PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16054978
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2020-02
Patent Classification: ["null", "null"]

Abstract:
Systems and methods enable a failsafe for a trailer brake controller (TBC), by using a camera to detect braking of the towing vehicle. The methods can include using a vehicle-facing camera mounted to a trailer to detecting light emitted from rear brake lights at the towing vehicle. Then, the methods can determine whether the brakes of the towing vehicle are being engaged, based on the light detected by the vehicle-facing camera. Also, a TBC failure can be determined, and as a result, a trailer brake activation signal can be communicated at the trailer side, as a failsafe to activate the brakes of the trailer.

Claim (Index 10):
A system, comprising:\n a front-facing camera mounted to a surface of a trailer and arranged such that a field of view of the front-facing camera is positioned towards a rear region of a towing vehicle, the front-facing camera configured to: generate images including detected light emitted from one or more rear brake lights at multiple articulation angles; and a controller device communicatively coupled to the front-facing camera, the controller device configured to: analyze the images from the front-facing camera; determine whether the detected light in the images indicates that the one or more rear brake lights are activated in a manner indicative of a vehicle braking condition; upon determining the vehicle braking condition, determine whether a brake command signal is sensed from a trailer brake controller at the vehicle; and upon determining a failure to sense the brake command signal from the trailer brake controller, provide a trailer brake activation signal as a failsafe to engage brakes of the trailer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.01724
- Patent Class: nan
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14089381', '13964661', '12594462', '13933513', '15143290']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5927246427894135
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4848780419132609
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5819399827017984
- Mean Citation Score: 253.283978
- Max Citation Score: 267.3661
- Similarity Product: 223.7830226392686

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