PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16178593
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["358", "001180"]

Abstract:
Included are: a platen on which documents to be read are placed; an image input unit configured to read in one or a plurality of documents placed on the platen at one time; a storage unit configured to store entire image data including individual images of the documents read in at one time; an outer frame region removing unit configured to remove, from the entire image data, image data of an outer frame region at a perimeter edge portion of the platen, having a predetermined width; and an individual image cropping unit configured to crop individual images of one or a plurality of documents, from the entire image data after the image data of the outer frame region has been removed.

Claim (Index 8):
An image processing method of an image processing device, the method comprising:\n reading in one or a plurality of documents placed on a platen of the image processing device on which documents to be read are placed at one time; storing entire image data including individual images of the documents read in at one time; detecting an open/close state of a platen cover of the image processing device configured to cover documents placed on the platen when the documents are read in at one time; adding, to an outer frame region of the entire image data at a perimeter edge portion of the platen having a predetermined width, a frame image of a predetermined color, in accordance with the detected open/close state of the platen cover; and cropping individual images of one or a plurality of documents, from the entire image data after which the frame image has been added to the outer frame region, wherein, when detecting the open/close state of the platen cover,\n a black frame image is added to the outer frame region of the entire image data in a case of detecting the platen cover being in an open state, and \n a white frame image is added to the outer frame region of the entire image data in a case of detecting the platen cover being in a closed state.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.42593
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15356731', '15838521', '16178337', '13921789', '15787370']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5053111563452165
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4812608002484991
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5029061207355447
- Mean Citation Score: 199.429338
- Max Citation Score: 211.2335
- Similarity Product: 167.21983947587017

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

Dataset: test