PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15760481
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["347", "010000"]

Abstract:
An inkjet recording device includes a hardware processor. The hardware processor: performs, for respective recording heads of a recorder, setting relevant to adjustment of an amount of ink to be discharged from nozzle groups; based on ink discharge amount information on a distribution of ink discharge amounts that are discharged from the nozzle groups based on image data, performs the setting such that at each joint in the nozzle groups, a difference between representative values of the ink discharge amounts of the nozzle groups satisfies a predetermined continuity condition, and a representative value of the ink discharge amounts of the nozzle groups satisfies a predetermined discharge amount condition; and adjusts at least a part of the setting such that a difference between a maximum value and a minimum value of the ink discharge amounts of the nozzle groups reduces.

Claim (Index 11):
An ink-discharge adjustment method for an inkjet recording device including a recorder that discharges an ink to a recording medium from nozzles disposed in each of recording heads, comprising:\n a setting step of performing, for the respective recording heads, setting relevant to adjustment of an amount of the ink to be discharged from nozzle groups each constituted of at least a part of the nozzles, which are disposed in each of the recording heads, wherein the recording heads are disposed such that arrangement regions of the nozzle groups in a predetermined direction, the nozzle groups corresponding to the respective recording heads, include regions different from one another, and ink dischargeable regions are connected to one another to be continuous in the predetermined direction, and the setting step includes:\n a first adjustment step of, based on ink discharge amount information on a distribution in the predetermined direction of ink discharge amounts that are discharged from the nozzle groups based on image data having a predetermined density, performing the setting for the respective recording heads such that at each joint of joints in the nozzle groups in the predetermined direction, a difference between representative values of the ink discharge amounts satisfies a predetermined continuity condition, each joint being formed by a pair of the nozzle groups, and a representative value of the ink discharge amounts of all the nozzle groups satisfies a predetermined discharge amount condition for the predetermined density; and \n after the first adjustment step, a second adjustment step of adjusting at least a part of the setting, which has been performed for the respective recording heads, such that a difference between a maximum value and a minimum value of the ink discharge amounts of the nozzle groups reduces.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.36508
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14748041', '11223698', '10932021', '14525918', '11067358']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.775609663924492
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4813260352213487
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7461813010541778
- Mean Citation Score: 246.762628
- Max Citation Score: 251.95987
- Similarity Product: 216.09411384501217

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