PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16121927
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["358", "498000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes: image former forming an image on a sheet; a sheet storage storing the sheet; a sheet feeder feeding the sheet stored in the sheet storage to the image former; a sheet characteristic detector detecting characteristics of the sheet fed by the sheet feeder; and a hardware processor controlling image forming in the image former on the basis of the sheet characteristics detected by the sheet characteristic detector, wherein the sheet feeder feeds a first sheet in order to detect the sheet characteristics by the sheet characteristic detector before forming an image by the image former, and after the sheet characteristic detector has finished detecting the characteristics of the first sheet, the sheet feeder feeds a second sheet on which the image is to be formed by the image former under image forming conditions set on the basis of the detected characteristics of the first sheet.

Claim (Index 12):
An image forming method comprising:\n forming an image on a sheet by an image former included in an image forming apparatus; feeding a sheet stored in a sheet storage to the image former by a sheet feeder included in the image forming apparatus; detecting, by a sheet characteristic detector included in the image forming apparatus, characteristics of the sheet fed by the sheet feeder; controlling the forming of an image in the image former by a hardware processor included in the image forming apparatus on the basis of the sheet characteristics detected by the sheet characteristic detector; and feeding, by the sheet feeder, a first sheet in order to detect the sheet characteristics by the sheet characteristic detector before the forming of an image by the image former, and feeding a second sheet on which an image is to be formed by the image former under image forming conditions set on the basis of the detected characteristics of the first sheet after the detecting of the characteristics of the first sheet has been finished by the sheet characteristic detector.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.05769
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15682110', '14964064', '10830012', '15180475', '15623280']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4644947916744356
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4934398460457281
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4673892971115648
- Mean Citation Score: 210.03409399999995
- Max Citation Score: 224.4612
- Similarity Product: 176.08029962289334

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

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