PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15747885
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["701", "023000"]

Abstract:
A travel control apparatus comprises a first detector configured to detect an obstacle around a subject vehicle traveling in a first lane and a second detector configured to detect a second lane adjacent to the first lane. The travel control apparatus sets a first range at a target position for lane change in the second lane. The travel control apparatus detects a range in the second lane as a second range located at a side of the subject vehicle, and the obstacle is absent in the range in the second lane. The apparatus permits the subject vehicle to change lanes when the second range includes the first range. A method estimates whether another vehicle traveling in the second lane comes away from the subject vehicle and corrects to reduce the first range or increase the second range when the other vehicle is estimated to come away from the subject vehicle.

Claim (Index 2):
The travel control method according to  claim 1 , comprising:\n detecting a lighting state of winkers of the other vehicle as the travel state of the other vehicle; and estimating that the other vehicle comes close to the subject vehicle when the other vehicle lights a winker at the first lane side while estimating that the other vehicle comes away from the subject vehicle when the other vehicle lights a winker at an opposite side to the first lane.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.68966
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15747976', '15747916', '15748023', '15748070', '16331387']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4549250898003656
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5386934577194191
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.463301926592271
- Mean Citation Score: 347.795088
- Max Citation Score: 394.4681
- Similarity Product: 253.38299378902911

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 0
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 0

Dataset: test