PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16400799
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-05
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["382", "103000"]

Abstract:
A method for facilitating automated vehicle charging, which can include one or more of: detecting a charge port cover, determining a cover actuation point, opening the cover, locating a charging connector of the vehicle, locating electrical pins of the charging connector, connecting to the vehicle, and/or disconnecting from the vehicle. A system for facilitating automated vehicle charging, which can include one or more connectors, sensors, and/or actuators. The system is preferably configured to perform the method (e.g., in the presence of an electric vehicle).

Claim (Index 18):
The method of  claim 2 , wherein determining the edge map comprises:\n using a first edge detection threshold, detecting a first set of edges within the subset of the image; based on the first set of edges, determining a first edge pixel count; determining that the first edge pixel count is not within an expected edge pixel count range; based on the first edge pixel count, determining a second edge detection threshold different from the first edge detection threshold; and in response to determining that the first edge pixel count is not within the expected edge pixel count range, using the second edge detection threshold, detecting a second set of edges within the subset of the image, wherein the edge map comprises the second set of edges.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.94231
- Patent Class: 382.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15855116', '15855144', '15228459', '15640334', '14872830']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.3189684000741296
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4556001461429794
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3326315746810145
- Mean Citation Score: 102.843646
- Max Citation Score: 111.19917
- Similarity Product: 83.68415559060931

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