PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16007066
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["399", "004000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus, for performing image forming by transferring and fixing an image formed on an image carrier to a printing material, that selects a smallest dot size of a halftone dot pattern representing a halftone of a highlight region corresponding to a type of the printing material, and uses a screen representing the selected smallest dot size to perform exposure control of the image carrier.

Claim (Index 8):
The method according to  claim 5 , wherein the type of the printing material is identified by at least one piece of information out of a grammage, a paper thickness, a density, resistivity, a surface roughness, smoothness, air permeability, a hue, whiteness level, and a degree of gloss of the printing material.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 6.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.775
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15001466', '11589133', '13304755', '11358061', '12487417']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8241161215572007
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4905535421595882
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7907598636174396
- Mean Citation Score: 208.983418
- Max Citation Score: 212.66034
- Similarity Product: 134.46288083189964

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