PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15944964
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["348", "116000"]

Abstract:
This disclosure relates to an apparatus and a method for road vehicle driver assistance through which it is possible to determine critical obstacles that are within a predetermined proximity of a calculated maneuver corridor of the vehicle, representative of the full vehicle extension, and determination of corresponding critical points of the vehicle calculated to come into the predetermined proximity of the identified obstacles when traversing the calculated maneuver corridor. Separate from the bird's eye image of the vehicle and its surrounding is displayed at least one image acquired from a determined best camera angle and position to navigate critical obstacles. This provides a driver of an associated road vehicle with a clear overview of a current situation and provides immediate access to detailed views of one or more critical areas to navigate.

Claim (Index 1):
A road vehicle driver assistance apparatus comprising:\n a vehicle control command acquisition unit configured to acquire at least one of current vehicle control commands relating to steering angle, acceleration, deceleration, velocity and shift position; an image acquisition unit configured to acquire true-images at a circumference of the vehicle from a plurality of on-board cameras disposed on a front, a rear and sides of the vehicle; an image processing unit configured to synthesize a plurality of the true-images taken by the plurality of on-board cameras to thereby create a bird's eye image looking down on the vehicle from above the vehicle; a display device configured to display the created bird's eye image; an obstacle identification device configured to identify obstacles around the vehicle; and a processing unit configured to calculate a maneuver corridor of the vehicle based on at least one of the acquired at least one of current vehicle control commands relating to steering angle, acceleration, deceleration and velocity, to represent a space that the vehicle will traverse when travelling in accordance with the acquired at least one of current vehicle control commands, wherein the processing unit is configured to determine, from the identified obstacles, critical obstacles that are within a predetermined proximity of the calculated maneuver corridor as well as corresponding critical points of the vehicle calculated to come into the predetermined proximity of the identified obstacles when traversing the calculated maneuver corridor; wherein the image processing unit is further configured to synthesize borders of the calculated maneuver corridor, representations of the critical obstacles, and marks for critical points of the vehicle; the display device is further configured to display, overlaid on the bird's eye image, the synthesized borders of the calculated maneuver corridor, the representations of the critical obstacles, and the marks for critical points of the vehicle; the processing unit is further configured to determine, from the true-images acquired at the circumference of the vehicle, best camera angles and positions to navigate the critical points of the vehicle past the critical obstacles; and the display device is further configured to display, separate from the bird's eye image, at least one image acquired from a determined best camera angle and position to navigate a critical obstacle.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 32.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.76923
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15283557', '13818353', '12737439', '13880490', '14857979']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6327919666243392
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4801791445493825
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6175306844168436
- Mean Citation Score: 219.150734
- Max Citation Score: 221.9748
- Similarity Product: 177.5156868407249

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

Dataset: test