PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15769573
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["701", "001000"]

Abstract:
A road surface state determination apparatus of the present disclosure includes an acquisition interface configured to acquire an image representing a road surface imaged by a camera, and a controller configured to determine whether the road surface is wet or dry on the basis of a spatial change in luminance of pixels in a continuous region included in the image.

Claim (Index 8):
The road surface state determination apparatus of  claim 7 , wherein the temperature detector is a far infrared camera configured to image the road surface, and the controller is configured to determine whether a predetermined region on the road surface is frozen on the basis of a far infrared image captured by the far infrared camera.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.44186
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14957998', '15871712', '12008408', '11032893', '12674925']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4581485762571672
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4723432126232226
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4595680398937727
- Mean Citation Score: 177.86083399999995
- Max Citation Score: 182.72905
- Similarity Product: 137.30692008875607

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