PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16010569
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["340", "463000"]

Abstract:
Provided is a vehicle external notification device including a first notification unit that gives notice of information on an action schedule so as to be recognizable from the front of a host vehicle, a second notification unit that gives notice of the information so as to be recognizable from the side of the host vehicle, an action schedule unit that predicts a future action of a pedestrian, a parallel advance prediction unit that predicts whether or not the pedestrian advances in parallel with the host vehicle, and a notification control unit that causes the first notification unit to give notice of the information when it is predicted that the pedestrian does not advance in parallel with the host vehicle, and causes the second notification unit to give notice of the information when it is predicted that the pedestrian advances in parallel with the host vehicle.

Claim (Index 1):
A vehicle external notification device that gives notice of information on a future action schedule of a host vehicle during automatic driving so as to be recognizable from an outside of a vehicle, the vehicle external notification device comprising:\n a first notification unit configured to give notice of the information on the action schedule so as to be recognizable from a front of the host vehicle; a second notification unit configured to give notice of the information on the action schedule so as to be recognizable from a side of the host vehicle; a moving object detection unit configured to detect a moving object in a vicinity of the host vehicle; an action schedule unit configured to predict a future action of the moving object which is detected in front of the host vehicle by the moving object detection unit; a parallel advance prediction unit configured to predict whether or not the moving object advances in parallel with the host vehicle, on the basis of the action schedule and the future action of the moving object which is predicted by the action schedule unit; and a notification control unit configured to cause the first notification unit to give notice of the information on the action schedule when the parallel advance prediction unit predicts that the moving object does not advance in parallel with the host vehicle, and causes the second notification unit to give notice of the information on the action schedule at a timing when the moving object is positioned at a first distance from the host vehicle in a traveling direction of the host vehicle, when the parallel advance prediction unit predicts that the moving object advances in parallel with the host vehicle.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.90385
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16010618', '15866026', '14237504', '14687139', '13504373']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6686737170870876
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4879954833374939
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6506058937121282
- Mean Citation Score: 187.322888
- Max Citation Score: 235.28566
- Similarity Product: 201.4151847483289

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

Dataset: test