PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15976976
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["358", "001120"]

Abstract:
An image processing device includes: a fold unit that folds an adjustment sheet based on a predetermined reference fold position; a punch hole former that forms a punch hole in a stacked portion of the adjustment sheet, created as a consequence of folding of the adjustment sheet; an image reader that reads an image of the adjustment sheet with the adjustment sheet unfolded, in which the punch hole is formed; and a position identifying unit that identifies a position of a fold line using at least positions of a pair of punch hole images which appear in the image of the adjustment sheet and on both sides of the fold line of the adjustment sheet.

Claim (Index 13):
A method comprising:\n controlling folding of an adjustment sheet along a fold line using a reference fold position; forming a pair of punch holes in a stacked portion of the adjustment sheet, created by the folding of the adjustment sheet,\n wherein one punch hole of the pair of punch holes is formed on one side of the fold line and another punch hole of the pair of punch holes is formed on another side of the fold line opposite to the one side of the fold line; \n reading an image of the adjustment sheet in which the pair of punch holes has been formed, with the adjustment sheet unfolded; and calculating an actual position of the fold line, after the fold line has been formed, using at least calculated actual positions of images of the pair of punch holes appearing in the read image of the read adjustment sheet.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.21818
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15945804', '15946047', '13924739', '11608424', '11058160']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5111806391733865
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4966729298616595
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5097298682422138
- Mean Citation Score: 177.896272
- Max Citation Score: 219.25768
- Similarity Product: 151.24166589750766

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

Dataset: test