PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16079351
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["367", "093000"]

Abstract:
An occupant detection apparatus includes a wave motion sensor and an controller. The wave motion sensor provided to be upper than the seat in the vehicle, performing transmission of wave motion towards a predetermined range which includes a head part of the occupant at least, performing reception of the wave motion that is reflected. The controller calculates, as a result value, at least either a first value or a second value based on the transmission and the reception of the wave motion by the wave motion sensor; the first value is a receiving intensity and the second value is either a period of time or a distance. The controller determines either (i) that the seat is occupied by the occupant or (ii) that the seat is empty or occupied by a physical body other than the occupant, based on comparison of the result value with a threshold value.

Claim (Index 13):
The occupant detection apparatus according to  claim 12 , wherein:\n the wave motion scanning sensor comprises a front wave motion scanning sensor provided on a front side in a longitudinal direction in the vehicle, and a rear wave motion scanning sensor provided on a rear side in the longitudinal direction in the vehicle; the controller is configured to perform the occupant determination with respect to the determination target which are the right seat and the left seat located on the right side and the left side, respectively, of the central position on the front side in the vehicle, based on the scanning information produced from the wave motion by the front wave motion scanning sensor; and the controller is configured to perform the occupant determination with respect to the determination target which are the right seat and the left seat located on the right side and the left side, respectively, of the central position on the rear side in the vehicle, based on the scanning information produced from the wave motion by the rear wave motion scanning sensor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 48.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.34783
- Patent Class: 367.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['10227780', '10114533', '15189608', '14105597', '10365129']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6134149703377453
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4840693738621553
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6004804106901862
- Mean Citation Score: 174.09828000000005
- Max Citation Score: 178.51942
- Similarity Product: 118.37131220008136

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