PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16186035
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["399", "342000"]

Abstract:
There is disclosed an image post-processing method for adjusting glossiness of a fixed toner image. The method includes a glossiness control step and a temperature control step. The glossiness control step is a step of, to a toner image formed of a toner containing a light absorbing compound and fixed to a recording medium, emitting glossiness control light so as to reduce or increase glossiness of the toner image. The temperature control step is a step of heating the toner image immediately before the light is emitted to the toner image such that the toner image has a surface temperature which is at least 20° C. lower than a softening temperature of the toner. The glossiness control light has a maximum emission wavelength in a wavelength range in which the compound absorbs light and is made to at least reduce the glossiness of the toner image.

Claim (Index 5):
The image post-processing method according to  claim 1 , wherein the temperature control step is a step of heating the toner image immediately before the glossiness control light is emitted to the toner image such that the toner image has the surface temperature which is at least 30\u00b0 C. lower than the softening temperature of the toner.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 12.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.55
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16186002', '11610083', '12495192', '10667490', '12144267']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8315849238667078
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5245057135780253
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8008770028378396
- Mean Citation Score: 262.038088
- Max Citation Score: 370.52222
- Similarity Product: 285.2017708806312

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