PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16186002
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["399", "038000"]

Abstract:
There is disclosed an image post-processing method for adjusting glossiness of a fixed toner image. The image post-processing method includes a glossiness control step of, with a non-contact heating device, heating a toner image fixed to a recording medium so as to reduce glossiness of the toner image. The non-contact heating device is configured to heat the toner image fixed to the recording medium to a temperature which reduces the glossiness of the fixed toner image.

Claim (Index 2):
The image post-processing method according to  claim 1 , wherein\n the non-contact heating device is further configured to heat the toner image fixed to the recording medium to a temperature which increases the glossiness of the toner image, and the glossiness control step includes a step of, with the non-contact heating device, heating the toner image fixed to the recording medium so as to reduce or increase the glossiness of the toner image.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 12.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.25
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11610083', '13281858', '10667490', '16028118', '13763142']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8317408493553092
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.478772116900251
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7964439761098034
- Mean Citation Score: 231.736574
- Max Citation Score: 244.81143
- Similarity Product: 200.82377311865687

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