PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16164570
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["049", "031000"]

Abstract:
A gesture access and object impact avoidance system for a motor vehicle, includes a radar signal assembly configured to be mounted to the motor vehicle and to transmit radar signals and detect reflected radar signals, and a processor to operate in (i) a gesture access mode, when the motor vehicle is not moving or is disabled from moving, by controlling an access closure actuator to lock, unlock, open or close an access closure of the motor vehicle if an object is within a sensing region of the radar signal assembly and exhibits a predefined gesture, and (ii) an object impact avoidance mode, when the motor vehicle is moving or enabled to move, by activating a warning device or controlling an impact avoidance device actuator if an object is within a predefined distance of the radar signal assembly.

Claim (Index 20):
A method of processing reflected radar signals produced by at least one radar signal receiver mounted to a motor vehicle, the reflected radar signals including at least one radar signal transmitted by at least one radar signal transmitter, also mounted to the motor vehicle, and reflected by an object toward and detected by the at least one radar signal receiver, the method comprising:\n monitoring, with at least one processor, at least one vehicle operating parameter signal produced by at least one vehicle operating parameter sensor or switch carried by the motor vehicle, if the monitored at least one vehicle operating parameter signal satisfies a first vehicle operating condition, operating in a gesture access mode by processing the reflected radar signals with the at least one processor to determine whether an object is within a sensing region of the at least one radar signal receiver and, if so, controlling at least one actuator associated with an access closure of the motor vehicle with the at least one processor to lock, unlock, open or close the access closure if the object within the sensing region exhibits a predefined gesture, and if the at least one vehicle operating parameter sensor signal satisfies a second vehicle operating condition different from the first vehicle operating condition, operating in an object impact avoidance mode by processing the reflected radar signals with the at least one processor to determine whether an object is within a predefined distance of the at least one radar signal receiver and, if so, at least one of activating at least one warning device with the at least one processor and controlling at least one actuator associated with at least one impact avoidance device of the motor vehicle with the at least one processor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.35938
- Patent Class: 49.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15589224', '16038330', '15115642', '15295059', '14753924']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7566129021347102
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4808808116979972
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7290396930910389
- Mean Citation Score: 148.64902999999995
- Max Citation Score: 156.3934
- Similarity Product: 106.87671017478704

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