PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15919845
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["399", "013000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a carrying part, a transfer member that transfers a developer image, a first detection part that detects an adhering object that adheres to the carrying member, generating a first detection result, and a control part that performs a carrying control in which the carrying operation of the developer image by the carrying member is controlled based on the first detection result by the first detection part.

Claim (Index 17):
An image forming apparatus, comprising:\n a development part that develops a latent image, which is created from image data to be printed on a recording medium, with a developer so that a development image is generated by the developer adhering to the latent image, a carrying part that has a carrying member of which an outer surface circulates along a carrying path to carry the developer image from the development part, the development image of the development part being designed to be placed within a designated printable section of the carrying member, a transfer member that\n is disposed opposing the carrying member and sandwiching the carrying path with the carrying member in a prescribed position such that a nip section is created between the transfer member and the carrying part at the prescribed position, and \n transfers the developer image held in the designated printable section of the carrying member to the recording medium that is conveyed along a medium conveyance path, \n a first detection part that\n is disposed in a downstream side with respect to the nip section of the transfer member in the carrying path, and \n obtains a post-transfer image of the designated printable section, the post-transfer image being composed with pixel values, \n a second detection part that\n is disposed in an upstream side with respect to the nip section of the transfer member in the carrying path, and \n obtains a pre-transfer image of the designated printable section, the pre-transfer image being composed with pixel values, \n a control part that controls a development operation of the development part and a carrying operation of the carrying part, wherein the control part determines a development region (W) of the pre-transfer image that is shaped in correspondence with an area where the developer is held on the carrying member, and the control part determines\n a processing target region of the post-transfer image that is calculated by deducting the development region of the pre-transfer image from the post-transfer image, \n a remaining region of the post-transfer image that is a remaining of the post-transfer image other than the processing target region, and \n the control part stops the carrying operation of the carrying part when a predetermined percentage of the processing target region has pixel values that differ by more than a predetermined threshold value from the remaining region.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15186013', '13947524', '12073619', '15410638', '14947724']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8067928053194087
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4754841488142515
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.773661939668893
- Mean Citation Score: 209.320228
- Max Citation Score: 224.53897
- Similarity Product: 172.38838112711548

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