PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15990995
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["701", "096000"]

Abstract:
In a driving assist apparatus for assisting a lane change from an own lane to a target lane, when a post-smoothing probability obtained by smoothing a time course change in “a lane presence possibility which increases with the possibility that a target is another vehicle traveling in the target lane (target lane other vehicle)” is greater than a threshold value, that target can be extracted as the target lane other vehicle. The post-smoothing probability requires some length of time to coincide with the lane presence possibility. Therefore, if after completion of a lane change, another lane change is immediately started in the same direction, there arises a possibility that the target lane other vehicle cannot be extracted properly. Therefore, in the case where after completion of a lane change, another lane change is started in the same direction, the lane change is not started until a re-change prohibition time elapses.

Claim (Index 2):
A driving assist apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein said control execution section is configured such that\n said control start conditions include a condition that a specific operation performed on a winker lever of said own vehicle has continued beyond a predetermined time, continuation of said specific operation resulting in execution of a turn signal process of blinking a direction indicator of said own vehicle, and said control execution section continues said turn signal process, even when said specific operation is not performed, during a period between a point when said lane change assist control has been started and a point when said specific condition is satisfied.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.28767
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15991078', '15869938', '15991058', '15991169', '15991136']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.429612243574983
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5370058441073599
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4403516036282207
- Mean Citation Score: 252.33621800000003
- Max Citation Score: 370.1948
- Similarity Product: 281.28913003964425

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

Dataset: test