PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16257202
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-01
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["358", "518000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus that is capable of improving a specified-color removal process. An obtaining unit obtains color image data. A color specification unit specifies removal color. A specified-color removal unit removes color that is determined to be removed according to determination based on a brightness threshold and a first saturation threshold about the removal color from the color image data obtained.

Claim (Index 3):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein when the color specification unit specifies achromatic black as the removal color, the specified-color removal unit removes the achromatic black that is specified as the removal color and is less than the first saturation threshold and chromatic color that is less than the brightness threshold.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.65
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15396935', '15874045', '16040161', '14663589', '12917166']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5207111751649456
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5010372405748577
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5187437817059368
- Mean Citation Score: 178.22335600000005
- Max Citation Score: 194.68533
- Similarity Product: 121.75083397881028

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test