PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15745964
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["701", "023000"]

Abstract:
A user interface unit alternately designates an automatic switching mode, a manual-on mode, and a manual-off mode. A determining unit determines whether or not execution of driving assistance is permitted at a current time, based on a predetermined determination index related to whether or not execution of driving assistance is possible. A control unit executes a driving assistance mode when the execution of driving assistance is permitted and executes a manual driving mode when the execution of driving assistance is determined to not be permitted, under a condition that the automatic switching mode is designated. The control unit executes the driving assistance mode when a switch for designating the manual-on mode is operated, under a condition that the execution of driving assistance is permitted. The user interface unit does not receive input that designates the manual-on mode when the execution of driving assistance is determined to not be permitted.

Claim (Index 1):
A driving assistance control apparatus comprising:\n a control unit that alternately switches to an operation mode that is either of a driving assistance mode that is an operation mode in which driving assistance is performed, driving assistance being that in which a portion or all of driving operations related to traveling of an own vehicle is automatically performed, and a manual driving mode that is an operation mode in which traveling is performed based on a driving operation by a driver without driving assistance being performed; a user interface unit that is configured to alternately designate, by input from the driver, an automatic switching mode in which switching between the driving assistance mode and the manual driving mode is autonomously performed, a manual-on mode in which the driving assistance mode is designated to be turned on by input from the driver, and a manual-off mode in which the driving assistance mode is designated to be turned off by input from the driver; and a determining unit that determines whether or not execution of driving assistance is permitted at a current time, based on a predetermined determination index related to whether or not execution of driving assistance is possible, wherein the control unit executes the driving assistance mode when the execution of driving assistance is permitted by the determining unit and executes the manual driving mode when the execution of driving assistance is determined to not be permitted by the determining unit, under a condition that the automatic switching mode is designated by the user interface unit, the control unit executes the driving assistance mode when a switch for designating the manual-on mode is operated by the user interface unit, under a condition that the execution of driving assistance is permitted by the determining unit, and the user interface unit does not receive input that designates the manual-on mode when the execution of driving assistance is determined to not be permitted by the determining unit, and receives input that designates the automatic switching mode even when the execution of driving assistance is determined to not be permitted by the determining unit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.78947
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16060044', '15579023', '15722333', '15700738', '14833170']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4370504280262957
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4750575239013377
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4408511376137999
- Mean Citation Score: 201.108552
- Max Citation Score: 225.06886
- Similarity Product: 184.8534884141612

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

Dataset: test