PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15886028
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["701", "023000"]

Abstract:
Systems and methods are provided for detecting collisions between objects and an autonomous vehicle. The system includes a computer vision system configured to use acquired environmental data to determine a velocity vector of an object relative to the autonomous vehicle and a distance between the object and the autonomous vehicle. The autonomous driving system also includes a vehicle motion sensing module configured to use acquired vehicle motion data to determine an acceleration vector of the autonomous vehicle. The autonomous driving system also includes a collision detection module configured to register a collision between the object and the autonomous vehicle when the determined acceleration vector is detected having a direction that is substantially the same as a direction of the determined velocity vector of the object and when the determined distance between the object and the autonomous vehicle is less than a predetermined amount.

Claim (Index 9):
A computer-implemented method of detecting a collision between an autonomous vehicle and an object, the method comprising:\n using at least one environmental sensor, acquiring environmental data; determining, using a processor, a velocity vector of an object relative to the autonomous vehicle on the basis of the environmental data; determining, using a processor, a distance between the object and the autonomous vehicle on the basis of the sensed environmental data; acquiring, using at least one vehicle motion sensor, vehicle motion data and determining, using a processor, an acceleration vector of the autonomous vehicle on the basis of the vehicle motion data; comparing, using a processor, the distance between the object and the autonomous vehicle to a pre-determined distance; when the distance between the object and the autonomous vehicle is less than a predetermined distance, comparing the acceleration vector of the autonomous vehicle to the velocity vector of the object to determine if the acceleration vector of the autonomous vehicle can be correlated to the velocity vector of the object; and when the acceleration vector can be correlated to the velocity vector of the object, registering a collision between the object and the autonomous vehicle.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.57895
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15609344', '12360618', '14835873', '13598166', '13884683']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3866509300071135
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4733296541163697
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3953188024180392
- Mean Citation Score: 185.541762
- Max Citation Score: 198.91377
- Similarity Product: 162.5081221370244

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