PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16033416
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["348", "148000"]

Abstract:
A method for determining trailer angle includes determining angles of a trailer hitch relative to a data recording device via an angle measuring device while the trailer hitch pivots about a hitch ball of the device. While the trailer hitch pivots about the hitch ball of the device, trailer hitch information is determined responsive to processing of captured image data and responsive to determined angles of the trailer hitch. After determining trailer hitch information, data representative of the determined information is provided to an electronic device, which is disposed at a vehicle having a rear backup camera that has a field of view that encompasses a hitch ball of the vehicle and at least a portion of a hitch of a trailer hitched to the vehicle. Using the provided data, and responsive to processing of captured image data, an angle of the trailer relative to the vehicle is determined.

Claim (Index 18):
A method for determining trailer angle, said method comprising:\n providing a data recording device; wherein the data recording device has a camera disposed thereat; wherein the camera has a field of view that encompasses a hitch ball of the data recording device; wherein the data recording device comprises a processor operable to process image data captured by the camera; hitching a trailer hitch at the hitch ball of the data recording device and pivoting the trailer hitch about the hitch ball of the data recording device; capturing image data via the camera while the trailer hitch pivots about the hitch ball of the data recording device; determining angles of the trailer hitch relative to the data recording device via an angle measuring device while the trailer hitch pivots about the hitch ball of the data recording device; wherein the angle measuring device comprises an electromechanical device that is disposed at a hitch joint between the trailer hitch and the hitch ball of the data recording device; while the trailer hitch pivots about the hitch ball of the data recording device, determining trailer hitch information responsive to processing by the processor of image data captured by the camera and responsive to determined angles of the trailer hitch relative to the data recording device as determined by the angle measuring device; after determining trailer hitch information, providing data representative of the determined trailer hitch information to an electronic device; equipping a vehicle with the electronic device, wherein the equipped vehicle has a hitch ball at a rear portion of the equipped vehicle, and wherein the equipped vehicle is equipped with a rear backup camera; hitching a hitch of a trailer to the hitch ball at the rear portion of the equipped vehicle, wherein the trailer hitched to the hitch ball at the rear portion of the equipped vehicle comprises a targetless trailer; wherein the rear backup camera has a field of view that encompasses the hitch ball at the rear portion of the equipped vehicle and at least a portion of the hitch of the trailer hitched to the hitch ball at the rear portion of the equipped vehicle; capturing image data via the rear backup camera and processing, via a processor at the equipped vehicle, image data captured by the rear backup camera as the equipped vehicle and trailer move along a road; using the data provided to the electronic device, and responsive to processing by the processor of image data captured by the rear backup camera, determining an angle of the trailer relative to the equipped vehicle as the equipped vehicle and trailer move along the road; and wherein the rear backup camera comprises part of a multi-camera vision system of the equipped vehicle, and wherein image data captured by the rear backup camera and other exterior viewing cameras of the multi-camera vision system are processed for display of video images surrounding the equipped vehicle during a parking maneuver of the equipped vehicle.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.82143
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15268941', '15928128', '15596350', '15793133', '14613441']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.667754193064365
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4842723668886702
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6494060104467956
- Mean Citation Score: 237.05942
- Max Citation Score: 243.99568
- Similarity Product: 199.9911595420456

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