PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15969071
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["382", "104000"]

Abstract:
A vehicle hitch detection system is provided. The vehicle hitch detection system includes a camera arranged to capture images of a vehicle hitch and a controller processing the images to detect a powered hitch ornament connected to the hitch based on the processed images when an electrical hitch connection is detected. The controller may further control a driver assistance system based on the detected hitch ornament to enable or disable the system.

Claim (Index 13):
A method of controlling a trailer backup assist system, comprising:\n detecting an electrical hitch connector connected with the vehicle; capturing images of the hitch with a camera; processing the images with a processor to detect a powered hitch ornament connected to the hitch based on an illuminated hitch ornament detected when the electrical hitch connector is detected connected to the vehicle; and controlling with a controller the trailer backup assist system to enable the trailer backup assist system when the hitch ornament is not detected and disable the trailer backup assist system when the hitch ornament is detected.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.82927
- Patent Class: 382.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15186850', '14068387', '15095202', '14198753', '14924851']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3479942193794924
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5400610920743053
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3672009066489737
- Mean Citation Score: 237.264998
- Max Citation Score: 391.99823
- Similarity Product: 348.9216909154665

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

Dataset: test