PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15944964
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["348", "116000"]

Abstract:
This disclosure relates to an apparatus and a method for road vehicle driver assistance through which it is possible to determine critical obstacles that are within a predetermined proximity of a calculated maneuver corridor of the vehicle, representative of the full vehicle extension, and determination of corresponding critical points of the vehicle calculated to come into the predetermined proximity of the identified obstacles when traversing the calculated maneuver corridor. Separate from the bird's eye image of the vehicle and its surrounding is displayed at least one image acquired from a determined best camera angle and position to navigate critical obstacles. This provides a driver of an associated road vehicle with a clear overview of a current situation and provides immediate access to detailed views of one or more critical areas to navigate.

Claim (Index 13):
A method for road vehicle driver assistance, the method comprising:\n acquiring at least one of current vehicle control commands relating to steering angle, acceleration, deceleration, velocity and shift position; acquiring true-images at a circumference of the vehicle from a plurality of on-board cameras disposed on a front, a rear and sides of the vehicle; synthesizing a plurality of the true-images acquired by the plurality of on-board cameras to thereby create a bird's eye image looking down on the vehicle from above the vehicle; displaying the created bird's eye image; identifying obstacles around the vehicle; calculating a maneuver corridor of the vehicle based on at least one of the acquired at least one of current vehicle control commands relating to steering angle, acceleration, deceleration, velocity and shift position, to represent space that the vehicle will traverse when travelling in accordance with the acquired at least one of current vehicle control commands; determining, from the identified obstacles, critical obstacles that are within a predetermined proximity of the calculated maneuver corridor as well as corresponding critical points of the vehicle calculated to come into the predetermined proximity of the identified obstacles when traversing the calculated maneuver corridor; synthesizing borders of the calculated maneuver corridor, representations of the critical obstacles, and marks for critical points of the vehicle; displaying, overlaying the bird's eye image, the synthesized borders of the calculated maneuver corridor, the representations of the critical obstacles, and the marks for critical points of the vehicle; determining, from the true-images acquired at the circumference of the vehicle, best camera angles and positions to navigate the critical points of the vehicle past the critical obstacles; and displaying, separate from the bird's eye image, at least one image acquired from a determined best camera angle and position to navigate a critical obstacle.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.76923
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15283557', '13818353', '12737439', '13880490', '14857979']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6343805372027211
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4730729040609452
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6182497738885435
- Mean Citation Score: 219.150734
- Max Citation Score: 221.9748
- Similarity Product: 191.087133679676

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