PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16007066
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["399", "004000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus, for performing image forming by transferring and fixing an image formed on an image carrier to a printing material, that selects a smallest dot size of a halftone dot pattern representing a halftone of a highlight region corresponding to a type of the printing material, and uses a screen representing the selected smallest dot size to perform exposure control of the image carrier.

Claim (Index 6):
The method according to  claim 5 ,\n further comprising registering the smallest dot size of the halftone dot pattern representing the halftone of a highlight region and corresponding to the type of the printing material, wherein the smallest dot size of a halftone dot pattern representing the halftone of the highlight region and corresponding to a color of a toner to be used in image formation and the type of the printing material is also registered, and the smallest dot size corresponding to the color of the toner to be used in image formation and the type of the obtained printing material is selected with reference to contents registered in the registering, and a screen of the selected smallest dot size is used to perform the exposure control of the image carrier.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 6.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.775
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15001466', '11589133', '13304755', '11358061', '12487417']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8064198923144644
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4869226634155099
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.774470169424569
- Mean Citation Score: 208.983418
- Max Citation Score: 212.66034
- Similarity Product: 136.7572937311399

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