PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16099603
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["358", "001140"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus has a power supply portion, an operation panel, a document set portion, a plurality of sensing portions including a document set sensing portion that outputs a document set signal at a first level if the document is set, and control portions. The control portions, at transition to the power saving mode, stores flag data if the document set signal is at the first level, and when the level of any of the status signals from the plurality of sensing portions changes while in the power saving mode, even if the level of the document set signal is the first level, if the flag data is stored, the control portion maintains the electric power supply to the operation panel as the electric power supply expected in the power saving mode.

Claim (Index 1):
An image forming apparatus which has a normal mode and a power saving mode for suppressing electric power consumption compared to in the normal mode and which executes a job during the normal mode, the image forming apparatus comprising:\n a power supply portion for supplying electric power; an operation panel which, in the normal mode, displays a screen related to the job and accepts operation from a user and which, in the power saving mode, stops displaying the screen by being supplied from the power supply portion with suppressed electric power compared to in the normal mode; a document set portion on which a document is set if the job is a job involving document reading; a plurality of sensing portions which respectively output status signals that are signals with levels corresponding to status of the image forming apparatus, the sensing portions including a document set sensing portion which outputs, as the status signal, a document set signal whose signal level is a first level if the document is set on the document set portion and whose signal level is a second level if the document is not set on the document set portion; a control portion which controls the power supply portion and which senses the levels of the status signals; and a storing portion which stores data, wherein the control portion shifts the image forming apparatus to the power saving mode irrespective of the level of the document set signal when a shift condition prescribed as a condition for shifting the image forming apparatus to the power saving mode is met during a period of the normal mode, when shifting the image forming apparatus to the power saving mode, the control portion stores in the storing portion flag data indicating that the document is set on the document set portion if the level of the document set signal is the first level but does not store the flag data in the storing portion if the level of the document set signal is the second level, and when the level of any of the status signals from the plurality of sensing portions changes during a period of the power saving mode,\n if the level of the document set signal is the first level and the flag data is not stored in the storing portion, the control portion switches electric power supply from the power supply portion to the operation panel to the electric power supply expected in the normal mode and, \n even if the level of the document set signal is the first level, if the flag data is stored in the storing portion, the control portion maintains the electric power supply from the power supply portion to the operation panel as the electric power supply expected in the power saving mode.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.68519
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15363548', '13280655', '15695634', '13069519', '14279124']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5041955209689887
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4859378124915833
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5023697501212482
- Mean Citation Score: 200.53396
- Max Citation Score: 209.17995
- Similarity Product: 156.6915823215187

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