PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15871988
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["340", "932200"]

Abstract:
An apparatus and method for assisting a vehicle into a desired position within a parking space. The device uses non-uniform light strength light line or other pattern projection to generate highlighted projections onto a target at a vehicle dashboard. The user may form a strong projection by focusing multi laser projections to overlap each other at the target. The driver knows the location of the vehicle by memorizing the patterns along the projections relative to the locations in the parking space. The driver maneuvers the vehicle direction and speed in order to make the projections onto the target, to avoid hitting the garage door frame, and to park on a desired position inside the parking space. The devices can be used for both guiding the vehicle into the parking space at a predetermined path to avoid nearby objects and stopping the vehicle at the desired place and direction.

Claim (Index 16):
A method for guiding a vehicle to a desired position in a confined space which method comprises of:\n a target on said vehicle; projecting one or a plurality of linear beams or other projection shape of light that have unique light patterns along the projections or short light projections with the ends of the projection as the recognized marks in the vicinity of predetermined locations along a predetermined vehicle parking pass; moving said vehicle towards said parking location into a field of view of the light beams; maintaining said beams on or nearby said target on said vehicle; the driver of said vehicle knows said vehicle location relative to the objectives in said parking space, and said parking position by recognizing the marks or end of the line on said light projections; and adjusting said vehicle direction to keep said light projection on said target by carefully adjusting said vehicle speed as needed when said vehicle is passing a nearby object or when parking said vehicle when the mark of said parking location reaches said target on the vehicle.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.92593
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10320431', '15216987', '11510377', '15328041', '10454058']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6611888478015471
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4996981032932436
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6450397733507167
- Mean Citation Score: 189.988762
- Max Citation Score: 210.90936
- Similarity Product: 159.81154631000518

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