PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16176607
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["701", "023000"]

Abstract:
A method for controlling a first sensor configured to sense an environment through which a vehicle is moving includes receiving sensor data generated by one or more sensors of the vehicle as the vehicle moves through the environment, identifying, by one or more processors and based on at least a portion of the received sensor data, one or more road portions along which the vehicle is expected to travel, and determining, by one or more processors, a configuration of the identified road portions, at least in part by determining a slope of at least one of the identified road portions. The method also includes determining, by one or more processors analyzing at least the determined configuration, an elevation of a field of regard of the first sensor that satisfies one or more visibility criteria, and causing the first sensor to be adjusted in accordance with the determined elevation.

Claim (Index 19):
The vehicle of  claim 16 , wherein the computing system is further configured to:\n determine that, at the determined elevation, a sensing distance of the first sensor is less than a threshold distance; and in response to determining that the sensing distance is less than the threshold distance, cause a speed of the vehicle to decrease.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 42.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.35294
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['16176624', '16176473', '16176529', '16176649', '16149223']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.464163231222404
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5113243804277664
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4688793461429402
- Mean Citation Score: 266.14522200000005
- Max Citation Score: 291.06665
- Similarity Product: 199.67435588307976

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