PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16018672
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["358", "445000"]

Abstract:
Provided is a signal processing apparatus that enables an image reading apparatus to perform higher speed processing of reading a document image. A signal processing unit is configured to convert six analog image signals obtained from a line sensor into six first signals, each of which is a 10-bit digital image signal, respectively, and to write the six first signals into a RAM at a first speed that is the same as a frequency of the analog image signals. The signal processing unit is configured to cause a serialization unit to read out from the RAM the six first signals as four second signals, each of which is a 10-bit digital image signal, at a second speed higher than the first speed, respectively, and to serialize the four second signals to generate six 7-bit serial signals.

Claim (Index 22):
The image reading apparatus according to  claim 21 , further comprising:\n a reception unit configured to convert the six low-voltage differential signals into six single end signals; a deserialization unit configured to deserialize the six single end signals for conversion into parallel signals of four pixels; and a second memory to which the parallel signals of four pixels are written.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.5614
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15272409', '12769453', '11776132', '12032494', '12684286']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4839224200957933
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5033184842441532
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4858620265106292
- Mean Citation Score: 177.97249399999995
- Max Citation Score: 287.46268
- Similarity Product: 248.3472524316454

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