PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16106175
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["701", "096000"]

Abstract:
A driving support ECU performs an inter-vehicle-distance control and a following-travel steering control. When an inter-vehicle-distance target vehicle and a following-travel steering target vehicle are the same specific other vehicle as each other, and there is a potential cutting-in vehicle between an own vehicle and the specific other vehicle, the driving support ECU newly specifies the potential cutting-in vehicle as the inter-vehicle-distance target vehicle at a first time point in a cutting-in period and newly specifies the potential cutting-in vehicle as the following-travel steering target vehicle at a second time point in the cutting-in period.

Claim (Index 1):
A vehicle driving support control apparatus comprising:\n target object information acquiring means for acquiring target object information including a longitudinal distance and a lateral position of each one or more of other vehicles with respect to an own vehicle, said other vehicles traveling in a front area of said own vehicle; and traveling control means for performing:\n an inter-vehicle-distance control to specify a first vehicle from among one or more of said other vehicles as an inter-vehicle-distance target vehicle, and to control an acceleration of said own vehicle in such a manner that an inter-vehicle distance which is a longitudinal distance of said inter-vehicle-distance target vehicle with respect to said own vehicle is maintained at a predetermined inter-vehicle distance, and \n a following-travel steering control to specify a second vehicle from among one or more of said other vehicles as a following-travel steering target vehicle, and to generate a traveling trajectory of said following-travel steering target vehicle to control a steering angle of said own vehicle in such a manner that said own vehicle travels along a target traveling line determined based on said traveling trajectory, \n wherein, said traveling control means is configured, when said first vehicle specified as said inter-vehicle-distance target vehicle and said second vehicle specified as said following-travel steering target vehicle are the same specific other vehicle as each other, and there is a potential cutting-in vehicle having a possibility of cutting in between said own vehicle and said specific other vehicle:\n to newly specify said potential cutting-in vehicle as said inter-vehicle-distance target vehicle at a first time point in a cutting-in period from a time point at which said potential cutting-vehicle starts cutting in to a time point at which said potential cutting-vehicle finishes cutting in; and \n to newly specify said potential cutting-in vehicle as said following-travel steering target vehicle at a second time point in said cutting-in period, wherein said second time point is set to arrive after said first time point arrives.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.53846
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16002569', '16027818', '15996779', '15274917', '15475911']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4213063062322648
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5141402236587915
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4305896979749175
- Mean Citation Score: 272.424454
- Max Citation Score: 313.60605
- Similarity Product: 252.24671426483985

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