PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16201845
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["358", "518000"]

Abstract:
An original image is read as an aggregate of a plurality of pixels in which adjacent pixels have different colors (R, G, and B) in a main scanning direction and in a sub-scanning direction, and the read pixels of the respective colors are stored in a line memory in association with information on relative positions of the pixels with respect to another pixel. Then, the stored pixels are sorted so that pixels having the same color are adjacent to each other, and an abnormal pixel (dust) not present in the original image is detected based on the state of the sorted pixels. With this, the dust not present in the original image is detected without increasing the cost, and the dust is corrected without forming a conspicuous trace of correction.

Claim (Index 24):
The image reading apparatus according to  claim 14 , wherein the instructions further include instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to correct image data of an abnormal pixel of the first color corresponding to a light receiving element disposed at a sixth position in the first direction based on image data of a pixel of the first color corresponding to a light receiving element disposed at a seventh position in the first direction, the seventh position being a position at which a light receiving element adjacent to the light receiving element disposed at the sixth position is disposed in the first direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15589327', '15602148', '15603641', '15603632', '15591789']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5040897476353061
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5378516177955996
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5074659346513355
- Mean Citation Score: 262.393444
- Max Citation Score: 351.50354
- Similarity Product: 280.0031470282364

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