PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15937730
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["358", "518000"]

Abstract:
An image processing apparatus determines whether each of pixels in a scanned image is a color pixel or a monochrome pixel, determines whether each of blocks including the multiple pixels in the scanned image is a color block or a monochrome block, based on determination results of the respective pixels, and determines that the scanned image is a color image in a case where an arrangement pattern of blocks determined to be color blocks matches a predetermined pattern.

Claim (Index 21):
The image processing apparatus according to  claim 16 , wherein the first determination determines that blocks in at least one of a leading edge region and a trailing edge region of the image in a sub-scanning direction are monochrome blocks.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14731336', '14715313', '14101949', '13064049', '09263805']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.560842011311963
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5183541903831748
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5565932292190842
- Mean Citation Score: 239.65724600000004
- Max Citation Score: 313.66516
- Similarity Product: 261.34199040839195

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

Dataset: test