PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16072020
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["340", "425500"]

Abstract:
It is an object of the present invention to provide a notification control apparatus and a notification control method capable of previously notifying a passenger of a change of a motion of a vehicle travelling automatically. A notification control apparatus according to the present invention includes: a processor to execute a program; and a memory to store the program which, when executed by the processor, performs processes of, acquiring travel condition information which is information indicating a future travel condition of the vehicle, generating a sound image pattern based on the travel condition information, and generating a notification sound in accordance with the sound image pattern and, controlling the output of the notification sound, wherein the travel condition information includes information of a future course of the vehicle, and when the course is changed, the sound image pattern in accordance with the course being changed is generated.

Claim (Index 7):
A notification control apparatus performing a control of transmitting notification of a motion of a vehicle traveling automatically to an interior of the vehicle, comprising:\n a processor to execute a program; and a memory to store the program which, when executed by the processor, performs processes of, acquiring travel condition information which is information indicating a future travel condition of the vehicle, generating an original sound from a predetermined speech waveform, generating a sound image pattern in which a sound image localization position changes along with an elapse of time based on the travel condition information which has been acquired, generating a notification sound in which the sound image localization position of the original sound changes along with an elapse of time in accordance with the sound image pattern which has been generated and, controlling the output of the notification sound, generating the sound image pattern based on an automatic driving level indicating a degree of the automatic driving, and generating the original sound based on the automatic driving level.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.46154
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14357225', '13001827', '11016883', '13576592', '14370684']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.632301736896812
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4830925975679099
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6173808229639218
- Mean Citation Score: 177.36113600000004
- Max Citation Score: 182.92795
- Similarity Product: 145.54054032208325

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

Dataset: test