PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15966123
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["340", "467000"]

Abstract:
Methods and systems for vehicle safety lighting are disclosed, including a system having a multi-axis accelerometer that detects acceleration of the vehicle along a first axis and a second axis normal to the first axis, and outputs a corresponding first axis acceleration measurement and a second axis acceleration measurement. A controller is coupled to the multi-axis accelerometer, and to an array of light emitter elements (LELs). The controller is configured to determine a vehicle deceleration, based at least in part on a combination of the first axis acceleration measurement and second axis acceleration measurement, and to detect the vehicle deceleration exceeding a brake light threshold and, based at least in part on the detection, output a deceleration light signal to the array of LELs. Digital filtering prevents operation of the safety lighting by accelerometer outputs unrelated to axial deceleration, such as will occur upon encountering a hill, or, in the case of a motorcycle or the like, leaning into a turn.

Claim (Index 18):
The vehicle safety lighting system of  claim 11 , wherein:\n the LEL support surface include a first lateral region and a second lateral region, arranged symmetrically about a bisector reference line on the LEL support surface, the array of LELs includes a plurality of first lateral region red LELs, mounted on the first lateral region, and a plurality of second lateral region red LELs, mounted on the second lateral region, the array of LELs further includes a plurality of first lateral region amber LELs, mounted on the first lateral region, and a plurality of second lateral region amber LELs, mounted on the second lateral region, and controller is further configured to:\n receive a left turn signal from the vehicle and, in response, activate the first lateral region amber LELs, \n receive a right turn signal from the vehicle and, in response, activate the second lateral region amber LELs.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.17073
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15647208', '13361617', '14144987', '10972050', '10302700']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6368313949738349
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.501285742016376
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6232768296780891
- Mean Citation Score: 146.45132800000005
- Max Citation Score: 147.1432
- Similarity Product: 93.79590363998412

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

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