PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15974487
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["358", "001700"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes: a halftone processing unit configured to perform halftone processing on image data by a dither matrix that includes a plurality of submatrices and decide an exposure region of an image. In at least one of a first dither matrix corresponding to a first section, and a second dither matrix corresponding to a second section adjacent to the first dither matrix in the main scanning direction and corresponding to a second section different from the first section in tone value, at least a size of an exposure region of an image formed by using a first submatrix corresponding to a predetermined tone value in the dither matrix and a size of an exposure region of an image formed by using a second submatrix corresponding to the predetermined tone value are different.

Claim (Index 12):
The apparatus according to  claim 9 , wherein in at least one of the first dither matrix and the second dither matrix, the size of the development region of the image formed by using the first submatrix corresponding to the predetermined tone value in the dither matrix and a size of a development region of an image formed by using a third submatrix corresponding to the predetermined tone value are different, and\n the third submatrix is scanned in the same line as the first submatrix in the main scanning direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 49.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.64151
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11412478', '14522375', '11794286', '12179122', '14992276']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.502774456303697
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.511551090412071
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5036521197145344
- Mean Citation Score: 230.367518
- Max Citation Score: 245.757
- Similarity Product: 170.18525650227068

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

Dataset: test