PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15914880
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["358", "001120"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes an image reading unit, an original conveyance unit, a reversing unit, an image forming unit, an image forming conveyance unit, and a control unit. The original conveyance unit conveys an original in a first direction toward the image reading unit, which reads an image of the original. The reversing unit conveys an original passing through the image reading unit in the first direction, or reversely conveys the original toward the image reading unit in a second direction. The image forming unit forms an image on a sheet. The image forming conveyance unit conveys, to the image forming unit, an original reversely conveyed by the reversing unit via the image reading unit. The control unit controls an operation for reading an image of the original by using the image reading unit and for overprinting the original with an image by using the image forming unit.

Claim (Index 3):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 , further comprising an original posture correction unit configured to change the posture of the original,\n wherein the control unit corrects the posture of the original by using the original posture correction unit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.72727
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15480755', '15488688', '14261579', '14874796', '14384221']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.502741702682316
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.502143223828701
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5026818547969545
- Mean Citation Score: 202.744576
- Max Citation Score: 219.47728
- Similarity Product: 140.10758855291368

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