PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16186035
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["399", "342000"]

Abstract:
There is disclosed an image post-processing method for adjusting glossiness of a fixed toner image. The method includes a glossiness control step and a temperature control step. The glossiness control step is a step of, to a toner image formed of a toner containing a light absorbing compound and fixed to a recording medium, emitting glossiness control light so as to reduce or increase glossiness of the toner image. The temperature control step is a step of heating the toner image immediately before the light is emitted to the toner image such that the toner image has a surface temperature which is at least 20° C. lower than a softening temperature of the toner. The glossiness control light has a maximum emission wavelength in a wavelength range in which the compound absorbs light and is made to at least reduce the glossiness of the toner image.

Claim (Index 17):
An image forming apparatus comprising:\n a transfer unit which transfers, onto a recording medium, a toner image formed, in a developing unit, of a toner containing a light absorbing compound; and a fixing unit which fixes the toner image to the recording medium, wherein the image post-processing apparatus according to  claim 15  is attached to the image forming apparatus.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 12.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.55
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16186002', '11610083', '12495192', '10667490', '12144267']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8138152252555054
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5221268536025397
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7846463880902088
- Mean Citation Score: 262.038088
- Max Citation Score: 370.52222
- Similarity Product: 314.77560931271785

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

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