PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16058795
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["348", "118000"]

Abstract:
Localizing a vehicle on the Earth's surface, via the registration of a map and real-time images of the vehicle's environment, is discussed. Both the map and real-time images are 2D representations of the surface, both are from an aerial-view perspective of the surface, and both are represented in a semantic-domain, rather than a visual-domain. The map is an aerial-view semantic map that includes 2D semantic representations of objects located on the surface. The semantic representations of the map indicate semantic labels and absolute positions of the objects. The real-time images are real-time aerial-view semantic images that include additional 2D semantic representations of the objects. The additional semantic representations of the real-time images indicate semantic labels and relative positions of the objects. Via image registration, the absolute position and orientation of the vehicle is determined based on a spatial and rotational correspondence between the absolute and relative positions of the objects.

Claim (Index 15):
A localization system comprising:\n one or more processors; and one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media, coupled with the one or more processors, having instructions stored thereon, which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the system to localize a vehicle on a surface of an environment by performing actions comprising:\n accessing a map that includes an aerial perspective of the surface and a first plurality of features that corresponds to a plurality of tangible objects on the surface; \n accessing a first image that includes a street-level perspective of the environment and a second plurality of features that corresponds to the plurality of tangible objects on the surface; \n generating a second image based on a transformation of the second plurality of features of the first image, such that the second image includes the aerial perspective of the surface and a third plurality of features that corresponds to the plurality of tangible objects on the surface; \n determining a correlation between the first plurality of features of the map and the third plurality of features of the second image; \n generating an alignment of the map and the second image based on the correlation between the first plurality of features and the third plurality of features; and \n determining a localization of the vehicle based on the alignment of the map and the second image and a coordinate system associated with the map.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.84483
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15699517', '14214343', '16029126', '15598727', '16313058']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6238973345616242
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4813393759155423
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6096415386970161
- Mean Citation Score: 207.60488
- Max Citation Score: 213.85077
- Similarity Product: 164.21871916630806

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