PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16296331
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-03
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["412", "006000"]

Abstract:
A printing apparatus capable of producing a product having the optimum image layout dependent on a discharge destination even when saddle-stitching is canceled due to input of image data for sheets in excess of a limit of a saddle-stitchable number of sheets. The number of output sheets per one copy is calculated based on image data. When the number of output sheets per one copy exceeds a saddle-stitchable number of sheets, it is selected whether to perform the center folding processing on the sheets on which images are printed without performing the saddle stitching processing thereon or to perform neither the saddle stitching processing nor the center folding processing on the sheets on which images are printed.

Claim (Index 8):
A printing apparatus that is connectable to a post-processing apparatus capable of performing a saddle-stitching process, the printing apparatus comprising:\n an image forming device configured to form one or more images on a plurality of recording sheets including a cover sheet and a body sheet; a conveying portion configured to convey the plurality of recording sheets, on which the one or more images are formed by the image forming device, to the post-processing apparatus; and a controller configured to control at least the image forming device and the post-processing apparatus, wherein the controller is configured:\n in a case in which a job is received for which the saddle-stitching process is designated, to determine whether or not a number of recording sheets per one set is larger than an upper limit of a number of sheets for the saddle-stitching process; \n in a case in which it is determined that the number of recording sheets per one set is not larger than the upper limit of the number of sheets for the saddle-stitching process, to control an image forming order so that image formation is performed lastly for the cover sheet, and to control the post-processing apparatus to perform the saddle-stitching process on the plurality of recording sheets; \n in a case in which it is determined that the number of recording sheets per one set is larger than the upper limit of the number of sheets for the saddle-stitching process, to display a plurality of options including a first option and a second option via a console section; \n in a case in which the first option is selected from among the plurality of options, to control the image forming order so that image formation is performed firstly for the cover sheet, and to control the post-processing apparatus to discharge the plurality of recording sheets without performing the saddle-stitching process on the plurality of recording sheets; and \n in a case in which the second option is selected from among the plurality of options, to interrupt the job without performing image formation.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 18.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.92063
- Patent Class: 412.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14674413', '15701932', '14078606', '16229051', '12194321']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6276005408665464
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6065102341514149
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6254915101950332
- Mean Citation Score: 428.66131400000006
- Max Citation Score: 550.2091
- Similarity Product: 446.40375114892726

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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