PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15775181
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["340", "473000"]

Abstract:
There is provided an unmanned roadside signage vehicle comprising an autonomous, semiautonomous and/or remotely controllable roadside signage vehicle for various roadside signage, emergency response and maintenance applications. In accordance with one aspect, the unmanned roadside signage vehicle comprises drive motors operably coupled to driven wheels; steering coupled to the driven wheels; a controller for controlling the drive motors and steering; at least one electronic signage board for displaying roadside signage; and a data interface for receiving at least remote control instructions, the data interface operably coupled to the controller and wherein the controller is configured for controlling the drive motors and steering in accordance with the remote control instructions.

Claim (Index 1):
A system for autonomous beyond line-of-sight roadside maintenance machinery signage, the system comprising:\n a maintenance machine comprising:\n a maintenance machine location sensor configured for determining a location of the maintenance machine \n at least one autonomous unmanned vehicle comprising:\n drive motors operably coupled to driven wheels; \n steering coupled to the driven wheels; \n an unmanned vehicle location sensor configured for determining a location of the autonomous unmanned vehicle; \n a vision sensor subsystem for determining at least a lateral offset of the autonomous unmanned vehicle with respect to a road verge wherein, in use, the system is configured for: \n receiving unmanned vehicle formation configuration settings for controlling the formation deployment of the unmanned vehicle with respect to the maintenance machine, the formation configuration settings comprising at least one of:\n a route offset configuration setting representing a distance between the unmanned vehicle and the maintenance machine in use; and \n a road verge lateral offset configuration setting representing an offset distance of the unmanned vehicle from a road verge in use; \n receiving maintenance machine location data from the maintenance machine location sensor representing a location of the maintenance machine; receiving unmanned vehicle location data from the unmanned vehicle location sensor representing a location of the unmanned vehicle; controlling the motors of the unmanned vehicle in accordance with the route offset configuration setting, maintenance machine location data and unmanned vehicle location data; receiving realtime road verge lateral offset data from the vision sensor subsystem representing an realtime road verge lateral offset of the unmanned vehicle from the road verge; and controlling the steering in accordance with the realtime road verge lateral offset data and the road verge lateral offset configuration setting.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 33.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.125
- Patent Class: 340.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15543318', '14579909', '13427712', '15436220', '13867027']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.65629728401835
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4905333674784148
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6397208923643565
- Mean Citation Score: 159.156826
- Max Citation Score: 182.49947
- Similarity Product: 127.78544747279167

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

Dataset: test