PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16067625
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["701", "301000"]

Abstract:
A vehicle control device includes: a recognition unit configured to recognize a position of a neighboring vehicle traveling around a host vehicle; a target position setting unit configured to set a target position for lane change to a lane of a lane change destination to which the host vehicle changes a lane; a lane changeability determining unit configured to determine that it is possible to change lane when one or both of a first condition in which the neighboring vehicle is not present in a forbidden area which is set on a lateral side of the host vehicle and on the lane of the lane change destination and a second condition in which a collision margin time between the host vehicle and the neighboring vehicle present before or after the target position is larger than a threshold are satisfied; and a control unit configured to cause the host vehicle to change lane to the lane of the lane change destination when the lane changeability determining unit determines that it is possible to change the lane.

Claim (Index 8):
The vehicle control device according to  claim 1 , wherein\n the lane changeability determining unit changes the threshold on the basis of a traveling state of the host vehicle and an environment of a road on which the host vehicle is traveling.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.72727
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15718190', '15095309', '11125389', '15587414', '14687139']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4853949222942066
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4874200497185635
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4855974350366423
- Mean Citation Score: 235.59224
- Max Citation Score: 240.75545
- Similarity Product: 185.9051994774729

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

Dataset: test