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 17):
The printing apparatus according to  claim 16 , wherein\n the controller uses each of the N\u00d7M kinds of masks in order in the corresponding main scanning operation repeatedly in cycles of the main scanning operation performed N\u00d7M times.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 36.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.87273
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15742033', '11536309', '12594475', '15312179', '15124031']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7950549437691704
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5166076662714925
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7672102160194026
- Mean Citation Score: 289.048686
- Max Citation Score: 303.17273
- Similarity Product: 185.2276058094513

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