PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15936987
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["358", "001120"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes an operation acceptance section, a storage section, a sheet feed cassette, a plurality of trays, a sorting mechanism, a scanner, a data analyzing section, and a control section. The scanner scans an image of a sheet. The data analyzing section analyzes image data of the sheet scanned by the scanner. When the operation acceptance section accepts a specification of a sorting condition from a user, the control section allows the storage section to store the sorting condition and allows the sorting mechanism to sort the sheet to one of the trays according to the sorting condition using an analysis result of the data analyzing section.

Claim (Index 1):
An image forming apparatus comprising:\n an operation acceptance section that accepts an operating instruction from a user; a storage section; a sheet feed cassette capable of containing sheets to be sorted; an exit slot through which the sheet is to be discharged; a conveyance path in which the sheet is to be conveyed along a predetermined direction of conveyance from the sheet feed cassette to the exit slot; a plurality of trays where the sheet discharged through the exit slot is to be loaded; a sorting mechanism that sorts the sheet discharged through the exit slot to one of the plurality of trays; a pick-up roller that picks up the sheet from the sheet feed cassette to the conveyance path; a scanner that scans an image of the sheet; a data analyzing section that analyzes image data of the sheet scanned by the scanner; and a control section that, when the operation acceptance section accepts a specification of a predetermined sorting condition from the user, allows the storage section to store the predetermined sorting condition and allows the sorting mechanism to sort the sheet to one of the trays according to the predetermined sorting condition using an analysis result of the data analyzing section.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.59574
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14708092', '14693146', '14555076', '11972132', '14852710']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5118003220956134
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4796694765188131
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5085872375379334
- Mean Citation Score: 210.172306
- Max Citation Score: 228.4155
- Similarity Product: 195.7870579461157

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

Dataset: test