PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16169614
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["399", "049000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus, including: an image former; a sheet detection sensor; an image reader; and a hardware processor that: detects an image abnormality by analyzing the read image data and obtains a position in a sheet conveyance direction of the detected image abnormality in the read image data for each piece of the read image data corresponding to each of the sheets; estimates a conveyance interval of the plurality of sheets based on a detection result by the sheet detection sensor, and determines whether a specific periodicity exists based on the estimated conveyance interval and the position of the image abnormality detected from the read image data corresponding to each of the sheets; and when the specific periodicity is determined to exist, estimates a part corresponding to the specific periodicity as a failure point.

Claim (Index 5):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 4 , wherein\n the hardware processor distinguishes whether the spot-like image abnormality is a colored spot having a density higher than a density of a surrounding portion or a white spot having a density lower than the density of the surrounding portion to detect the spot-like image abnormality, and the hardware processor determines whether the specific periodicity exists based on positions in the sheet conveyance direction of colored spots or of white spots which are located at a same position in the sheet width direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.39344
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15892927', '14244192', '12414139', '13968275', '12900152']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8090426478303613
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4830953330591084
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.776447916353236
- Mean Citation Score: 161.55160800000004
- Max Citation Score: 170.66724
- Similarity Product: 106.88508400076866

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

Dataset: test