PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15933250
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["347", "195000"]

Abstract:
A printer includes a processor and a thermal head having a plurality of heating elements to print an image having a plurality of print lines on a printing medium on the basis of printing data, wherein in an initial control period, for any printing data, the processor causes the thermal head to perform a division printing for each of the print lines that are to be printed in the control period, the division printing being such that for each print line to be printed, the plurality of heating elements are divided into a plurality of subgroups and the respective subgroups of the heating elements are activated in a time-divided manner, and wherein in a normal period after the control period, the processor causes the thermal head performs a non-division printing for at least some of the print lines that are to be printed in the normal period.

Claim (Index 7):
A printing system, comprising:\n a printer; and a printing controller, wherein the printer includes a thermal head having a plurality of heating elements to print an image constituted of a plurality of print lines on a printing medium line by line on the basis of printing data, and wherein the printing controller performs the following:\n defining a control period from a start of printing and a normal period after the control period; and \n controlling the thermal head such that:\n in the control period, for any printing data, the thermal head performs a division printing for each of the print lines that are to be printed in the control period, the division printing being such that for each print line to be printed, the plurality of heating elements are divided into a plurality of subgroups and the respective subgroups of the heating elements are activated in a time-divided manner; and \n in the normal period, the thermal head performs a non-division printing for at least some of the print lines that are to be printed in the normal period, the non-division printing being such that for each print line to be printed, corresponding heating elements of the thermal head are activated at once.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.67241
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13029679', '15472122', '13626005', '15694570', '15846933']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7633073477783895
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4790930949468732
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7348859224952379
- Mean Citation Score: 231.886486
- Max Citation Score: 235.63693
- Similarity Product: 192.95687150064708

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

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