PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15938523
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["358", "001600"]

Abstract:
In an image processing apparatus, a controller sequentially selects a plurality color determination pixels within a determination area, determine whether the color determination pixel has a chromatic color, whether a first pixel adjacent to the color determination pixel is black, and determine whether a second pixel apart from the color determination pixel by one pixel. The controller determines that a first trapping process is to be executed when the color determination pixel has a chromatic color and the first pixel is black, and a second trapping process when the color determination pixel has a chromatic color, the second pixel is black, and the intermediate pixels located between the color determination pixel and the second pixel are black. Thereafter, the controller executes a first trapping process and a second trapping process, but restricts the second trapping process to the pixel on which the first trapping process is to be executed.

Claim (Index 14):
An image processing apparatus, comprising:\n a buffer configured to temporarily store image data; and a controller, wherein the controller is configured to execute; receiving image data configured such that a plurality of pixel arrays each including a plurality of pixels are arranged in a main scanning direction, the plurality of pixel arrays being aligned in a sub scanning direction which is perpendicular to the main scanning direction; setting, in the image data, an area including three or more lines of pixels aligned in a sub scanning direction, each line includes a particular number, which is three or more, of pixels aligned in a main scanning direction as a determination area; sequentially selecting a plurality of pixels within the determination area as color determination pixels; determining, referring to the buffer, whether the color determination pixel as selected has a chromatic color; determining, referring to the buffer, black pixels including:\n determining whether a first pixel adjacent to the color determination pixel is black; and \n determining whether a second pixel apart from the color determination pixel with one or more intermediate pixel therebetween is black; \n determining execution of trapping processes including:\n determining that a first trapping process to add a color component of the color determination pixel to the first pixel is to be executed when the controller determines that the color determination pixel has a chromatic color and the first pixel is black; and \n determining that a second trapping process to add the color component of the color determination pixel to the second pixel is to be executed when it is determined that the color determination pixel has a chromatic color, the second pixel is black, and the intermediate pixels located between the color determination pixel and the second pixel are black; \n executing trapping processes including:\n executing the first trapping process on a pixel on which the first trapping process is determined to be executed; and \n executing the second trapping process on a pixel on which the second trapping process is determined to be executed; \n restricting execution of napping processes including:\n restricting execution of the second trapping process on the pixel on which the first trapping process is determined to be executed, \n wherein a position of the second pixel within the determination area varies depending on the color determination pixel, wherein the setting updates the determination area by setting a plurality of areas of the image data as the determination area sequentially in accordance with reception of the image data, wherein the buffer includes:\n an area buffer having a buffer size corresponding to the determination area, the area buffer storing image data of pixel group within the determination area set by the setting among a plurality of pixels the image data has; \n a plurality of line buffers the number of which is less than the number of lines by one, the plurality of line buffers storing image data of a pixel group outside the determination area among the plurality of pixels the image data has and supposed to be set as the determination area again when the determination area is updated by the setting, and \n wherein a position of the second pixel in the determination area varies depending the color determination pixel as selected.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.09615
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12756778', '11948682', '14325143', '12862284', '11379690']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5101111793324272
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4926101161873147
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.508361073017916
- Mean Citation Score: 213.890358
- Max Citation Score: 232.083
- Similarity Product: 174.25605347907543

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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