PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15938474
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["340", "438000"]

Abstract:
Disclosed is a driving assistance method, comprising: periodically capturing an image in front of a vehicle; obtaining fitting points on each of edges of a road in the image; generating a virtual boundary on the basis of the obtained fitting points; and generating at least one virtual lane line between two virtual boundaries of the road. With the driving assistance method, the road without lane division can be divided into lanes to improve traffic safety. The present disclosure also provides a driving assistance device and a vehicle having the same.

Claim (Index 9):
The driving assistance device according to  claim 8 , wherein the driving assistance device further comprises a controller and an image dividing circuit, and wherein\n the image dividing circuit is configured to divide the image into a plurality of sub-images in a height direction of the image; the fitting point obtaining circuit is further configured to obtain a plurality of fitting points on each of edges of the road in each sub-image; and the controller is configured to send a start control signal to the image capture circuit after the vehicle passes the sub-image in the bottommost portion of the image to control the image capture circuit to re-capture an image.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 38.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.62295
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15172300', '10572957', '15527931', '12523494', '15013565']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.703040535534865
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4866327244082605
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6813997544222046
- Mean Citation Score: 194.291028
- Max Citation Score: 203.16432
- Similarity Product: 159.50233036740303

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

Dataset: test