PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15753812
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["701", "301000"]

Abstract:
Disclosed herein is a vehicle control device reducing a driving force generated by an engine of a vehicle to prevent the vehicle from colliding with a forward obstacle. The vehicle control device includes an ECU configured to control the driving force, an ultrasonic sensor configured to detect the forward obstacle in front of the vehicle, and a monocular camera configured to take an image of an area in front of the vehicle. The ECU determines the presence or absence of the forward obstacle in front of the vehicle based on the image taken with the monocular camera while the vehicle is travelling, and changes an upper limit of the driving force in accordance with a combination of whether or not the ultrasonic sensor has detected an object and the presence or absence of the forward obstacle determined based on the image taken with the monocular camera.

Claim (Index 5):
The vehicle control device of  claim 1 , further comprising\n a travel history memory configured to store presence or absence of a history of the vehicle's travel at speeds higher than or equal to a predetermined speed, wherein the driving force controller changes the upper limit of the driving force generated by the power source in accordance with a combination of whether or not the detector has detected an object, the presence or absence of the forward obstacle determined by the obstacle determining unit, and the presence or absence of the history of the vehicle's travel at the speeds higher than or equal to the predetermined speed, the history being stored in the travel history memory.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.53333
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15729811', '13384017', '15362178', '15362062', '12513934']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4232212522112392
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4710294699196288
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4280020739820782
- Mean Citation Score: 167.44865800000005
- Max Citation Score: 176.59616
- Similarity Product: 129.55050449012757

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

Dataset: test