PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15872231
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["358", "475000"]

Abstract:
An image scanning apparatus includes a controller configured to perform a setting process to set a specific waiting time for a timer, based on a detected position of a document guide. The setting process includes, when the detected position of the document guide is a particular guide position for a first-size document sheet, setting a first waiting time as the specific waiting time for the timer, and when the detected position of the document guide is not the particular guide position, setting a second waiting time as the specific waiting time for the timer, the second waiting time being longer than the first waiting time.

Claim (Index 1):
An image scanning apparatus comprising:\n a document tray configured to support one or more document sheets placed thereon; a conveyor configured to convey the one or more document sheets placed on the document tray, in a conveyance direction in a manner separated on a sheet-by-sheet basis; a document guide movable along a main scanning direction perpendicular to the conveyance direction, the document guide being configured to guide side ends of each of the one or more document sheets placed on the document tray; a position detector configured to detect a position of the document guide; a first document detector configured to detect whether there is a document sheet placed on the document tray; a timer configured to count to a waiting time set for the timer; an image scanner configured to perform image scanning of the one or more document sheets being conveyed by the conveyor; and a controller configured to:\n in response to the first document detector detecting a document sheet placed on the document tray, determine whether the detected position of the document guide is a first guide position for guiding a first-size document sheet of a first particular size; \n perform a setting process to set a specific waiting time for the timer, based on the detected position of the document guide, the setting process comprising:\n when determining that the detected position of the document guide is the first guide position, setting a first waiting time as the specific waiting time for the timer; and \n when determining that the detected position of the document guide is not the first guide position, setting a second waiting time as the specific waiting time for the timer, the second waiting time being longer than the first waiting time; and \n \n in response to the timer counting to the specific waiting time since the detection, by the first document detector, of the document sheet placed on the document tray, perform a scanning process to control the conveyor to convey the document sheet and control the image scanner to perform image scanning of the document sheet, thereby acquiring a scanned image of the document sheet.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.69048
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13241958', '12567004', '15473829', '12506676', '11357986']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5012086602301995
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4762773959536427
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4987155338025438
- Mean Citation Score: 182.975176
- Max Citation Score: 185.41942
- Similarity Product: 141.95421712175008

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