Patent Application Analysis on Autonomous Driving Vehicles
With the rapid development in the automotive industry,vehicles with autonomous driving function find its way into the daily life of the mass.Autonomous driving technology is a product of the deep integration of automotive industry with various new-generation information technology such as artificial intelligence,high performance computation,big data,internet of things,as well as transportation,urban management and other fields.This technology has far-reaching implications in lowering the rates of traffic jam and traffic accident,helping build a highly efficient and safe transportation structure for city in the future,deepening the reform of automotive industry,and constructing an intelligent city.Based on HimmPat database,this paper focuses on the analysis of patent applications regarding autonomous driving vehicles,and predicts the development trend of autonomous driving vehicles.