PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16005600
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-12
Patent Classification: ["340", "435000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to systems, devices and methods for steering wheel haptic notification. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a detected hand position relative to a steering wheel of a vehicle and detecting at least one object relative to the vehicle. Based on the hand position, actuation of at least one haptic notification element of the steering wheel may be controlled to indicate position of the object. In certain embodiments, hand position may be detected by capacitive sensing of the steering wheel. In other embodiments, the vehicle may include an imaging device facing the steering wheel to determine hand position. Object location may be mapped to the steering wheel based on hand position. The actuators of the steering wheel may increase the steering wheel thickness or raise at least a portion of the actuator area to indicate the direction of a detected object.

Claim (Index 11):
A vehicle system comprising:\n a haptic steering wheel including a plurality of haptic notification elements, the plurality of haptic notification elements each including a plurality of actuation areas configured to be positioned to a raised height; and a control unit configured to\n receive a detected hand position relative to a steering wheel of the vehicle, \n detect at least one object relative to the vehicle, and \n control actuation of at least one haptic notification element of the steering wheel based on the hand position to indicate position of the at least one object relative to the vehicle, wherein actuation of the at least one haptic notification element includes partial activation of the haptic notification element to control size and position of an actuation area of the haptic element, wherein the size and position of the actuation area of the at least one haptic notification element indicates direction of the at least one object.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.34328
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14671612', '10942881', '15605053', '15455823', '12119505']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6690943706278264
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4833659928885612
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6505215328538999
- Mean Citation Score: 178.002052
- Max Citation Score: 185.00749
- Similarity Product: 138.99249505421935

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