PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15974745
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["399", "301000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes: a controller configured to: control first and second image forming units to form a plurality of groups of detection images, the plurality of groups of detection images being scaled based on a scaling factor, determine a plurality of detection start timings that respectively correspond to the plurality of groups based on the scaling factor, control a detection unit to detect the plurality of groups based on the determined detection start timings, and control the detected misregistration of a first image to be formed by the first image forming unit and a second image to be formed by the second image forming unit.

Claim (Index 11):
An image forming apparatus, comprising:\n a conveyance unit configured to convey a sheet; a setting unit configured to set a scaling factor in a conveyance direction of the sheet; a first image forming unit configured to form, on an intermediate transfer member, a first image of a first color, the first image being scaled based on the scaling factor; a second image forming unit configured to form, on the intermediate transfer member, a second image of a second color different from the first color, the second image being scaled based on the scaling factor; a transfer portion at which the first image and the second image are transferred from the intermediate transfer member to the sheet; a detection unit configured to detect a group of detection images formed on the intermediate transfer member, the group of detection images including a first detection image of the first color and a second detection image of the second color and being used to detect color misregistration; and a controller configured to:\n determine, based on the scaling factor, an interval between a group of detection images and another group of detection images that is to be formed so as to neighbor the group of detection images, \n control the first image forming unit and the second image forming unit to form a plurality of groups of detection images based on the determined interval, the plurality of groups of detection images being scaled based on the scaling factor, \n control the detection unit to detect the plurality of groups, and \n control the detected color misregistration of a first image to be formed by the first image forming unit and a second image to be formed by the second image forming unit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 24.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.59091
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15801033', '15420543', '15584478', '10245648', '11745649']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8247984756000845
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4986768013487467
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7921863081749506
- Mean Citation Score: 276.34949
- Max Citation Score: 295.89047
- Similarity Product: 221.7025820357692

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

Dataset: test