PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15882896
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["382", "103000"]

Abstract:
In an apparatus for controlling a vehicle equipped with a radar device and an imaging device to detect an object around the vehicle. In the apparatus, an identity determiner is configured to, based on a first predicted time to collision with a first target and a second predicted time to collision with a second target, perform an identity determination as to whether or not the first target and the second target correspond to the same object. A scene determiner is configured to determine whether or not one of at least one specific scene where large calculation errors in the second predicted time may be generated is matched depending on the calculation method corresponding to the second predicted time to collision. A determination aspect setter is configured to, based on the calculation method and a result of determination by the scene determiner, set an aspect of the identity determination.

Claim (Index 1):
An apparatus for controlling an own vehicle that is a vehicle equipped with a radar device and an imaging device as object detection sensors configured to detect an object around the own vehicle, the apparatus comprising: a first acquirer configured to acquire a first predicted time to collision that is an estimated time until a collision of the own vehicle with a target detected by the radar device, the target detected by the radar device being referred to as a first target;\n a second acquirer configured to acquire a second predicted time to collision that is an estimated time until a collision of the own vehicle with a target in a captured image detected by the imaging device, the target detected by the imaging device being referred to as a second target, the second predicted time being calculated using one of a plurality of calculation methods; an identity determiner configured to, based on the first predicted time to collision and the second predicted time to collision, perform an identity determination as to whether or not the first target and the second target correspond to the same object; a scene determiner configured to, upon acquiring the second predicted time to collision from the second acquirer, determine whether or not one of at least one specific scene is matched depending on the calculation method corresponding to the second predicted time to collision, the at least one specific scene being a scene where large calculation errors in the second predicted time to collision corresponding to the calculation method may be generated; and a determination aspect setter configured to, based on the calculation method and a result of determination by the scene determiner, set an aspect of the identity determination.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.41538
- Patent Class: 382.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15574426', '15577274', '15562369', '15562172', '15839604']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.331540568473069
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4697940283197868
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3453659144577408
- Mean Citation Score: 194.131792
- Max Citation Score: 207.29236
- Similarity Product: 175.67883493272305

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