PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16169614
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["399", "049000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus, including: an image former; a sheet detection sensor; an image reader; and a hardware processor that: detects an image abnormality by analyzing the read image data and obtains a position in a sheet conveyance direction of the detected image abnormality in the read image data for each piece of the read image data corresponding to each of the sheets; estimates a conveyance interval of the plurality of sheets based on a detection result by the sheet detection sensor, and determines whether a specific periodicity exists based on the estimated conveyance interval and the position of the image abnormality detected from the read image data corresponding to each of the sheets; and when the specific periodicity is determined to exist, estimates a part corresponding to the specific periodicity as a failure point.

Claim (Index 9):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein the hardware processor uploads the estimated failure point to a server which is connected via a communication network, such that the estimated failure point is correlated with identification information of the image forming apparatus.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.39344
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15892927', '14244192', '12414139', '13968275', '12900152']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8072063650263095
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4944020326776511
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7759259317914436
- Mean Citation Score: 161.55160800000004
- Max Citation Score: 170.66724
- Similarity Product: 94.53597228449104

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