PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15938523
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["358", "001600"]

Abstract:
In an image processing apparatus, a controller sequentially selects a plurality color determination pixels within a determination area, determine whether the color determination pixel has a chromatic color, whether a first pixel adjacent to the color determination pixel is black, and determine whether a second pixel apart from the color determination pixel by one pixel. The controller determines that a first trapping process is to be executed when the color determination pixel has a chromatic color and the first pixel is black, and a second trapping process when the color determination pixel has a chromatic color, the second pixel is black, and the intermediate pixels located between the color determination pixel and the second pixel are black. Thereafter, the controller executes a first trapping process and a second trapping process, but restricts the second trapping process to the pixel on which the first trapping process is to be executed.

Claim (Index 10):
The image processing apparatus according to  claim 1 ,\n wherein the determination area includes one or more central pixels located at a central part of the determination area and a plurality of surrounding pixels arranged around and adjacent to the one or more central pixels, wherein the color determination pixel includes a first color determination pixel and a second color determination pixel, wherein the sequentially selecting a plurality of pixels includes:\n sequentially selecting the plurality of surrounding pixels in order as an objective pixel; and \n selecting, at every selection of the objective pixel, a pixel which is adjacent to the objective pixel in a direction from a position of the objective pixel to a position of the central part as the first color determination pixel and a pixel sandwiching, in association with the objective pixel, the first color determination pixel as the second color determination pixel, \n wherein the determining black pixels determine, at every selection of the objective pixel, whether the objective pixel serving as the first pixel corresponding to the first color determination pixel and the second pixel corresponding to the second color determination pixel is the black pixel, wherein the determining execution of trapping processes includes:\n determining to execute a first trapping process to add a color component of the first color determination pixel to the objective pixel when the first color determination pixel is determined to have the chromatic color and the objective pixel is determined to be a black pixel; and \n determining to execute a second trapping process to add a color component of the second color determination pixel to the objective pixel when the second color determination pixel is determined to have the chromatic color, the objective pixel is determined to be the black pixel and the first color determination pixel located between the second color determination pixel and the objective pixel is determined to be the black pixel.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.09615
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12756778', '11948682', '14325143', '12862284', '11379690']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.541476090105188
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4874846667589077
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.53607694777056
- Mean Citation Score: 213.890358
- Max Citation Score: 232.083
- Similarity Product: 190.119663651824

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

Dataset: test