PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15907861
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["399", "045000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes an image formation unit configured to form an image on a recording material, a conveyance unit configured to convey a recording material, an irradiation unit configured to emit light onto the recording material being conveyed by the conveyance unit, an image capturing unit configured to capture the light emitted by the irradiation unit and reflected from the recording material as a surface image of the recording material, and a control unit configured to control an image forming condition of the image formation unit based on the surface image of the recording material acquired by the image capturing unit, wherein the control unit controls the image forming condition based on a plurality of surface images of the recording material having different resolutions.

Claim (Index 7):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1  further comprising:\n a transmission unit configured to transmit an ultrasonic wave; and \n a reception unit configured to receive the ultrasonic wave transmitted by the transmission unit and passing through the recording material, \n wherein the control unit controls the image forming condition based on the plurality of surface images and the ultrasonic wave received by the reception unit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.80851
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15334132', '14941103', '15423448', '12147377', '15360804']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8139272723981309
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4911621839519353
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7816507635535114
- Mean Citation Score: 244.813168
- Max Citation Score: 297.62946
- Similarity Product: 267.722067024107

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