PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15939679
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["358", "001150"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a determination processing portion and a special operation sound generating portion. The determination processing portion determines whether or not image data received from an external apparatus is confidential data. When the determination processing portion determines that the image data received from the external apparatus is the confidential data, the special operation sound generating portion executes a process of generating a special operation sound that is different from an operation sound that occurs when the image data is other than the confidential data.

Claim (Index 4):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 , further comprising:\n an image carrier; a motor configured to rotationally drive the image carrier; a charging portion configured to charge an outer circumferential surface of the image carrier; a developing portion configured to form a toner image on the image carrier; and a toner replenishing portion configured to replenish toner to the developing portion, wherein the special operation sound includes any of\n a toner pre-supply sound that is generated when the toner replenishing portion supplies the toner to the developing portion during a first period which is from a predetermined first standard time point to when the charging portion starts to charge the image carrier, \n an irregular motor sound that is generated when the motor is caused to rotate the image carrier irregularly during a second period which is from a predetermined second standard time point to when the charging portion starts to charge the image carrier, \n a continuous motor sound that is generated when a rotation of the image carrier made by the motor is continued during a third period which is from a time point when an image forming operation of forming an image based on image data is completed, to a predetermined third standard time point, and \n a high-speed motor sound that is generated when, during a fourth period or a fifth period, a rotation speed of the motor is made higher than during the image forming operation, the fourth period being from a predetermined fourth standard time point to when the charging portion starts to charge the image carrier, the fifth period being from when the image forming operation is completed, to a predetermined fifth standard time point.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.33333
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15240945', '11169670', '12118842', '15239650', '14250967']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4760587423498335
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4619621082639855
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4746490789412487
- Mean Citation Score: 132.244264
- Max Citation Score: 140.73032
- Similarity Product: 108.36875228586194

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