PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16143175
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["358", "001180"]

Abstract:
A condition acquiring device is for acquiring condition information including binding position information and image direction information. A dividing condition setting device is for specifying at least one dividing position and a dividing order of an original image, according to an image formation rule for deriving the at least one dividing position and the dividing order in response to a combination of what are designated by the image direction information and the binding position information. An image processing device is for dividing the original image at the at least one dividing position into a plurality of divided images. The print processing device is for forming the plurality of divided images respectively on a plurality of sheets sequentially conveyed by a conveying mechanism according to the dividing order.

Claim (Index 1):
An image forming apparatus, comprising:\n a conveying mechanism configured to convey a sheet; a condition acquiring device configured to acquire condition information including binding position information for designating one of an upstream end and a downstream end of the sheet in a sheet conveying direction; a dividing condition setting device configured to set, based on the condition information, at least one dividing position and a dividing order in a longitudinal direction of an original image represented by input image data; an image processing device configured to divide the original image at the at least one dividing position into a plurality of divided images; and a print processing device configured to form the plurality of divided images respectively on a plurality of sheets sequentially conveyed by the conveying mechanism according to the dividing order, wherein the condition information further includes image direction information for designating which of two ends of the original image in the longitudinal direction is a starting end, and the dividing condition setting device specifies the at least one dividing position and the dividing order according to a predetermined image formation rule for deriving the at least one dividing position and the dividing order, in response to a combination of at least what are designated by the image direction information and the binding position information.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.4
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15834778', '11710469', '11447217', '11898148', '12700399']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5049904317340919
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4772604471022485
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5022174332709075
- Mean Citation Score: 167.82824
- Max Citation Score: 185.03546
- Similarity Product: 140.4254595301092

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