PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16135362
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["701", "023000"]

Abstract:
A method for determining an incline of a road on which a vehicle is located includes importing image data of an environment of the vehicle, the image data being generated by an image sensor. The method further includes identifying a defined reference object in the environment of the vehicle from the image data and identifying a relationship between the identified reference object and a defined reference system of the image sensor. The method also includes estimating the incline of the road on the basis of the identified relationship and providing a signal representing the incline of the road.

Claim (Index 11):
A method for operating a braking device of a vehicle, the method comprising:\n identifying an insufficient calculation of an incline of a road using an acceleration sensor; using image data to identify the incline of the road in response to identifying the insufficient calculation by:\n (i) importing image data of an environment of the vehicle, the image data being generated by an image sensor, \n (ii) identifying a defined reference object in the environment of the vehicle from the imported image data, \n (iii) identifying a relationship between the identified defined reference object and a defined reference system of the image sensor, and \n (iv) estimating the incline of the road based on the identified relationship, providing the signal estimating the incline of the road to an assistance system; and \n controlling the assistance system in consideration of the signal estimating the incline of the road.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.26667
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15023485', '11663909', '10427051', '13651659', '13105594']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.415468900418356
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4792890303537955
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4218509134118999
- Mean Citation Score: 168.57233200000005
- Max Citation Score: 184.76656
- Similarity Product: 134.43085886003493

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