PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15983870
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["358", "001130"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming section and a controller. The image forming section forms an image on a first sheet or a second sheet. The controller controls the image forming section. The first sheet is a blank sheet. The second sheet is a reused sheet. The controller refers to reference images each belonging to any of a plurality of categories to determine whether or not the image belongs to any of the categories. The controller directs the image forming section to form the image on the second sheet when determining that the image does not belong to any of the categories. The controller directs the image forming section to form the image on the first sheet and stores the image as a reference image when determining that the image belongs to any of the categories.

Claim (Index 5):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein\n the controller\n informs a user whether the image is to be formed on the first sheet or the second sheet when input information inputted according to an operation of the user includes an instruction to form the image on the first sheet and the image is determined not to belong to any of the categories, and \n stores the image as a reference image to increase a number of the categories when forming the image on the first sheet.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.17391
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15962386', '14708092', '11957532', '14693146', '12944148']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5138955803955583
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4821162692255101
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5107176492785535
- Mean Citation Score: 159.45582199999996
- Max Citation Score: 171.71243
- Similarity Product: 123.2398336018312

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

Dataset: test