PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16362149
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-03
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["358", "001130"]

Abstract:
An energy saving setting unit controls an image forming apparatus that makes a transition to a power saving state if a transition time passes without any prescribed operation in a normal state, and it includes: a unit for storing specific day information distinguishing a normal operation day and a specific day; an auto pattern updating unit determining the transition time in a normal operation day based on past operational status of the normal operation day of the image forming apparatus; a specific day pattern registering unit receiving and storing setting of the transition time of the specific day; and a switching unit, switching the state of conduction of the image forming apparatus using the transition time determined by the auto pattern updating unit and the stored transition time, on the normal operation day and on the specific day, respectively, based on the specific day information.

Claim (Index 1):
An image forming apparatus having an electrically operated device, the image forming apparatus, comprising:\n a processor and memory that stores a program executed by the processor, said program capable of power-saving control, the processor being configured to:\n perform first control of power-saving of said image forming apparatus in accordance with a condition set by a user on a day or in a time slot set by the user; \n perform second control of power-saving of said image forming apparatus without any condition set by the user; and \n apply either said first control or said second control to said image forming apparatus, wherein \n said processor applies power-saving control to said electrically operated device, by said first control with priority over said second control on the day or in the time slot set by said user, and applies said second control with priority over said first control on other days or in other time slots, to control said electrically operated device of said image forming apparatus, wherein said image forming apparatus further includes: a first user interface that allows the user to select a first operational mode that performs the first control; a second user interface that allows the user to select a second operational mode that performs the second control; a specific day pattern registration interface receiving, from said user, designation of a power-saving pattern for each time slot of a specific day, and storing said power-saving pattern with a pattern name; and a specific day registration interface receiving, from said user, designation of a specific day to execute power-saving control and said pattern name, and storing said specific day and said pattern name that are designated by said user; said first user interface allows the user to select the first operational mode while the second operational mode is being selected; and on said specific day designated through said specific day registration interface, said processor executes power-saving control in accordance with said power-saving pattern identified by said pattern name corresponding to said specific day.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.62712
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14571042', '16019121', '15783504', '10926227', '13490651']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.509684259106601
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5736741391972923
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5160832471156701
- Mean Citation Score: 348.382482
- Max Citation Score: 438.78302
- Similarity Product: 431.7004413361645

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