PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15957886
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["356", "004010"]

Abstract:
Improved processing of sensor data (e.g., LiDAR data) can be used to distinguish between free space and objects/hazards. Autonomous vehicles can use such information for performing autonomous driving and/or parking operations. LiDAR data can include a plurality of range measurements (e.g., forming a 3D point cloud). Each of the range measurements can correspond to a respective LiDAR channel and azimuth angle. The processing of LiDAR data can include identifying one or more paths as candidate ground paths based on one or more path criteria. The processing of LiDAR data can also include identifying one or more of the plurality of range measurements as ground points or non-ground points based on the one or more paths identified as candidate ground paths and based on one or more point criteria.

Claim (Index 5):
The system of  claim 4 , wherein identifying the one or more paths as candidate ground paths comprises, for each respective path:\n computing differentials of the height projection data between adjacent LiDAR channels of the one or more LiDAR channels; and computing differentials of the ground projection data between the adjacent LiDAR channels of the one or more LiDAR channels.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.12121
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15609256', '15170470', '15855547', '14339515', '15860964']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7065033266997847
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4917852990477338
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6850315239345796
- Mean Citation Score: 158.95228
- Max Citation Score: 173.14975
- Similarity Product: 108.88378282766044

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