PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16037336
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["358", "003060"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus, includes: a conversion unit configured to convert image data based on a conversion condition corresponding to a halftone process type; an image processing unit configured to perform a halftone process to the image data; and a controller configured to control an image forming unit to form a predetermined measurement image on an image carrier, to control the measurement unit to measure the predetermined measurement image, and to generate a predetermined conversion condition corresponding to a predetermined halftone process type based on a measurement result. In a case where the predetermined halftone process type is not performed by the image processing unit from when the predetermined measurement image is formed last time, the controller skips formation of the predetermined measurement image by the image forming unit.

Claim (Index 3):
An image forming apparatus, comprising:\n an image processor configured to perform image processing to image data, and output the image data, the image processing including a halftone process and a tone correction process corresponding to a halftone process type; an image forming unit configured to form an image on an image carrier based on the image data outputted by the image processor; a transfer member at which the image is transferred from the image carrier to a sheet; a sensor configured to measure an measurement image on the image carrier; and a controller configured to control the image forming unit to form a first measurement image on the image carrier every time a plurality of images are formed by the image forming unit, control the sensor to measure the first measurement image, and generate a first conversion condition corresponding to a first halftone process type based on a measurement result of the first measurement image, wherein, in a case where the first halftone process type is not performed by the image processor from when the plurality of images are formed last time, the controller controls the image forming unit to form a second measurement image without forming the first measurement image, controls the sensor to measure the second measurement image, and generates a second conversion condition corresponding to a second halftone process type different from the first halftone process type based on a measurement result of the second measurement image.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.65385
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15990345', '15643604', '15001466', '15934170', '15219817']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5175433643253634
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.484122090767157
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5142012369695428
- Mean Citation Score: 223.610656
- Max Citation Score: 229.48291
- Similarity Product: 187.9225266355377

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