PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16014086
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["358", "001150"]

Abstract:
An image forming device includes: a post processor that performs post processing for folding or forming crease on an adjustment sheet including a reference mark and an adjustment pattern filled in with black, across the adjustment pattern based on a predetermined reference position; an image reader that reads an image of the adjustment sheet under a condition that an orientation of the adjustment sheet is changed according to the post processing type or characteristics of the adjustment sheet which is placed on the platen so that the reference mark is in a predetermined direction; a position identifying unit that identifies a fold line or crease position based on the fold line or crease that appears in the adjustment sheet; and a position adjusting unit that adjusts a fold or crease position of the post processor based on a difference between the fold or crease position and the reference position.

Claim (Index 12):
An image forming device comprising\n an image former that forms in advance a reference mark indicating an orientation of a sheet to be placed on a platen, and an adjustment pattern filled in with black or a highly concentrated color in an area folded by or an area in which a crease is formed by a post processor, wherein the sheet is for identifying a position of a fold line or a crease of the post processor that performs post processing to execute folding or form a crease on paper, the orientation of the sheet to be placed on the platen is changed according to the post processing or paper characteristics of the sheet, and the position of a fold line or a crease is identified by reading an image of the sheet with the sheet unfolded and placed on the platen.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.42188
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16010679', '15945804', '15946047', '13067276', '15976976']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4838804827022535
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.512109529481709
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.486703387380199
- Mean Citation Score: 258.87428800000004
- Max Citation Score: 276.13544
- Similarity Product: 209.556433110075

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

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