PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15941979
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["347", "179000"]

Abstract:
A decoloring apparatus includes a reading unit that reads an image formed on a sheet and outputs image information corresponding to the read image. A control unit is configured to recognize the image information output by the reading unit and determine whether decoloring using the decoloring unit is performed on the sheet based on the recognized image information.

Claim (Index 26):
The apparatus according to  claim 21 , wherein:\n the control unit is further configured to:\n receive pre-decoloring image information from the reading unit, the received pre-decoloring image information corresponding to the surface of the sheet read by the reading unit before the decoloring unit has performed the decoloring processing on the sheet, and \n determine whether the decoloring unit performs the decoloring processing on the sheet based on the received pre-decoloring image information.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 53.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.76471
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15605434', '14749451', '14293723', '13198597', '14482554']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7305168216117854
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4987399379606692
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7073391332466739
- Mean Citation Score: 207.46407
- Max Citation Score: 242.79643
- Similarity Product: 182.59167901593207

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

Dataset: test