PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15897317
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["347", "012000"]

Abstract:
There is provided an image processing apparatus including a controller configured to: acquire scan data indicating a scan image including first and second specific color areas each indicating a part thereof printed by using a first nozzle and a third specific color area indicating a part thereof printed by using a second nozzle; and generate a plurality of parameters, by using the scan data, each of the plurality of parameters indicating jetting characteristic of a coloring material from one of the first and second nozzles corresponding thereto. The controller evaluates the difference between a color of the first specific color area and a color of the second specific color area, and the controller generates a parameter included in the plurality of parameters and corresponding to the second nozzle, by using a result of the evaluation of the difference and a value of a third pixel within the third specific color area.

Claim (Index 1):
An image processing apparatus for a printing apparatus which is configured to perform printing by using a plurality of nozzles, the plurality of nozzles being located at mutually different positions from each other in a first direction and the plurality of nozzles including a first nozzle and a second nozzle,\n the image processing apparatus comprising a controller configured to perform:\n acquiring scan data indicating a scan image; and \n generating a plurality of parameters corresponding to the plurality of nozzles, respectively, by using the scan data, each of the plurality of parameters indicating jetting characteristic of a coloring material from one of the plurality of nozzles corresponding thereto, \n wherein the scan data is generated by optically reading a sheet on which a specific color image represented by a specific color has been printed by the printing apparatus, wherein the specific color image is printed on the sheet by using a specific color image data indicating the specific color image, wherein the scan image includes:\n a first specific color area, the first specific color area indicating a first part included in the specific color image and being printed by using the first nozzle, and the first specific color area being not adjacent, in a second direction corresponding to the first direction in the printing apparatus, to a background color area indicating a background color of the sheet; \n a second specific color area, the second specific color area indicating a second part included in the specific color image and being printed by using the first nozzle, and the second specific color area being adjacent to the background color area in the second direction; and \n a third specific color area, the third specific color area indicating a third part included in the specific color image and being printed by using the second nozzle, and the third specific color area being adjacent to the background color area in the second direction, and \n wherein in a case that the controller performs generating the plurality of parameters, the controller is configured to perform:\n evaluating difference between a color of the first specific color area and a color of the second specific color area based on a value of a first pixel within the first specific color area and a value of a second pixel within the second specific color area; and \n generating a parameter included in the plurality of parameters and corresponding to the second nozzle, by using a result of the evaluation of the difference between the color of the first specific color area and the color of the second specific color area and a value of a third pixel within the third specific color area.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.56452
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15415152', '15715173', '12966743', '15086923', '12966781']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7378918141964544
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.456979958017697
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7098006285785787
- Mean Citation Score: 174.29588400000003
- Max Citation Score: 182.39476
- Similarity Product: 154.52619532241346

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