PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16061342
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["347", "101000"]

Abstract:
A printing apparatus performing printing by an inkjet scheme includes: an inkjet head; and a controller, configured to control the operation of a main scan driver and a sub scan driver to perform a main scanning operation multiple times on each position on a medium. In the main scanning operation, for at least part of ejection positions serving as ejection targets of ink droplets in the main scanning operation, the controller causes the inkjet head to eject an ink droplet in accordance with a mask for selecting part of the at least part of ejection positions.

Claim (Index 10):
A printing method in which printing is performed on a medium by an inkjet scheme, the printing method comprising:\n causing an inkjet head, configured to eject an ink droplet by the inkjet scheme,\n to perform a main scanning operation of ejecting an ink droplet while moving relative to the medium in a preset main scanning direction and a sub scanning operation of moving relative to the medium in a sub scanning direction orthogonal to the main scanning direction, and \n to perform the main scanning operation multiple times on each position on the medium; \n wherein in the main scanning operation each time, for at least part of ejection positions serving as ejection targets of ink droplets in the main scanning operation, causing the inkjet head to eject an ink droplet, in accordance with a mask configured to select part of the at least part of ejection positions, to an ejection position specified by the mask; causing the inkjet head to eject an ink droplet in accordance with a preset first mask in the main scanning operation at one time; and causing the inkjet head to eject an ink droplet in accordance with a second mask configured to select an ejection position in a pattern different from the first mask, in the main scanning operation at another time different from the one time.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 36.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.87273
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15742033', '11536309', '12594475', '15312179', '15124031']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7766437073065421
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4975483213764404
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7487341687135319
- Mean Citation Score: 289.048686
- Max Citation Score: 303.17273
- Similarity Product: 280.41782873240174

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

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