PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16157226
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["340", "903000"]

Abstract:
A vehicular lane change system includes a forward-viewing camera that has a field of view through the vehicle windshield that encompasses a road being traveled along by the vehicle. Responsive at least in part to processing of image data captured by the camera, a control determines the lane traveled by the vehicle. The control is operable to detect a lane change maneuver of the vehicle to a lane immediately adjacent to the lane traveled by the vehicle. Detection of the lane change maneuver is based at least in part on vehicle steering data and/or image processing of captured image data. Responsive to the control detecting the lane change maneuver of the vehicle when the driver of the vehicle has neglected to turn on an appropriate turn signal indicator of the vehicle, the control automatically turns on the turn signal indicator at the appropriate side of the vehicle.

Claim (Index 1):
A vehicular lane change system, said vehicular lane change system comprising:\n a forward-viewing camera disposed at an in-cabin side of a windshield of a vehicle equipped with said vehicular lane change system, said forward-viewing camera viewing through the windshield to capture image data at least forward of the equipped vehicle; said forward-viewing camera having a field of view that encompasses a road being traveled along by the equipped vehicle; a control disposed in the equipped vehicle and comprising a data processor; said data processor comprising an image processor; wherein image data captured by said forward-viewing camera is provided to said control and is processed by said image processor; wherein said image processor processes data at a processing speed of at least 30 MIPS; wherein, responsive to image processing by said image processor of image data captured by said forward-viewing camera, lane markers on the road being traveled along by the equipped vehicle are detected; wherein, responsive at least in part to image processing by said image processor of image data captured by said forward-viewing camera, said control determines a lane being traveled by the equipped vehicle; wherein said control receives vehicle data relating to the equipped vehicle via a vehicle bus of the equipped vehicle; wherein said vehicle data comprises vehicle steering data; wherein said control is operable to detect a lane change maneuver of the equipped vehicle to a lane immediately adjacent to the lane being traveled by the equipped vehicle; wherein detection of the lane change maneuver by said control is based at least in part on at least one selected from the group consisting of (i) vehicle steering data received at said control via said vehicle bus and (ii) image processing by said image processor of image data captured by said forward-viewing camera; wherein detection of the lane change maneuver by said control is irrespective of activation by a driver of the equipped vehicle of a turn signal indicator of the equipped vehicle; and wherein, responsive to said control detecting the lane change maneuver of the equipped vehicle to the lane immediately adjacent to the lane being traveled by the equipped vehicle when the driver of the equipped vehicle has neglected to turn on an appropriate turn signal indicator of the equipped vehicle, said control automatically turns on the turn signal indicator at the appropriate side of the equipped vehicle.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 77.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.48387
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15289341', '13919483', '12483996', '14997831', '12058155']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7164828094884961
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5393834320884563
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6987728717484921
- Mean Citation Score: 327.8687720000001
- Max Citation Score: 358.4497
- Similarity Product: 307.7528697248578

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