PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15911952
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["340", "901000"]

Abstract:
A B-pillar vehicle warning system includes a plurality of regions that can be illuminated to provide green, yellow, and red light. The warning system may be configured to utilize inputs from an autonomous driving sensing system to determine a location of a pedestrian, cyclist, vehicle, etc. relative to the vehicle. The system may be configured to illuminate specific lights in a predefined sequence based on a position of a pedestrian to alert/warn a pedestrian approaching the vehicle.

Claim (Index 19):
A pedestrian warning system for motor vehicles comprising:\n a sensor system that is capable of detecting a location of pedestrians adjacent opposite sides of a vehicle; a B-pillar warning light system including a vertical row of light sources arranged to be positioned on a B-pillar of a motor vehicle, wherein the light sources can be actuated to provide green, yellow, and red illuminated areas on an outer side of the warning system; a controller configured to actuate only selected ones of the light sources based, at least in part, on a location of a pedestrian relative to a side of a vehicle according to predefined criteria.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.68627
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14995447', '15185531', '15899189', '14610842', '10642435']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.666377614999604
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4713030612968026
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6468701596293239
- Mean Citation Score: 159.888758
- Max Citation Score: 165.67712
- Similarity Product: 130.67473630058288

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