PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16157365
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["340", "438000"]

Abstract:
Until a lapse of a prescribed time from switching to a manual drive mode, a special judgment criterion for judging whether to generate an attention-arousing event is employed so that an attention-arousing event is generated more frequently than in an ordinary state and information is presented to a driver in a different expression form than in the ordinary situation. Since after occurrence of a handover the frequency of arousing attention of the driver is increased and attention of the driver is aroused in a different form, the driver realizes the switching to the manual drive mode soon and hence mode confusion can be avoided. Arousing attention of the driver is started earlier than in the ordinary situation by changing the judgment criterion for judging whether to generate an attention-arousing event.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for conveying information during an autonomous drive which presents information to a driver in a vehicle having, as running states, two or more states that are different from each other in the degree of involvement of the driver in drive control, wherein:\n the running states include a first state in which the drive control is performed automatically and a second state that is higher in the degree of involvement of the driver in drive control than the first state; and if an encounter with an event that may cause switching from the first state to the second state is predicted,\n explicit information is conveyed to the driver at a point in the vicinity of a scheduled switching point where switching from the first state to the second state will occur because of an encounter with the event; and \n the information is conveyed to the driver using an output device or devices that stimulate at least one of the five senses of the driver in such a manner that the stimulus quantity is varied stepwise or continuously from an initial quantity between a switching advance notice start point that is more distant from the scheduled switching point than the point in the vicinity of it is and the scheduled switching point.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.07692
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16157352', '15000391', '15642485', '11191015', '12214379']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6849839006969374
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4903905018529282
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6655245608125365
- Mean Citation Score: 166.869022
- Max Citation Score: 240.72874
- Similarity Product: 211.7534482226801

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