PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15935223
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["358", "001150"]

Abstract:
An image processing apparatus performs: acquiring target image data representing a target image including a plurality of pixels, the target image data including a plurality of sets of component image data representing respective ones of a plurality of component images; smoothing the plurality of component images to generate respective sets of a plurality of sets of smoothed component image data representing respective ones of a plurality of smoothed component images; enhancing an edge in each of the plurality of smoothed component images to generate corresponding one set of a plurality of sets of enhanced component image data; generating single-component image data including one type of component value corresponding to each of the plurality of pixels by using the plurality of sets of enhanced component image data; and specifying a plurality of edge pixels using the single-component image data, the plurality of edge pixels constituting an edge in the target image.

Claim (Index 19):
An image processing method comprising:\n acquiring target image data representing a target image including a plurality of pixels, the target image data being generated by scanning an original with an image sensor, the target image data including a plurality of sets of component image data representing respective ones of a plurality of component images, the plurality of sets of component image data corresponding to respective ones of a plurality of components constituting a specific color system; smoothing the plurality of component images to generate respective sets of a plurality of sets of smoothed component image data, the plurality of sets of smoothed component image data representing respective ones of a plurality of smoothed component images; enhancing an edge in each of the plurality of smoothed component images to generate corresponding one set of a plurality of sets of enhanced component image data, the plurality of sets of enhanced component image data representing an enhanced image; generating first single-component image data using the plurality of sets of enhanced component image data, the first single-component image data including one type of component value corresponding to each of the plurality of pixels and being different from each of the plurality of sets of enhanced component image data; and specifying a plurality of edge pixels using the first single-component image data, the plurality of edge pixels constituting an edge in the target image.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.43478
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15900918', '15900926', '15875013', '15933762', '15714002']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5481090327967939
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5436807504372392
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5476662045608385
- Mean Citation Score: 318.5881520000001
- Max Citation Score: 399.6718
- Similarity Product: 306.8703796734095

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