PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16149225
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["701", "026000"]

Abstract:
A computer-readable medium stores instructions executable by one or more processors to implement a self-driving control architecture for controlling an autonomous vehicle. A perception component receives sensor data and generates signals descriptive of a current state of the environment. Based on those signals, a prediction component generates signals descriptive of one or more predicted future environment states. A motion planner generates decisions for maneuvering the vehicle toward a destination, at least by using the signals descriptive of the current and future environment states to set values of one or more independent variables in an objective equation. The objective equation includes terms corresponding to different driving objectives over a finite time horizon. Values of one or more dependent variables in the objective equation are determined by solving the equation subject to a set of constraints, and values of the dependent variables are used to generate decisions for maneuvering the vehicle.

Claim (Index 26):
An autonomous vehicle comprising:\n one or more operational subsystems configured to maneuver the autonomous vehicle, wherein the operational subsystems collectively control at least speed and direction of the autonomous vehicle; a sensor system including one or more sensor types and configured to generate sensor data; and a computing system configured to\n receive the sensor data from the sensor system, \n generate, based on the received sensor data, signals descriptive of a current state of an environment through which the autonomous vehicle is moving, \n generate, based on the signals descriptive of the current state of the environment, signals descriptive of one or more predicted future states of the environment, \n use the signals descriptive of the current state of the environment and the signals descriptive of the one or more predicted future states of the environment to set values of one or more independent variables in an objective equation, the objective equation including a plurality of terms that each correspond to a different one of a plurality of driving objectives over a finite time horizon, \n determine values of one or more dependent variables in the objective equation by solving the objective equation subject to a set of constraints, \n use the determined values of the dependent variables to generate decisions for maneuvering the autonomous vehicle toward a destination, and \n provide the decisions for maneuvering the autonomous vehicle toward the destination to the one or more operational subsystems of the autonomous vehicle to effectuate maneuvering of the autonomous vehicle in accordance with the generated decisions.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 65.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.95062
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16149219', '16149223', '16138427', '16138582', '15906529']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4875078542779705
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5868736715984351
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.497444436010017
- Mean Citation Score: 364.38208
- Max Citation Score: 519.7576
- Similarity Product: 452.1507302991391

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

Dataset: test