PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16024489
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["358", "001140"]

Abstract:
Provided is an image forming apparatus that is capable of protecting the confidentiality of an image that is printed and outputted on paper. The image forming apparatus according to this disclosure is an image forming apparatus that outputs paper on which an image is formed. The image forming apparatus includes an imaging unit, a user-recognizing unit, a person-recognizing unit, and a control unit. The imaging unit performs imaging of the surroundings. The user-recognizing unit recognizes a user of the image forming apparatus. The person-recognizing unit recognizes persons in imaging data obtained by the imaging unit. The control unit performs confidentiality-protected output of outputting the paper so that the image on the paper is shielded when the person-recognizing unit recognizes another person who is other than the user in the imaging data.

Claim (Index 3):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 2 , wherein\n the confidentiality-recognizing unit recognizes that there is confidentiality when a preset character string is recognized in the image.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.61111
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15959191', '11536600', '15421376', '12700399', '14087982']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4739558809193498
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5009005411625018
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.476650346943665
- Mean Citation Score: 172.28361999999996
- Max Citation Score: 193.23131
- Similarity Product: 130.43483366572977

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

Dataset: test