PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16214959
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["701", "041000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus for assisting driving of a host vehicle provides stable control of the host vehicle by using road conditions including intersections, crosswalks and the like, forward lane markings, and a preceding vehicle. The apparatus includes an image sensor to capture images of an area in front of the host vehicle, and a controller configured to recognize a road section having no lane markings on a drive path, or recognize forward lane markings. The controller performs lateral control of the host vehicle selectively based on the forward lane markings and the recognized preceding vehicle according to whether the road section having no lane markings is recognized.

Claim (Index 26):
The apparatus for assisting driving of a host vehicle of  claim 24 , wherein the controller is configured to recognize the section of the road having no lane markings based on recognizing in images captured by the image sensor at least one of an intersection ahead of the host vehicle or a traffic light ahead of the host vehicle.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15652237', '15937944', '15673343', '15416214', '15608249']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4821789185800412
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5386130316001294
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.48782232988205
- Mean Citation Score: 266.581366
- Max Citation Score: 399.54773
- Similarity Product: 293.10265019550087

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

Dataset: test