PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15988658
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["701", "025000"]

Abstract:
Systems and methods are provided for controlling an autonomous vehicle (AV). A map generator module processes sensor data to generate a world representation of a particular driving scenario (PDS). A scene understanding module (SUM) processes navigation route data, position information and a feature map to define an autonomous driving task (ADT), and decomposes the ADT into a sequence of sub-tasks. The SUM selects a particular combination of sensorimotor primitive modules (SPMs) to be enabled and executed for the PDS. Each one of the SPMs addresses a sub-task in the sequence. A primitive processor module executes the particular combination of the SPMs such that each generates a vehicle trajectory and speed (VTS) profile. A selected one of the VTS profiles is then processed to generate the control signals, which are then processed at a low-level controller to generate commands that control one or more of actuators of the AV

Claim (Index 15):
A controller for an autonomous vehicle, comprising:\n a vehicle controller module comprising:\n a scene understanding module that is configured to: process navigation route data that indicates a route of the autonomous vehicle, position information that indicates location of the autonomous vehicle and a feature map of a world representation to define an autonomous driving task; decompose the autonomous driving task into a sequence of sub-tasks that address a particular driving scenario; and select, from a plurality of sensorimotor primitive modules, a particular combination of sensorimotor primitive modules to be enabled and executed for the particular driving scenario, wherein each one of the particular combination of the sensorimotor primitive modules addresses a sub-task in the sequence; \n a selector module configured to retrieve the particular combination of the sensorimotor primitive modules from memory; and \n a primitive processor module configured to execute the particular combination of the sensorimotor primitive modules such that each generates a vehicle trajectory and speed profile; \n a vehicle control module that is configured to process a selected one of the vehicle trajectory and speed profiles to generate the control signals; and \n a low-level controller configured to process the control signals to generate commands that control one or more of actuators of the autonomous vehicle to execute one or more control actions to automatically control the autonomous vehicle to automate the autonomous driving task encountered in the particular driving scenario.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.92045
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15688429', '15609344', '10971725', '15806367', '14797709']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4471209420931224
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4720155873381544
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4496104066176256
- Mean Citation Score: 208.525198
- Max Citation Score: 222.46404
- Similarity Product: 185.8504071960068

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

Dataset: test