PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15899890
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["347", "009000"]

Abstract:
A block configured with Nb pixels included in image data is classified into Nt groups, position information which is information indicating a position of the pixel configuring is created, a block gradation value is decided by a data amount smaller than a data amount required for representing gradation values of the Nb pixels based on the gradation value for each pixel configuring each group, for each of the Nt groups, dot arrangement which is information indicating the presence or absence of dot formation for each pixel configuring the block is temporarily decided based on the block gradation value, for each of the Nt groups as the target, the dot arrangement targeting the block is decided by using the temporarily decided dot arrangement and the position information, and it is determined whether or not the dot arrangement decided by the dot arrangement deciding unit is corrected by using an error diffusion method.

Claim (Index 1):
An image forming system comprising:\n a classifying unit that classifies a block configured with Nb pixels included in image data as a target into Nt (Nt is integer satisfying 2\u2264Nt<Nb) groups including a group including a pixel of the highest gradation value and a group including a pixel of the lowest gradation value; a position information creating unit that creates position information which is information indicating a position of the pixel configuring a group with respect to at least one of the Nt groups; a block gradation value deciding unit that decides a block gradation value by a data amount smaller than a data amount required for representing gradation values of the Nb pixels based on the gradation value for each pixel configuring each group, for each of the Nt groups as the target; a temporary deciding unit that temporarily decides dot arrangement which is information indicating the presence or absence of dot formation for each pixel configuring the block based on the block gradation value, for each of the Nt groups as the target; a dot arrangement deciding unit that decides the dot arrangement targeting the block by using the temporarily decided dot arrangement and the position information; a determining unit that determines whether or not the dot arrangement decided by the dot arrangement deciding unit is corrected by using an error diffusion method; a correcting unit that corrects the dot arrangement in a case where it is determined by the determining unit that the dot arrangement is corrected; and an image forming unit that forms an image by using the dot arrangement.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.44615
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13428462', '15079408', '13428528', '14319141', '11600988']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7699207241850518
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.506544823707937
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7435831341373403
- Mean Citation Score: 274.14684200000005
- Max Citation Score: 279.94772
- Similarity Product: 184.03970357880115

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

Dataset: test