PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15941979
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["347", "179000"]

Abstract:
A decoloring apparatus includes a reading unit that reads an image formed on a sheet and outputs image information corresponding to the read image. A control unit is configured to recognize the image information output by the reading unit and determine whether decoloring using the decoloring unit is performed on the sheet based on the recognized image information.

Claim (Index 32):
The method according to  claim 31 , wherein the decoloring rate is a ratio of an area of the surface on which a coloring agent is not developed to a total area of the surface.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 53.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.76471
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15605434', '14749451', '14293723', '13198597', '14482554']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7263773466569935
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5218140860387138
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7059210205951656
- Mean Citation Score: 207.46407
- Max Citation Score: 242.79643
- Similarity Product: 126.70788762829184

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

Dataset: test