PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15934054
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["348", "148000"]

Abstract:
A method is provided for preventing a collision between a motor vehicle and a pedestrian. The method uses a camera and a processor mountable in the motor vehicle. A candidate image is detected. Based on a change of scale of the candidate image, it may be determined that the motor vehicle and the pedestrian are expected to collide, thereby producing a potential collision warning. Further information from the image frames may be used to validate the potential collision warning. The validation may include an analysis of the optical flow of the candidate image, that lane markings prediction of a straight road, a calculation of the lateral motion of the pedestrian, if the pedestrian is crossing a lane mark or curb and/or if the vehicle is changing lanes.

Claim (Index 18):
A vehicle, comprising:\n a body; a camera; one or more memories storing instructions, and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to cause the vehicle to:\n capture a plurality of image frames from the camera of the environment of the vehicle in a field of view of the camera; \n detect an image patch in at least one of the image frames, wherein the image patch includes a candidate image of a pedestrian in the field of view of the camera; \n determine if the pedestrian is on a far side of a curb or lane mark and determining whether the pedestrian is crossing the curb or the lane mark; \n in accordance with a determination that the pedestrian is on the far side of the curb or lane mark and a determination that the pedestrian is not crossing the curb or the lane mark: inhibit a collision warning or a collision prevention control signal; in accordance with a determination that the pedestrian is on the far side of the curb or lane mark and a determination that the pedestrian is crossing the curb or the lane mark: provide a collision warning or a navigation control signal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.94366
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14982198', '13455719', '13313227', '14737522', '15158294']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.611854611152312
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5718887665927362
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6078580266963545
- Mean Citation Score: 346.585994
- Max Citation Score: 470.72403
- Similarity Product: 373.787973338644

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