PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15956013
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["340", "576000"]

Abstract:
An automated driving assistance apparatus is an automated driving assistance apparatus for assisting automated driving of a passenger car, and includes a position detection unit and a notification control unit. The position detection unit detects a checkpoint that is before, in the advancing direction, a switching zone in which a switch is made from automated driving to manual driving. When the position detection unit detects that the vehicle has reached the checkpoint, the notification control unit controls a notification unit to notify the driver of preparation items required for manual driving when switching from automated driving to manual driving.

Claim (Index 1):
An automated driving assistance apparatus for assisting automated driving of a vehicle, comprising:\n a first position detection unit configured to detect a first position that is before, in an advancing direction, a switching zone in which a switch is made from the automated driving to manual driving; and a notification control unit configured to control a notification unit to notify a driver of a preparation item required for manual driving when switching from the automated driving to the manual driving, when the first position detection unit detects that the vehicle has reached the first position.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.12
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16060044', '15326413', '15421868', '15579023', '16068060']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.671731889652074
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4682148886207259
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6513801895489392
- Mean Citation Score: 175.915948
- Max Citation Score: 184.25902
- Similarity Product: 157.41582360157966

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