PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15986247
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["399", "081000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus that is replenished with toner by using a toner cartridge serving as a toner container that accommodates toner, which is a consumable, and that is detachable from an apparatus body, includes, as a characteristic component of a control section that controls the image forming apparatus, a display control unit that, when a toner cartridge to be first inserted or a replacing toner cartridge is inserted, causes a display section of an operation panel to display a display (e.g. a message, an image (illustration), a moving image, or the like) that instructs a user in an operation of shaking the toner cartridge.

Claim (Index 12):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 10 , wherein the display control unit includes a function of displaying a message to an effect that a part where the display is displayed or a display screen is touched every time the operation of shaking the toner container is performed and a counting function of, after displaying the message, counting every time the user performs a touch operation on the message or display screen, and\n the operation determination unit makes a determination according to whether the touch operation has reached a predetermined number of times as counted by the counting function.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.12281
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13470515', '15647501', '14812343', '12763606', '12142947']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8301253132829635
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4826961440270029
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7953823963573674
- Mean Citation Score: 198.861404
- Max Citation Score: 206.16432
- Similarity Product: 140.6272873895359

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test