PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15747916
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["701", "070000"]

Abstract:
A travel control apparatus comprises a first detector configured to detect an obstacle around a subject vehicle traveling in a first lane and a second detector configured to detect a second lane adjacent to the first lane. The travel control apparatus sets a first range at a target position for lane change in the second lane. The first range has a size equal to or larger than a size which the subject vehicle occupies on a road surface. The travel control apparatus detects a range in the second lane as a second range. The range in the second lane is located at a side of the subject vehicle, and the obstacle is absent in the range in the second lane. The travel control apparatus permits the subject vehicle to change lanes when the second range includes the first range.

Claim (Index 3):
The travel control method according to  claim 1 , wherein the second step includes performing correction to reduce the first range or increase the second range when a road width of the third lane is a predetermined distance or more as compared with when the road width of the third lane is less than the predetermined distance.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.65455
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15747976', '15747885', '15748023', '15748070', '15456914']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5508831324956897
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5450886296796513
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5503036822140858
- Mean Citation Score: 366.104104
- Max Citation Score: 419.53796
- Similarity Product: 337.5841489050293

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

Dataset: test