PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15957509
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["701", "049000"]

Abstract:
A vehicle includes a liftgate system for mitigating a liftgate from contacting an object within a closing path of the liftgate. The liftgate system includes the liftgate, a camera, and a processor. The liftgate includes a surface facing an interior of the vehicle when the liftgate is closed. The camera is disposed on the surface. The processor detects, via the camera, an object within a closing path of the liftgate. The processors estimate a trajectory of the object when the object is in motion. The processor controls the liftgate based on the estimated trajectory and a speed setting at which the liftgate closes.

Claim (Index 15):
A method of operating a vehicle, comprising:\n initiating, via a processor, a liftgate closing operation; detecting, via a camera, an object within a closing path of a liftgate; responsive to the object being in motion, estimating, via the processor, a trajectory of the object; and controlling, via the processor, the liftgate based on the estimated trajectory and a speed setting at which the liftgate closes, causing, via the processor, the liftgate to close at a first speed when the camera does not detect any object within the closing path of the liftgate, stopping, via the processor, the liftgate closing operation when the camera detects the object within the closing path of the liftgate, and when the processor receives instructions from a user interface to resume the liftgate closing operation, resuming, via the processor, the liftgate closing operation such that the liftgate moves at a second speed slower than the first speed.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.47826
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15664299', '14753924', '14159772', '15295059', '11383234']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4269842647227364
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4666449787415057
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4309503361246133
- Mean Citation Score: 175.8728
- Max Citation Score: 194.97124
- Similarity Product: 156.97180318035126

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