PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15860342
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["358", "003240"]

Abstract:
According to an embodiment, a detection apparatus for detecting a decoloration ink image includes an image reading unit, a decoloration unit, and a controller. The controller acquires image data using the image reading unit before decoloration that is the image data on the sheet before decoloration processing is executed by the decoloration unit. In addition, the controller determines whether or not there is a difference between the image data to be decolored and the decolored image data, thereby determining whether or not the decoloration ink is used in the sheet.

Claim (Index 24):
A method of detecting a decolorable ink image printed with decolorable ink, comprising:\n transferring a sheet to an image reading unit; generating first image data of a sheet before performing a decoloration processing; after the first image data is generated, performing the decoloration processing on the sheet so that a decolorable image formed with decolorable ink on the sheet is partially decolored forming a mixed pattern of decolored sections of the decolorable image and non-decolored sections of the decolorable image; returning the sheet on which the image is decolored to the image reading unit; generating second image data of the sheet after performing the decoloration processing; determining a difference between the first image data and the second image data; and determining whether or not the decolorable ink is used on the sheet based on the determined difference between the first image data and the second image data.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 38.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.08511
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14829881', '11043195', '11729418', '13797592', '12767535']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5000472677650806
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5671746443656598
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5067600054251385
- Mean Citation Score: 224.460268
- Max Citation Score: 438.36407
- Similarity Product: 394.7952348721892

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