PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16071501
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["701", "048000"]

Abstract:
A host vehicle is provided with external environment recognition sensors that acquire forward information to determine that a pedestrian is present in a forward position of the host vehicle using the external environment recognition sensors. In this pedestrian determination method, a front camera and a millimeter wave radar are provided as the external environment recognition sensors. When a pedestrian candidate is detected in a forward position of the host vehicle based on an image signal from the front camera, a matching area is set with the position of the detected pedestrian candidate as the center point. When the position of the object that is closest to the pedestrian candidate from among the plurality of objects detected by reflected waves from the millimeter wave radar is within the matching area thereby establishing a match, the pedestrian candidate is determined to be a pedestrian.

Claim (Index 7):
A pedestrian determination device comprising:\n external environment recognition sensors that acquire forward information for a host vehicle; and a matching determination processing unit that determines that a pedestrian is present in a forward position of the host vehicle using the external environment recognition sensors; the external environment recognition sensors including a camera and a radar; and the matching determination processing unit carries out a process\n to set a matching area based on a position of a pedestrian candidate that is detected as the center point, upon detecting the pedestrian candidate in the forward position of the host vehicle based on an image signal from the camera, and \n to determine the pedestrian candidate to be a pedestrian, when the position of an object that is closest to the pedestrian candidate from among a plurality of objects detected by reflected waves from the radar is within the matching area and a match is established, and \n to expand the matching area when the position of the pedestrian candidate and the position of the object are in a same direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.25758
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16071505', '15501015', '15327914', '15560267', '16061207']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4501154865192342
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5566654694283868
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4607704848101495
- Mean Citation Score: 261.040428
- Max Citation Score: 443.56018
- Similarity Product: 383.95644769058816

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