PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15751418
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["340", "995280"]

Abstract:
A method and a system for precision vehicle positioning based on a digital road description database containing fourth data sets with object-based information about at least one of a road object, a road furniture object and a geographic object is disclosed. First data sets based on the fourth data sets are forwarded to a vehicle. The vehicle is collecting ambient data like images along its path, generating second data sets comprising at least location information and detailed object-based information. During driving and after generating second data sets, the vehicle tries to identify in the second data sets the same driving-relevant objects and/or object reference points and/or groups of driving-relevant objects and/or object reference points as are contained in the first data sets. Furthermore, the vehicle aligns the same driving-relevant objects and/or object reference points and/or groups of driving-relevant objects and/or object reference points between the second data sets and the first data sets, and derives a position value for its own position.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for precision vehicle positioning by using data received from a database and data collected by the vehicle while traveling along a path comprising the steps of\n a) the vehicle receiving, from the database and in an object-based 3D vector format, first data sets comprising driving-relevant object data for a current position of the vehicle, such driving-relevant object data comprising at least location information, an optional object reference point and detailed object-based information about at least one driving-relevant object like a road object, a road furniture object, a geographic object or a further object related to driving, b) the vehicle generating, while driving, a plurality of ambient data sets along at least sections of its path by at least one sensor of the vehicle, the ambient data sets relating to at least one of driving-relevant objects, road furniture and geographic objects, c) the vehicle performing object data processing by evaluating the at least one ambient data sets and generating, in an object-based 3D vector format, at least one second data set of driving-relevant object data based on the evaluation results, d) while driving and after generating second data sets, the vehicle trying to identify in the second data sets the same driving-relevant objects and/or object reference points and/or groups of driving-relevant objects and/or groups of object reference points that are comprised in the first data sets, and e) the vehicle aligning the same driving-relevant objects and/or object reference points and/or groups of driving-relevant objects and/or object reference points between the second data sets and the first data sets in object-based 3D vector format, for deriving a position value for its own position.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.29333
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15081756', '13651659', '13603618', '12518755', '13503399']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6791375678176474
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4930610268446637
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6605299137203491
- Mean Citation Score: 164.74737199999996
- Max Citation Score: 166.1568
- Similarity Product: 128.57670992431642

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

Dataset: test