PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16049842
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["358", "504000"]

Abstract:
A reader can read an original. A printer can form an image on a sheet based on a read result of the reader. A controller can control the printer to form a test chart on the sheet, and control the reader to read the test chart. The test chart is used for detecting a causal part of a streak that occurs when an image is formed by the printer. The test chart has a pattern for obscuring an image defect occurring when the test chart is formed by the printer.

Claim (Index 13):
An image forming apparatus, comprising:\n a reader configured to read an original; a printer configured to form an image on a sheet based on a read result of the reader; and a controller configured to:\n control the printer to form a test chart on the sheet, the test chart being used for detecting a causal part of a streak that occurs when an image is formed by the printer; and \n control the reader to read the test chart, \n wherein the test chart has a plurality of blank regions for obscuring an image defect occurring when the test chart is formed by the printer.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.28571
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16049844', '15892927', '15478450', '15997119', '12622175']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5066526523301969
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5158959330354982
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.507576980400727
- Mean Citation Score: 221.849192
- Max Citation Score: 307.0064
- Similarity Product: 230.6477894832611

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