PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15949923
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["358", "003260"]

Abstract:
An image reading apparatus, including: a conveyance unit configured to convey a document along a conveyance path; a transparent plate provided to the conveyance path; a reading unit configured to read an image of the document passing the transparent plate; a detector configured to detect a foreign substance on the transparent plate from image data output from the reading unit; a light source provided to one end side face of the transparent plate; and a controller configured to control lighting-up of the light source based on a detection result of the detector.

Claim (Index 5):
An image reading apparatus according to  claim 4 , wherein the conveyance unit is provided so as to be openable and closable with respect to a main body of the image reading apparatus,\n wherein the image reading apparatus further comprises an opening and closing detector configured to detect an opened state and a closed state of the conveyance unit, wherein, when a foreign substance is detected by the detector and the opened state of the conveyance unit is detected by the opening and closing detector, the controller controls the light source to blinkingly light up, and when the foreign substance is detected by the detector and the closed state of the conveyance unit is detected by the opening and closing detector, the controller controls the light source to continuously light up.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.12766
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12981843', '12630753', '14106586', '12831977', '14154254']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5190658498963332
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4962902086868557
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5167882857753855
- Mean Citation Score: 177.098054
- Max Citation Score: 189.10222
- Similarity Product: 123.12218609128476

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

Dataset: test