PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16261628
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["701", "041000"]

Abstract:
In an automated driving control device ( 100 ), a vehicle control device includes a recognition unit ( 130 ) that is configured to recognize a peripheral situation of a vehicle and a driving control unit ( 120, 160 ) that is configured to automatically perform control of acceleration/deceleration and steering of the vehicle on the basis of the peripheral situation recognized by the recognition unit, in which the recognition unit determines whether or not a traffic participant present in an advancement direction of the vehicle is aware of the presence of the vehicle, and, in a case in which the traffic participant advancing in the same direction as that of the vehicle is recognized in the advancement direction of the vehicle by the recognition unit, and it is determined by the recognition unit that the traffic participant is not aware of the presence of the vehicle, the driving control unit causes the vehicle to run behind the traffic participant and, in a case in which a period of the running behind the traffic participant becomes equal to or longer than a reference, causes the vehicle to run in a predetermined form.

Claim (Index 9):
A vehicle control method using a vehicle control device, the vehicle control method comprising:\n recognizing a peripheral situation of a vehicle; automatically controlling acceleration/deceleration and steering of the vehicle on the basis of the recognized peripheral situation; determining whether or not a traffic participant present in an advancement direction of the vehicle is aware of the presence of the vehicle; and automatically controlling steering of the vehicle such that the vehicle is caused to run behind a traffic participant in a case in which the traffic participant advancing in the same direction as that of the vehicle is recognized in the advancement direction of the vehicle, and it is determined that the traffic participant is not aware of the presence of the vehicle, and the vehicle is caused to run in a predetermined form in a case in which a period of running behind the traffic participant becomes equal to or longer than a reference.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.97059
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16090846', '13076897', '14192474', '15866026', '13863563']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.424977838959042
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4757971938452769
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4300597744476656
- Mean Citation Score: 177.548604
- Max Citation Score: 182.43687
- Similarity Product: 129.92491393875358

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

Dataset: test