PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15939702
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["356", "601000"]

Abstract:
A method and apparatus for vehicle recognition are provided, which are combined with a radar apparatus scanning a detection area with electromagnetic waves. Data derived from reflection waves are outputted from the radar apparatus to the vehicle recognizing apparatus to detect a vehicle in the detection area. The vehicle recognizing apparatus is provided with a processor performing a process for the recognition on calculation of the received data for the recognition of vehicles. In the process, weak-refection directions providing weak-reflection points on a vehicle are determined which are defined as radiation directions of the electromagnetic waves in which the reflection waves have intensities lower than a threshold. A common reflection point group defined as a group of reflection points belonging to the same vehicle is supplemented with the weak-reflection points for completing the common reflection point group.

Claim (Index 4):
The apparatus of  claim 1 , wherein the point group generating unit is configured to i) determine whether or not the radiation directions of the electromagnetic waves radiated to the common reflection point group are continuous to only one side of the continuous reflection directions in the scan direction, ii) supplement, with the weak-reflection points, at intersections at which a first linear line and a second linear line, when it is determined that the radiation directions of the radiated electromagnetic waves are continuous to only the one side of the continuous reflection directions,\n the first linear line being perpendicular to a second approximation linear line and passing, of the refection points, reflection points decided by a radiation direction located next to the continuous reflection directions in the scan direction, the second approximation linear line approximating, on a linear line, the reflection points determined by the respective radiation directions of the electromagnetic waves to the common reflection point group, the first linear line, the second linear line indicating the respective continuous reflection directions.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.25
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12187903', '11273340', '11543864', '15647726', '10725269']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6953489241286451
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4899351124054077
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6748075429563214
- Mean Citation Score: 211.681334
- Max Citation Score: 218.66803
- Similarity Product: 170.24825001781224

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

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