PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15990902
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["358", "001130"]

Abstract:
An operation console used in relation to an apparatus as an object of control operated by a user operation includes: a display device having a display area for displaying information to the user; an input device for the user to input a request; and a display control device displaying, if a request for displaying specific information on said display device is input through the input device, the specific information on the display device. The input device includes a plurality of operation buttons for inputting a plurality of requests, corresponding to respective requests, arranged in the vicinity of the display area. Among the plurality of operation buttons, an operation button corresponding to the request for displaying the specific information is provided closest to the display device.

Claim (Index 1):
An image processing apparatus, comprising:\n a display device having a display area for displaying information to a user; an input device for the user to input a request; and a display control device displaying, if a request for displaying specific information on said display device is input through said input device, said specific information on said display area; wherein said input device includes a plurality of hardware operation buttons for inputting a plurality of respective requests, arranged in an area adjacent to said display device; said specific information is mode selection information allowing selection of one operational mode from among two or more modes related to image formation; the shape of said display area is a rectangle; one hardware mode operation button from among the plurality of hardware operation buttons for inputting the request for displaying said specific information is provided on a first area adjacent to one side of said rectangle; and the hardware operation button or buttons including the one hardware mode operation button provided on said first area are smaller in number than the hardware operation buttons provided on a second area adjacent to a side of said rectangle other than said one side.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.61538
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15672601', '15292460', '13022728', '14685939', '13022712']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5453888207231156
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5092830425015007
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5417782429009541
- Mean Citation Score: 289.078742
- Max Citation Score: 297.38068
- Similarity Product: 253.88774237357853

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