PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16077595
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["250", "340000"]

Abstract:
A system for detecting the position of a steering wheel of a motor vehicle, the system includes: a matrix-array optical detecting device, of the type known as a time-of-flight camera, enabling three-dimensional detection, the device including an infrared light source and a matrix-array optical sensor; and optical reference elements arranged on the rim of the steering wheel, on the side opposite the driver, the matrix-array optical detecting device being arranged in an instrument panel of the vehicle, and being configured to detect the optical reference elements on the steering wheel, and to deduce therefrom the adjustment position of the steering wheel at least depthwise.

Claim (Index 8):
A method for detecting the position of a steering wheel of a motor vehicle, in a heightwise position and a depthwise position, in a detecting system comprising a matrix-array optical detecting device as a time-of-flight camera, said device including an infrared light source and a matrix-array optical sensor, said system also comprising optical reference elements that are arranged on a rim of the steering wheel, on the side opposite the driver, the method comprising:\n making a source emit modulated infrared light; detecting, with the matrix-array optical sensor, the light echoes reflected by the optical reference elements; carrying out calculations allowing a phase difference to be determined at each point on the matrix array and a distance between the matrix-array optical sensor and the various optical reference elements on the rim of the steering wheel to be deduced therefrom; and deducing therefrom the heightwise position and the depthwise position of the steering wheel.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.05357
- Patent Class: 250.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11826834', '15534018', '16077604', '11055546', '14357469']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6896633133873796
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4707923754887022
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6677762195975119
- Mean Citation Score: 142.606754
- Max Citation Score: 152.33786
- Similarity Product: 107.78675108181238

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