PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15939773
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["358", "001900"]

Abstract:
A reading apparatus that performs colorimetry for an image on a sheet, includes a conveyor that conveys the sheet along a conveyance path; a first guide member that includes a reference surface arranged to face the conveyance path and to oppose the sheet and provided with an opening, and, guides the sheet; a first opposite member that urges the sheet toward the reference surface, and, brings the sheet in contact with the reference surface; a colorimetry unit that is disposed at a side opposite to the conveyance path so as to sandwich the first guide member, and, performs colorimetry for the image through the opening; and a processor that controls the conveyor and the first opposite member so as to convey the sheet in a state of being brought in contact with the reference surface, before the colorimetry unit performs colorimetry for the image.

Claim (Index 6):
The reading apparatus of  claim 1 , wherein an urging force toward the reference surface of the first guide member by the first opposite member is changed in accordance with sheet information of the sheet being conveyed.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.66102
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15920660', '15169366', '14626495', '14664476', '15054288']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4810434141869099
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5282113690526942
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4857602096734884
- Mean Citation Score: 213.153758
- Max Citation Score: 297.1838
- Similarity Product: 193.85083174543385

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

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