PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16125239
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["358", "001130"]

Abstract:
The image forming apparatus includes an image reading section and a control section. The image reading section reads a document placed on a contact glass to generate image data. The control section decides whether or not the document is present at a specified position of the contact glass and, upon deciding that the document is present at the specified position, erases handwritten images from the image data of the document read by the image reading section.

Claim (Index 5):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 4 , wherein\n before reading of the document by the image reading section, the control section instructs the image reading section to execute a prescan process of reading an area of the contact glass on the one end side of the sub scanning direction and, based on image data obtained by the prescan process, the control section decides whether or not the document is present at the normal alignment position, where upon deciding that the document is present at the specified position and moreover deciding that the document is absent at the normal alignment position, the control section executes the handwritten-image erasing process.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.92857
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16020512', '13023655', '14250967', '15991735', '14067782']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5165515351105696
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4808531529590372
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5129816968954164
- Mean Citation Score: 164.021524
- Max Citation Score: 166.45674
- Similarity Product: 119.14785719925642

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

Dataset: test