PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15940674
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["340", "435000"]

Abstract:
A driving assistance system for a vehicle has a longer-distance sensor device for determining longer-distance information between a vehicle and an obstacle, and a shorter-distance sensor device for determining shorter-distance information between the vehicle and the obstacle. A dual-mode light emitting diode (LED module) can selectively emit both visible light and infrared light, and is part of the vehicle's driving-lights system, such as a headlight and/or a reversing light. The LED module emits infrared light when operating as part of the shorter-distance sensor device and an infrared receiver detects the reflected infrared light for distance determination. The longer-distance sensor device uses ultrasonic waves to determine distance information, and when it indicates that the distance has fallen below a threshold distance (below which the longer-distance sensing device is not reliable), a controller activates the shorter-distance sensing device.

Claim (Index 15):
The method of  claim 12 , further comprising\n in response to a determination that the vehicle is executing a parking maneuver, operating the controller to activate the LED module to emit infrared light, and activate the receiver to detect infrared light reflected from the object, and determine distance to the object therefrom.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.11268
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12914057', '14042798', '11659516', '14236964', '11585768']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6573846377402589
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4927832640835533
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6409245003745883
- Mean Citation Score: 156.259994
- Max Citation Score: 163.20445
- Similarity Product: 106.63748670809863

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