PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16034332
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["348", "148000"]

Abstract:
An imaging control device includes: a first location estimator that estimates a future location of a vehicle using an advancing direction, velocity vector, or route data of the vehicle; a surface estimator that estimates a rate of change in the road surface height in the advancing direction or the road surface state at the future location, using surface information for estimating the road surface shape or state at the future location, detected by a sensor, or an image of the road surface at the future location, captured by an imaging device; a modifier that modifies a parameter of the imaging device according to the rate of change in the road surface height in the advancing direction or the road surface state; and a controller that causes the imaging device of the vehicle to perform imaging using the modified parameter, at a timing at which the vehicle passes the future location.

Claim (Index 9):
An imaging control method performed by an imaging control device that causes an imaging device arranged in a vehicle to capture a periphery of the vehicle, the imaging control method including:\n acquiring a velocity vector indicating an advancing direction of the vehicle and a speed of the vehicle traveling in the advancing direction or route data indicating a route to be traveled by the vehicle, and estimating a future travel location of the vehicle using the velocity vector or the route data acquired; acquiring road surface information for estimating a shape of a road surface or a state of the road surface including the estimated future travel location of the vehicle detected by a sensor arranged in the vehicle, or an image including the road surface at the estimated future travel location of the vehicle captured by the imaging device, and estimating a rate of change in a height of the road surface in the advancing direction or the state of the road surface at the estimated future travel location of the vehicle, using the road surface information or the image acquired; modifying a parameter of the imaging device which is at least one of a shutter speed of the imaging device and a sensitivity of the imaging device, according to the rate of change in the height of the road surface in the advancing direction or the state of the road surface estimated; and causing the imaging device to perform imaging using the modified parameter, at a timing at which the vehicle passes the estimated future travel location of the vehicle.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.7931
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15522410', '15915963', '12139952', '15510407', '15159290']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5920017198305646
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4730182043792958
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5801033682854377
- Mean Citation Score: 166.752286
- Max Citation Score: 180.63515
- Similarity Product: 148.089942829749

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

Dataset: test