PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16124119
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["358", "461000"]

Abstract:
An image reading apparatus includes an imaging device for generating a white reference image of a white reference member and a document image of a document and a periphery of the document, and a processor for performing first processing for detecting a dirt substance from the white reference image, generating data for shading correction based on the white reference image, correcting the document image using the data for shading correction to generate a correction image, and performing second processing for detecting a dirt substance from the correction image. One of the first processing or the second processing is performed using a dirt substance detection result of the other one of the first processing or the second processing.

Claim (Index 2):
The image reading apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein the processor determines whether a dirt substance is present on a side of the imaging device or on a side of the white reference member using a dirt substance detection result of the second processing, in the first processing.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.61702
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16124155', '16124091', '13215680', '15968394', '10851155']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5533511197307178
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5234021051840985
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5503562182760559
- Mean Citation Score: 256.16266400000006
- Max Citation Score: 316.0892
- Similarity Product: 216.280153076458

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