PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15986431
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["347", "016000"]

Abstract:
Scan printing systems and methods for reducing banding artefacts of an image printed on a substrate, including a substrate feeder assembly, a printhead adapted to print an encoder pattern on the substrate, a sensor, and a controller. The controller performs a feedback cycle of positioning the substrate relative to the printhead and instructs the printhead to print a band of the image when the encoder pattern has reached a target position. The controller repeats the feedback cycle of positioning the substrate relative to the printhead and instructs the printhead to print a subsequent band of the image until the entire image is printed on the substrate.

Claim (Index 1):
A scan printing system for reducing banding artefacts of an image printed on a substrate, the scan printing system comprising:\n a substrate feeder assembly adapted to move the substrate along a substrate moving path; a printing assembly configured to receive image data and including a printhead adapted to print an encoder pattern and a band of the image on the substrate; a sensor configured to detect the encoder pattern on the substrate; and a controller coupled to the substrate feeder assembly, the printhead, and the sensor, and the controller configured to receive position data of the encoder pattern from the sensor and determine a target position for the substrate along the substrate moving path; wherein the controller initiates printing of the image by instructing the printhead to print an encoder pattern and a band of the image on the substrate; wherein the controller performs a feedback cycle for positioning the substrate relative to the printhead, the feedback cycle including\n calculating a projected moving distance for the encoder pattern to move along the substrate moving path to reach the target position, \n directing the substrate feeder assembly to move the substrate over the projected moving distance, \n receiving new position data of the encoder pattern from the sensor, \n determining whether the encoder pattern has reached the target position based on the new position data, and \n repeating the feedback cycle until the encoder pattern reaches the target position; \n wherein the controller instructs the printhead to print another encoder pattern and another band of the image when the encoder pattern has reached the target position; wherein the controller repeats the feedback cycle of positioning the substrate relative to the printhead until the another encoder pattern reaches a subsequent target position; and wherein the controller continues with instructing the printhead to print another encoder pattern and another band on the substrate and repeating the feedback cycle for positioning the substrate relative to the printhead until the desired image is printed on the substrate.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.35417
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12193843', '11124157', '12307547', '12780645', '12251858']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7507129912918532
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4914903553227315
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.724790727694941
- Mean Citation Score: 214.706434
- Max Citation Score: 220.38379
- Similarity Product: 148.0032344699371

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

Dataset: test