PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16029753
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["348", "115000"]

Abstract:
A method for displaying information to a driver of a vehicle includes disposing a camera at a vehicle and disposing a bimodal display at a display region at a windshield of the vehicle. Responsive at least in part to determination that gaze of the driver is not at the display area or gaze of the driver is at the display region and the driver is not focusing at the display region for the threshold period of time, the bimodal display operates in a first mode, where the bimodal display is transmissive of visible light therethrough. Responsive at least in part to determination that gaze of the driver is at the display region and the driver is focusing at the display region for the threshold period of time, the bimodal display operates in the second mode, where images derived from captured image data are displayed at the display region.

Claim (Index 15):
A method for displaying information to a driver of a vehicle, said method comprising:\n disposing a camera at a rear portion of a vehicle so as to have a field of view exterior and rearward of the equipped vehicle, wherein the camera is operable to capture image data; disposing a bimodal display at a display region at a windshield of the vehicle that is viewable by a driver of the vehicle when the driver is normally operating the vehicle, wherein the bimodal display is operable in a first mode and a second mode, and wherein, when the bimodal display operates in the first mode, the bimodal display at the display region is transmissive of visible light therethrough, and wherein, when the bimodal display operates in the second mode, images derived from image data captured by the camera are displayed at the display region; providing a driver monitor operable to determine a gaze of the driver of the equipped vehicle; providing a controller that controls the bimodal display responsive at least in part to the driver monitor; determining, via the driver monitor, when the gaze of the driver is at the display region and when the driver is focusing at the display region for a threshold period of time; with the equipped vehicle being driven by the driver, and responsive at least in part to determination by the driver monitor that (i) gaze of the driver is not at the display area or (ii) gaze of the driver is at the display region and the driver is not focusing at the display region for the threshold period of time, the bimodal display operates in the first mode; with the equipped vehicle being driven, and responsive at least in part to determination by the driver monitor that (i) gaze of the driver of the vehicle is at the display region and (ii) the driver is focusing at the display region for the threshold period of time, changing operation of the bimodal display, via the controller, from the first mode to the second mode; with the bimodal display operating in the second mode, displaying images at the display region that are derived from image data captured by the camera; wherein the controller is operable to change operation of the bimodal display from the first mode to the second mode when the vehicle is driven forwardly; and wherein the controller automatically changes operation of the bimodal display to the second mode when the equipped vehicle is executing a reversing maneuver.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 42.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.87037
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14623690', '14997830', '15484293', '13964140', '14272834']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7304441315328932
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4919207423144348
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7065917926110473
- Mean Citation Score: 199.57327400000003
- Max Citation Score: 266.7381
- Similarity Product: 207.4711739958644

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