PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15938523
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["358", "001600"]

Abstract:
In an image processing apparatus, a controller sequentially selects a plurality color determination pixels within a determination area, determine whether the color determination pixel has a chromatic color, whether a first pixel adjacent to the color determination pixel is black, and determine whether a second pixel apart from the color determination pixel by one pixel. The controller determines that a first trapping process is to be executed when the color determination pixel has a chromatic color and the first pixel is black, and a second trapping process when the color determination pixel has a chromatic color, the second pixel is black, and the intermediate pixels located between the color determination pixel and the second pixel are black. Thereafter, the controller executes a first trapping process and a second trapping process, but restricts the second trapping process to the pixel on which the first trapping process is to be executed.

Claim (Index 3):
The image processing apparatus according to  claim 1 ,\n wherein the determination area is an area including four or more lines in the sub scanning direction and four or more pixels in the main scanning direction, wherein the determining black pixels includes:\n determining whether a first pixel adjacent to the color determination pixel is a black pixel; \n determining whether a second pixel apart from the color determination pixel with one intermediate pixel located therebetween is a black pixel; and \n determining whether a third pixel apart from the color determination pixel with two intermediate pixels therebetween is a black pixel; \n wherein the determining execution of trapping processes further includes:\n determining that a third trapping process to add the color component of the color determination pixel is to be executed on the third pixel when the color determination pixel is determined to have the chromatic color, the third pixel is determined to be a black pixel and the two intermediate pixels located between the color determination pixel and the third pixel are black pixels; \n wherein the execution of trapping processes further includes:\n executing the third trapping process with respect on the pixel on which the third trapping process is determined to be executed; and \n wherein the restricting execution of the trapping processes further restricts execution of the third trapping process on the pixel on which the first trapping process is determined to be executed and the pixel on which the second trapping process is to be executed.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.09615
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12756778', '11948682', '14325143', '12862284', '11379690']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5375849575784415
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5042081130797014
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5342472731285675
- Mean Citation Score: 213.890358
- Max Citation Score: 232.083
- Similarity Product: 154.38599558132887

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

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