PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16122957
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["340", "435000"]

Abstract:
A vehicle control device includes: a recognizer ( 110, 120 ) that recognizes an object present around a host vehicle; and an apparatus operation controller ( 130 ) that determines whether the object is recognized in a predetermined target area by the recognizer and causes an onboard apparatus to perform a predetermined operation when it is determined that an object has been recognized by the recognizer. The predetermined target area is set around the host vehicle, and the apparatus operation controller determines whether the host vehicle enters or has entered a predetermined branching point and lowers a level of the predetermined operation performed by the onboard apparatus when it is determined that the host vehicle enters or has entered the predetermined branching point.

Claim (Index 9):
The vehicle control device according to  claim 1 , wherein\n the apparatus operation controller determines that the host vehicle enters or has entered the predetermined branching point when a predetermined mark has been detected in an image input from a camera that has captured an image of a side in front of the host vehicle, and then, a behavior of the host vehicle moving toward the predetermined mark is detected.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 10.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.26316
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16059123', '15843068', '15423795', '14789663', '15831524']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7112991789238229
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4908416335271561
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6892534243841562
- Mean Citation Score: 219.232046
- Max Citation Score: 241.25127
- Similarity Product: 209.32958097896216

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