PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16124155
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["358", "001140"]

Abstract:
An image processing apparatus includes a processor for acquiring an image of a reference member, calculating a dirt degree at an imaging position by comparing a gradient value of a pixel with a gradient value of peripheral pixels of the pixel or comparing the gradient value of the pixel with a reference value, with regard to a pixel included in the acquired image of the reference member, and generating when the dirt degree is equal to or more than a first threshold. When the dirt degree is less than the first threshold and equal to or more than a second threshold that is smaller than the first threshold, the processor generates the warning only when a scan count exceeds a scan count threshold, and when the dirt degree is less than the second threshold, the processor does not generate the warning.

Claim (Index 3):
The image processing apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein\n when the dirt degree is equal to or more than a third threshold that is larger than the second threshold, the processor stores a position of a pixel corresponding to the dirt degree as a dirt position in the storage device, when the dirt degree is less than the third threshold and equal to or more than the second threshold and the position of the pixel corresponding to the dirt degree is not stored in the storage device as the dirt position, the processor does not generate the warning regardless of whether the scan count exceeds the scan count threshold or not, and when the dirt degree is less than the third threshold and equal to or more than the second threshold and the position of the pixel corresponding to the dirt degree is stored in the storage device as the dirt position, the processor generates the warning only when the scan count exceeds the scan count threshold.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.52542
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16124091', '11041722', '14615579', '10014109', '12582400']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5245800622056712
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5199791905117708
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5241199750362812
- Mean Citation Score: 181.010228
- Max Citation Score: 244.27573
- Similarity Product: 131.29152767362294

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