PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16054978
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2020-02
Patent Classification: ["null", "null"]

Abstract:
Systems and methods enable a failsafe for a trailer brake controller (TBC), by using a camera to detect braking of the towing vehicle. The methods can include using a vehicle-facing camera mounted to a trailer to detecting light emitted from rear brake lights at the towing vehicle. Then, the methods can determine whether the brakes of the towing vehicle are being engaged, based on the light detected by the vehicle-facing camera. Also, a TBC failure can be determined, and as a result, a trailer brake activation signal can be communicated at the trailer side, as a failsafe to activate the brakes of the trailer.

Claim (Index 1):
A method comprising:\n monitoring one or more rear brake lights of a vehicle with a vehicle-facing camera operatively attached to a rear section of the vehicle, and arranged such that the vehicle-facing camera captures activation of the one or more rear brake lights; detecting light emitted from the one or more rear brake lights of the vehicle by the vehicle-facing camera; determining whether the emitted light is indicative of a vehicle braking condition; and upon determining that the emitted light is indicative of the vehicle braking condition, providing a trailer brake activation signal from a controller to engage the brakes of the trailer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.01724
- Patent Class: nan
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14089381', '13964661', '12594462', '13933513', '15143290']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5927974606231966
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4845081348915783
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5819685280500347
- Mean Citation Score: 253.283978
- Max Citation Score: 267.3661
- Similarity Product: 225.00184384858608

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