PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15905931
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["358", "001160"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes: a hardware processor that: generates image data for composition; and divides the image data for composition into bands; an output memory; a storage that determines whether image data of each band coincides with image data of another band, secures a unique region, transfers the image data of the band to the unique region and associates the band with the unique region, secures common regions, transfers the image data of one of the bands to the common region and associates any one of the common regions to each of the bands; a reader that reads the image data from the region associated with each band and outputs the image data for composition; a composer that composes the image data for composition with the image data to be printed; and an image former that forms an image based on the composed image data.

Claim (Index 9):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 7 , wherein\n in a case where the hardware processor divides the image data for composition into bands by dividing the image pattern into a plurality of sub-patterns whose number is less than that of the DMA channels, the storage secures M (M is minimum value at which the number of sub-patterns included in single image pattern\u00d7M is equal to or more than the number of DMA channels) common region corresponding to the respective sub-patterns included in the single image pattern, stores the image data of the sub-pattern corresponding to the common region in each common region, sequentially and cyclically allocates the M common regions corresponding to the sub-patterns to the respective sub-patterns, and associates each band obtained by dividing the image data for composition with a common region where image data of the band is stored.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 25.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.74138
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['09509753', '09215555', '14715991', '15719945', '13015631']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5188730445746748
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4880859807545292
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5157943381926602
- Mean Citation Score: 169.90071800000004
- Max Citation Score: 178.99178
- Similarity Product: 123.57061266397

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