PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16112108
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["347", "211000"]

Abstract:
A method for printing includes analyzing print quality requirements for a printing area; adjusting settings for heater elements (e.g., energy and/or firing durations) of strobe lines based on the requirements analysis; and providing a plurality of individual strobe signals to the strobe lines. The strobe signals can be transmitted simultaneously, for example with a field-programmable gate array. Analyzing print quality requirements can include separating the printing area into one or more areas of interest, such as rows and/or columns. For each area of interest individual print quality settings (e.g., darkness, contrast, and/or media sensitivity) may be selected.

Claim (Index 17):
A printer comprising:\n a thermal printhead comprising a plurality of heater elements; and a driver circuit communicatively coupled to the thermal printhead, wherein the driver circuit is configured to transmit one or more individual strobe signals to one or more heater elements of the plurality of heater elements, wherein the driver circuit is configured to adjust the individual strobe signals based on individual strobe durations, wherein the individual strobe durations are determined based on one or more printing requirements, wherein the one or more printing requirements are determined based on analysis of one or more regions of interest (ROI) in an image to be printed, and wherein the image to be printed is divided into the one or more ROIs.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.63768
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15449445', '15787750', '12569583', '11073847', '13795418']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7569933963972619
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5440394075407694
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7356979975116127
- Mean Citation Score: 222.344174
- Max Citation Score: 411.96054
- Similarity Product: 353.59193173611044

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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