PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16179984
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["340", "425500"]

Abstract:
An alert control apparatus includes a first obtaining unit that obtains first information about a gaze or face orientation of a driver, a distracted driving determiner that outputs a detection signal when detecting distracted driving, a second obtaining unit that obtains second information indicating whether an intersection is recognized, a third obtaining unit that obtains third information about a change in a vehicle traveling direction, an alert disabling unit that outputs a disabling signal disabling the detection signal in response to the intersection recognized and the traveling direction change detected, and an alert controller that outputs an instruction signal for an alert device to generate an alert in response to the detection signal output without the disabling signal, and outputs no instruction signal in response to the detection signal output with the disabling signal.

Claim (Index 7):
A method implemented by an alert control apparatus for controlling an alert device installed on a vehicle, the method comprising:\n obtaining, with the alert control apparatus, first information about a gaze or a face orientation of a driver; determining, with the alert control apparatus, whether the driver is engaging in distracted driving based on the gaze or the face orientation of the driver indicated by the first information and a determination condition for detecting distracted driving, and outputting a detection signal when detecting distracted driving; obtaining, with the alert control apparatus, second information indicating whether an intersection is recognized ahead of the vehicle in a traveling direction; obtaining, with the alert control apparatus, third information about a change in the traveling direction of the vehicle; outputting, with the alert control apparatus, a disabling signal for disabling the detection signal in response to the intersection being recognized and the change in the traveling direction being detected based on the second information and the third information; and outputting, with the alert control apparatus, an instruction signal for the alert device to generate an alert in response to the detection signal being output without the disabling signal being output, and outputting, with the alert control apparatus, no instruction signal in response to the detection signal being output with the disabling signal being output.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.47368
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16179975', '14939524', '15463759', '14143376', '15673956']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6242211143471029
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5048539477002436
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6122843976824169
- Mean Citation Score: 191.223266
- Max Citation Score: 253.99066
- Similarity Product: 210.6093352349257

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

Dataset: test