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 9):
The apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein, when the host vehicle is driving in the section having no lane markings, the controller controls the host vehicle to follow the preceding vehicle and performs lateral control of the host vehicle based on the information acquired by recognizing the preceding 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): 0.4795217434209781
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5419930190060159
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4857688709794819
- Mean Citation Score: 266.581366
- Max Citation Score: 399.54773
- Similarity Product: 356.4131105122465

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