PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15862178
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["296", "216010"]

Abstract:
A roof apparatus for an autonomous hardtop vehicle is described. The apparatus includes a vehicle roof having an opening for a sunroof and a roof cover that encloses sensor devices. The roof apparatus is mounted from the underside of the vehicle roof at the position for mounting a sunroof. The sensors include an array of cameras having a field of view of the full width of the vehicle in at least the front of the vehicle. The height of the roof cover above the vehicle roof is a minimal height to accommodate the height of the cameras.

Claim (Index 1):
A roof apparatus for an autonomous hardtop vehicle, the apparatus comprising:\n a vehicle roof having an opening; a roof assembly having a plurality of sensors mounted thereon, the roof assembly being mounted to a lower side of the vehicle roof at the interior of the vehicle; and a roof cover mounted to the top of the vehicle roof to enclose the plurality of sensor devices and the opening; wherein the plurality of sensors include a plurality of cameras having a field of view of the full width of the vehicle in at least the front of the vehicle, the height of the roof cover above the vehicle roof is a minimal height to accommodate the height of the cameras.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.17021
- Patent Class: 296.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12481228', '15202106', '14979028', '11959633', '13439667']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7887348857558172
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4448817442294994
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7543495716031854
- Mean Citation Score: 156.09036
- Max Citation Score: 161.5443
- Similarity Product: 116.45529257168768

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

Dataset: test