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 6):
A method comprising:\n monitoring a brake light condition by a front-facing camera mounted to a surface of a non-motorized vehicle and arranged such that a field of view of the front-facing camera is positioned towards a rear region of a motor vehicle; detecting light emitted from at least two brake indication lights situated at the rear region of the motor vehicle, by the front-facing camera; upon detecting the emitted light by the front-facing camera, determining whether the brake light condition of the at least two brake indication lights is activated in a manner indicative of vehicle braking; upon determining that the vehicle is braking, determining whether a brake command signal is sensed from a tr upon determining a failure to sense the brake command signal from the trailer brake controller, providing a non-motorized vehicle brake activation signal as a failsafe to activate the brakes of the non-motorized vehicle trailer brake controller at the motor vehicle; and

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): 0.59193834947274
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4888742294732713
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5816319374727932
- Mean Citation Score: 253.283978
- Max Citation Score: 267.3661
- Similarity Product: 210.61924043102263

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