PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15957889
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["701", "028000"]

Abstract:
Improved processing of sensor data (e.g., LiDAR data) can be used to distinguish between free space and objects/hazards. Autonomous vehicles can use such information for performing autonomous driving and/or parking operations. LiDAR data can include a plurality of range measurements (e.g., forming a 3D point cloud). Each of the range measurements can correspond to a respective LiDAR channel and azimuth angle. The processing of LiDAR data can include identifying one or more of the plurality of range measurements as ground points or non-ground points based on one or more point criteria. The one or more point criteria can include a ground projection criterion and an angular variation criterion.

Claim (Index 1):
A system configured to be incorporated into a vehicle, the system comprising:\n one or more light detection and ranging (LiDAR) sensors comprising one or more LiDAR channels; and one or more processors coupled to the one or more LiDAR sensors, the processor configured to process ranging data from the one or more LiDAR sensors, the ranging data including a plurality of range measurements, wherein processing the ranging data comprises:\n identifying one or more of the plurality of range measurements as ground points or non-ground points based on one or more point criteria, wherein the one or more point criteria comprise a ground projection criterion and an angular variation criterion.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.81818
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15170470', '13627623', '15609256', '15855547', '15822679']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4225364429497328
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4619412096054076
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4264769196153003
- Mean Citation Score: 155.39253
- Max Citation Score: 162.02937
- Similarity Product: 123.64166153285264

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

Dataset: test