PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16178337
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["358", "001600"]

Abstract:
An image processing apparatus includes a platen on which a document to be read is placed, an image input unit configured to read, at a time, one or a plurality of documents placed on the platen, an individual image extraction unit configured to extract individual images of the one or the plurality of documents read at a time, an individual image location judgment unit configured to determine whether the extracted individual images are each located within one of areas set in a reading area of the platen depending on the number of documents to be read, and an individual image selection unit configured to, in a case where one or a plurality of the extracted individual images are located within a particular area, select one individual image as an image to be captured in the area based on a predetermined selection criterion.

Claim (Index 8):
The image processing apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein the image processing apparatus is configured to perform an operation, the operation comprising:\n to read a particular first side of reading sides of each document of the plurality of documents, placing, by a user, the plurality of documents on the platen such that one document is located within one of areas set in the reading area of the platen without overlapping between documents, and then reading, using the image input unit, the first side of each of the plurality of documents; thereafter, re-placing the plurality of documents such that each document is turned over and placed in the same area as the area in which the document is located when the first side of the document is read, and then reading, using the image input unit, a second side of each document different from the first side; and extracting, using the individual image extraction unit, from the read images of the plurality of documents, the individual image of the first side of each of the plurality of documents and the individual image of the second side of each of the plurality of documents, and associating, each individual image of a first side of a document placed in a particular area of the platen and a corresponding individual image of a second side of a document placed in the same particular area thereby obtaining image information of a front side and a back side of one document.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 22.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.51667
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12823920', '16473408', '12355166', '14664942', '14063564']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4570076872733321
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4969242130654735
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4609993398525462
- Mean Citation Score: 200.77197
- Max Citation Score: 221.00746
- Similarity Product: 164.99863081273676

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 0
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test