PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16068904
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["701", "023000"]

Abstract:
A vehicle control device includes a recognition unit that recognizes positions of nearby vehicles traveling around a host vehicle, a respective lane speed specification unit that specifies a first vehicle speed related to a vehicle traveling in a host lane in which the host vehicle is traveling and a second vehicle speed related to the nearby vehicle traveling in a lane that is a lane change destination of lane change to be performed by the host vehicle, a target position setting unit that sets a lane change target position on the lane that is the lane change destination on the basis of a comparison result between the first vehicle speed and the second vehicle speed, and a control unit that causes the host vehicle to move to the target position by lane change.

Claim (Index 9):
A vehicle control method comprising:\n recognizing, by an in-vehicle computer, positions of nearby vehicles traveling around a host vehicle; specifying, by the in-vehicle computer, a first vehicle speed related to a vehicle traveling in a host lane in which the host vehicle is traveling and a second vehicle speed related to a nearby vehicle traveling in a lane that is a lane change destination of lane change to be performed by the host vehicle; setting, by the in-vehicle computer, a lane change target position on the lane that is the lane change destination on the basis of a comparison result between the first vehicle speed and the second vehicle speed; and causing, by the in-vehicle computer, the host vehicle to move to the target position by lane change, wherein the vehicle control method further comprises; when the nearby vehicle traveling in the lane that is the lane change destination and traveling in front of the host vehicle is set as a front reference vehicle and the nearby vehicle traveling in the lane that is the lane change destination and traveling behind the host vehicle is set as a rear reference vehicle, setting, by the in-vehicle computer, a front side of the front reference vehicle as the target position when the first vehicle speed is faster than the second vehicle speed; and setting, by the in-vehicle computer, a rear side of the rear reference vehicle as the target position when the first vehicle speed is slower than the second vehicle speed.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 18.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.79592
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15456914', '15459598', '11125389', '15297259', '15229440']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.457732130793734
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4898954279397728
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4609484605083379
- Mean Citation Score: 244.035662
- Max Citation Score: 268.85907000000003
- Similarity Product: 222.29482343384743

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

Dataset: test