PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16045858
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["701", "023000"]

Abstract:
An information processing apparatus is configured to distribute, to a vehicle, a map showing a road shape of a road on which the vehicle runs makes, for each of a plurality of areas and determine whether it is necessary to update the map of that area. The determination is based on at least either an amount of change from the road shape shown by the map to the road shape at a present time in each of the plurality of areas or the number of occurrences of a predetermined action of a vehicle having run through in each of the plurality of areas.

Claim (Index 18):
A map updating method comprising updating a map in a map updating system including an information processing apparatus for distributing, to one or more vehicles, the map showing a road on which the one or more vehicles run and a road shape that is a shape of an area around the road and the one or more vehicles,\n wherein the information processing apparatus performs operations including: determining, for each of the plurality of areas, whether it is necessary to update the map of that area, the determining being based on at least either an amount of change from the road shape shown by the map to the road shape of a present time or the number of occurrences of a predetermined action of a vehicle having run through that area, the map being stored in a memory of the information processing apparatus; selecting, from among one or more vehicles that are running or planning to run in an area where it has been determined that the map needs to be updated, a detection vehicle that detects the road shape with a high degree of accuracy; and transmitting, via a communication network to the detecting vehicle thus selected, a detection request that causes the detecting vehicle to detect the road shape of the area, and a vehicle selected as the detecting vehicle from among the one or more vehicles performs operations including: receiving the detection request via the communication network from an external information apparatus; determining whether a running mode of the vehicle is switched from a normal mode in which to perform normal running to a detection mode in which to, in order to update the map, perform running that detects the road shape of a road on which the vehicle is running; in a case where it has been determined that switching to the detection mode is made, switching the running mode to the detection mode and controlling the vehicle to run in the detection mode; and in a case where it has been determined that switching to the detection mode is not made, keeping the running mode in the detection mode and controlling the vehicle to run in the normal mode.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.89474
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12440567', '10567870', '11680971', '14767502', '14579095']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4167223040608275
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4630008791065271
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4213501615653975
- Mean Citation Score: 140.178392
- Max Citation Score: 145.6322
- Similarity Product: 106.11552371013164

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 0

Dataset: test