PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15938523
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["358", "001600"]

Abstract:
In an image processing apparatus, a controller sequentially selects a plurality color determination pixels within a determination area, determine whether the color determination pixel has a chromatic color, whether a first pixel adjacent to the color determination pixel is black, and determine whether a second pixel apart from the color determination pixel by one pixel. The controller determines that a first trapping process is to be executed when the color determination pixel has a chromatic color and the first pixel is black, and a second trapping process when the color determination pixel has a chromatic color, the second pixel is black, and the intermediate pixels located between the color determination pixel and the second pixel are black. Thereafter, the controller executes a first trapping process and a second trapping process, but restricts the second trapping process to the pixel on which the first trapping process is to be executed.

Claim (Index 15):
A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing instructions to control an image processing apparatus having a storage configured to store image data and a controller,\n wherein the instructions cause, when executed by the controller, the image processing apparatus to execute: receiving image data configured such that a plurality of pixel arrays each including a plurality of pixels are arranged in a main scanning direction, the plurality of pixel arrays being aligned in a sub scanning direction which is perpendicular to the main scanning direction: setting a determination area having a particular number of pixels within a particular area of three lines or more in the sub scanning direction and three pixels or more in the main scanning direction; sequentially selecting a plurality of pixels within the determination area as color determination pixels; determining whether the color determination pixel as selected has a chromatic color; determining whether a first pixel adjacent to the color determination pixel is black; determining whether a second pixel apart from the color determination pixel with one or more intermediate pixel therebetween is black; determining that a first trapping process to add a color component of the color determination pixel to the first pixel is to be executed when the controller determines that the color determination pixel has a chromatic color and the first pixel is black; determining that a second trapping process to add the color component of the color determination pixel to the second pixel is to be executed when it is determined that the color determination pixel has a chromatic color, the second pixel is black, and the intermediate pixels located between the color determination pixel and the second pixel are black; executing the first trapping process on a pixel on which the first trapping process is determined to be executed; executing the second trapping process on a pixel on which the second trapping process is determined to be executed; and restricting execution of the second trapping process on the pixel on which the first trapping process is determined to be executed, wherein a position of the second pixel within the determination area varies depending on the color determination pixel.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.09615
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12756778', '11948682', '14325143', '12862284', '11379690']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5383449991587168
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5009425801728481
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5346047572601299
- Mean Citation Score: 213.890358
- Max Citation Score: 232.083
- Similarity Product: 161.3626718299985

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