PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15957509
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["701", "049000"]

Abstract:
A vehicle includes a liftgate system for mitigating a liftgate from contacting an object within a closing path of the liftgate. The liftgate system includes the liftgate, a camera, and a processor. The liftgate includes a surface facing an interior of the vehicle when the liftgate is closed. The camera is disposed on the surface. The processor detects, via the camera, an object within a closing path of the liftgate. The processors estimate a trajectory of the object when the object is in motion. The processor controls the liftgate based on the estimated trajectory and a speed setting at which the liftgate closes.

Claim (Index 1):
A vehicle comprising:\n a liftgate comprising a surface facing an interior of the vehicle when the liftgate is closed; a camera disposed on the surface; and a processor to:\n initiate a liftgate closing operation \n detect, via the camera, an object within a closing path of the liftgate; \n when the object is in motion, estimate a trajectory of the object; and \n control the liftgate based on the estimated trajectory and a speed setting at which the liftgate closes, \n wherein the liftgate is configured to move at a first speed or a second speed during the liftgate closing operation, the second speed being slower than the first speed, wherein the processor causes the liftgate to close at the first speed when the camera does not detect any object within the closing path of the liftgate, wherein when the camera detects that the object is within the closing path of the liftgate, the processor stops the liftgate closing operation, and wherein, when the processor receives instructions from a user interface to resume the liftgate closing operation, the processor resumes the liftgate closing operation such that the liftgate moves at the second speed.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.47826
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15664299', '14753924', '14159772', '15295059', '11383234']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4252891653420368
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4734678316082336
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4301070319686566
- Mean Citation Score: 175.8728
- Max Citation Score: 194.97124
- Similarity Product: 147.25979912457703

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