PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15919893
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["358", "449000"]

Abstract:
An image reading apparatus comprises a platen, a support, a reader, an open/close unit, a first obtainer, a mark, a positioning member, and a determiner. A position of the mark on a pressing surface of the cover, is provided at a position at which, in a case where a sheet of a maximum size among standard sizes that can entirely fit in a readable range of the reader is positioned with respect to the positioning member, at least a portion of the mark is not hidden by the sheet as viewed from the reader.

Claim (Index 1):
An image reading apparatus, comprising:\n a platen having a transparency and on which a sheet is placed; a support configured to support the platen; a reader configured to read an image by receiving light reflected from the sheet placed on the platen; an open/close unit configured to be able to open/close with respect to the platen, and comprising a pressure plate that presses the sheet placed on the platen when in a closed position with respect to the platen; a first obtainer configured to, in a state in which the open/close unit is in a closed position with respect to the platen, where a first direction is a direction of scanning by the reader for reading a sheet placed on the platen and a second direction is a direction orthogonal to the first direction, scan the sheet in the first direction by the reader, and obtain information related to a position of an edge positioned outermost in the second direction of the sheet; a mark formed on a pressing surface, which presses the sheet, of the pressure plate; a positioning member configured to position the sheet placed on the platen by a user in the second direction; and a determiner configured to, in a case where the open/close unit is in a closed position with respect to the platen, determine that the sheet is not protruding from a readable range of the reader if the reader can read the mark, and determine that the sheet is protruding from the readable range if the reader cannot read the mark, and wherein a position of the mark on the pressing surface, is provided at a position at which, in a case where a sheet of a maximum size among standard sizes that can entirely fit in the readable range is aligned with respect to the positioning member, at least a portion of the mark is not hidden by the sheet as viewed from the reader.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.76667
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['10787043', '15839568', '12345273', '15399859', '12591697']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5035535000309688
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4763340056775867
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5008315505956306
- Mean Citation Score: 192.343526
- Max Citation Score: 199.04672
- Similarity Product: 158.7912997370529

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