PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16198629
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["358", "001130"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a main CPU, and, in an unused period in which the image forming apparatus is not used, the main CPU detects whether or not a person exists within a human detection range, on the basis of an output of a human detection sensor. When a person has been detected, by outputting a notification voice regarding an intruder, which indicates that the intruder has been detected, from a speaker, the main CPU notifies the surroundings of the image forming apparatus and also transmits an electronic mail including a message indicating that the intruder has been detected to an address that has been registered in advance and thereby notifies a user of a terminal of the address of the detection of the intruder.

Claim (Index 15):
A notification control method comprising:\n (a) setting an unused period in which an image forming apparatus is not used; (b) detecting whether or not an object exists within a given region that is set for the image forming apparatus; and (c) giving a notification that the object has been detected, in a case where existence of the object has been detected at (b) in the unused period set at (a).

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.125
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14445119', '13773393', '14228687', '14018160', '16026613']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4782437029401412
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4658943491594696
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4770087675620741
- Mean Citation Score: 142.839498
- Max Citation Score: 147.0667
- Similarity Product: 111.61667446516752

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

Dataset: test