PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16227069
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["348", "118000"]

Abstract:
A vehicular trailer backup assist system is operable to steer a vehicle, with a trailer connected at the rear of the vehicle, during a reversing maneuver of the vehicle and trailer. The system electronically overlays a plurality of zones over displayed video images, with each individual zone of the overlayed plurality of zones being indicative of a respective individual region rearward of the vehicle and trailer. Responsive to a selected zone of travel for the trailer, the control controls steering of the vehicle to steer the vehicle to guide the trailer towards the respective individual region that is encompassed by the selected zone of travel during reversing of the vehicle and trailer. The driver of the vehicle manually adjusts steering of the vehicle to more accurately steer the vehicle towards a target location within the respective individual region that is encompassed by the selected zone of travel.

Claim (Index 12):
A vehicular trailer backup assist system, said vehicular trailer backup assist system comprising:\n a camera disposed at a vehicle and having a field of view exterior and at least rearward of the vehicle; wherein, with a trailer hitched at a trailer hitch of the vehicle, the field of view of said camera at least partially encompasses the trailer; a control comprising an image processor that processes image data captured by said camera; wherein image data captured by said camera is processed at said control; a display screen disposed in the vehicle and viewable by a driver of the vehicle when operating the vehicle, wherein, during a reversing maneuver of the vehicle and trailer, said display screen displays video images derived at least in part from image data captured by said camera; wherein, during the reversing maneuver of the vehicle and trailer, said vehicular trailer backup assist system electronically overlays a plurality of zones over the video images displayed at said display screen, and wherein each individual zone of the overlayed plurality of zones is indicative of a respective individual region rearward of the vehicle and trailer; wherein the overlayed plurality of zones comprises an overlay of a plurality of pie-shaped zones electronically overlayed over the video images displayed at said display screen so as to appear over the displayed video images and partially surrounding the trailer hitch of the vehicle; wherein said control, via processing at said control of image data captured by said camera, determines an orientation of the trailer relative to a longitudinal axis of the vehicle via determining a location of a target disposed at the trailer; a user input operable by a driver of the vehicle, wherein the driver operates the user input to select an individual zone of the overlayed plurality of zones as a zone of travel for the trailer during the reversing maneuver of the vehicle; wherein, responsive to the selected zone of travel for the trailer, said control controls, during the reversing maneuver of the vehicle and trailer, steering of the vehicle to steer the vehicle such that, during the reversing maneuver, the trailer travels towards the respective individual region displayed in the displayed video images that is encompassed by the overlay of the selected zone of travel; wherein said control controls steering of the vehicle to move the trailer relative to the overlayed plurality of zones in a manner that guides the trailer towards the respective individual region that is encompassed by the overlay of the selected zone of travel during reversing of the vehicle and trailer; and wherein, during the reversing maneuver of the vehicle and trailer, the driver of the vehicle manually adjusts steering of the vehicle to more accurately steer the vehicle towards a target location within the respective individual region that is encompassed by the overlay of the selected zone of travel.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.5
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14613441', '15238005', '15413464', '14803147', '16033416']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6840265972747371
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5502334447445616
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6706472820217195
- Mean Citation Score: 287.2250160000001
- Max Citation Score: 355.21954
- Similarity Product: 337.39237279740934

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