PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16072381
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["701", "023000"]

Abstract:
Provided is an autonomous driving control apparatus and an autonomous driving control method capable of prompting a driver to switch a driving mode to a manual driving mode when a vehicle enters an area in which autonomous driving is difficult. The autonomous driving control apparatus includes a subject vehicle position detection portion configured to detect a running point of a subject vehicle on a map, a driving mode switching portion configured to, when the driver performs a driving operation during an autonomous driving mode of performing at least a part of a driving operation of the driver on behalf of the driver, switch the driving mode from the autonomous driving mode to the manual driving mode of causing the subject vehicle to run according to the driving operation, an autonomous driving difficulty determination portion configured to, based on information regarding an area lying ahead of the running point of the subject vehicle in a traveling direction, determine whether the autonomous driving is difficult in the area, and a driving mode switching prompt portion configured to prompt the driver to switch the driving mode to the manual driving mode if the autonomous driving is determined to be difficult in the area.

Claim (Index 15):
The autonomous driving control method according to  claim 14 , further comprising:\n switching the driving mode to the autonomous driving mode if both a first condition based on a running environment of the subject vehicle and a second condition based on a running state of the subject vehicle are satisfied when the driver stops the driving operation or turns on the autonomous driving selection button during the manual driving mode; and prompting the driver to switch the driving mode to the autonomous driving mode by a different method between when only the first condition is satisfied and when the first condition is not satisfied.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 38.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.07353
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14894184', '15595882', '15527728', '15882206', '15445245']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4476430098385406
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4760092583772908
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4504796346924156
- Mean Citation Score: 217.881352
- Max Citation Score: 219.92918
- Similarity Product: 174.68349911772492

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

Dataset: test