicle position; a traffic map database in which a restriction related to a vehicle speed and a position are associated with each other; a rule acquisition unit configured to acquire the restriction; a required value calculation unit configured to calculate a required detection distance at which it is necessary for an object detection sensor equipped in the vehicle to have detected a moving object for execution of a predetermined automatic driving; a distance measurement unit configured to calculate a detectable distance based on a detection result of the object detection sensor; and a determination unit configured to determine that the automatic driving system is in the operational design domain, when the detectable distance is equal to or more than the required detection distance.

Claim (Index 1):
An operational design domain decision apparatus comprising\n a traffic map database in which a restriction related to a vehicle speed and a position corresponding to the restriction are associated with each other, and an electronic control unit configured to:\n estimate a vehicle position of a vehicle; \n acquire the restriction, based on the vehicle position and the traffic map database; \n calculate, based on the restriction, a required detection distance at which it is necessary for an object detection sensor equipped in the vehicle to have detected a moving object for execution of a predetermined automatic driving of the vehicle, the object detection sensor being configured to detect the moving object; \n calculate a detectable distance based on a detection result of the object detection sensor, the detectable distance being a distance within which the moving object is detectable by the object detection sensor; \n determine that an automatic driving system executing the predetermined automatic driving of the vehicle is in the operational design domain, when the detectable distance is equal to or more than the required detection distance; and \n execute the predetermined automatic driving based on a result of a decision whether the automatic driving system is in the operational design domain.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.97297
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15535203', '15297259', '10458619', '15849198', '15614918']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4259507360603051
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4531320582209178
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4286688682763664
- Mean Citation Score: 171.36318999999995
- Max Citation Score: 181.03348
- Similarity Product: 156.48972631212234

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