PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16161131
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["358", "488000"]

Abstract:
An image scanner includes a document detector configured to, each time line scanning is repeated a predetermined number of times, perform an edge detecting process to detect a position of a lateral side extending in a sub scanning direction from a non-reference corner of a sheet, in the edge detecting process performed for a first time, set a position of the non-reference corner in a main scanning direction as a detection reference position, in the edge detecting process performed for a second or later time, set a previously-detected position of the lateral side in the main scanning direction as the detection reference position, and in each edge detecting process, set a detection range in the main scanning direction on the basis of the detection reference position, and detect a specific pixel corresponding to the lateral side in the main scanning direction within the detection range in the main scanning direction.

Claim (Index 2):
The image scanner according to  claim 1 ,\n wherein the document detector is further configured to:\n perform the edge detecting process each time the image sensor moves over a predetermined length in the sub scanning direction while repeatedly performing the line scanning the predetermined number of times; and \n in each edge detecting process, detect the position of the lateral side of the sheet, by detecting a group of pixels consecutive in the sub scanning direction and corresponding to the lateral side within a second detection range in the sub scanning direction, the second detection range corresponding to the predetermined length in the sub scanning direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.71186
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15872235', '15910207', '15925934', '15872231', '10359238']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5037511218008871
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5207717625321253
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5054531858740109
- Mean Citation Score: 246.341856
- Max Citation Score: 289.49048
- Similarity Product: 211.30238051548

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

Dataset: test