PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15767963
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["701", "045000"]

Abstract:
A protection control device is for being used in a vehicle having a protection device and includes an output value acquisition unit, an object recognition unit, a collision subject identification unit, a collision position acquisition unit, and an operation determination unit. The operation determination unit uses, as an operation threshold, a predetermined default threshold when a collision position acquired by the collision position acquisition unit is not in a low output area of a front end portion where the output value of the collision sensor is likely to be lower than another area of the front end portion. The operation determination unit uses, as the operation threshold, a low output area threshold when the collision position is in the low output area of the front end portion. The low output area threshold is less than the predetermined default threshold.

Claim (Index 10):
A protection control device for being used in a vehicle having a protection device for protecting a person colliding with the vehicle, the protection control device comprising:\n an output value acquisition unit configured to acquire an output value of a collision sensor for detecting a collision of a front end portion of the vehicle with an other object; an object recognition unit configured to acquire information about an object existing in front of the vehicle; a collision subject identification unit configured to identify a collision subject based on the information acquired by the object recognition unit, the collision subject being a subject colliding with the vehicle; a collision position acquisition unit configured to acquire a collision position where the collision subject collides with the front end portion of the vehicle; and an operation determination unit configured to control an operation of the protection device based on the output value, which is acquired by the output value acquisition unit, wherein the front end portion of the vehicle includes a low output area where the output value of the collision sensor is likely to be lower than an other area of the front end portion, the low output area includes a corner portion of the front end portion, and when the collision position, which is acquired by the collision position acquisition unit, is in the low output area of the front end portion, the operation determination unit is configured to operate the protection device by the output value less than the output value when the collision position is not in the low output area.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.74545
- Patent Class: 701.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11998110', '14595366', '15367027', '15742395', '15711294']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.43406691289437
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4882885335170479
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4394890749566378
- Mean Citation Score: 197.872588
- Max Citation Score: 209.277
- Similarity Product: 140.31000829982756

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

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