PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16221479
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-12
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["358", "474000"]

Abstract:
Provided is an image forming apparatus that suppresses degradation of performance of processing up to completion of printing while suppressing the occurrence of moire. A data-compression unit stores identification data indicating the presence or absence of periodicity obtained by analyzing printing data, and printing data correlated with the identification data in a first memory area of a RAM. A color-conversion-processing unit that performs a speculative process, causes printing data that has undergone a color conversion process corresponding to printer printing to be stored in a second memory area of a RAM. A screen-processing unit that performs a speculative process, performs an AM screen process on printing data. In addition, a system-control unit causes the image-forming unit to move from a printing pre-start position to a printing start position based on a determination result of a printing color in a color conversion process corresponding to a first printer printing by the color-conversion-processing unit by a speculative process.

Claim (Index 1):
An image forming apparatus comprising:\n an image-processing unit that performs image processing on first printing data; a storage device for storing second printing data that has undergone image processing by the image-processing unit; a printer unit having an image-forming unit for performing printing based on second printing data stored in the storage device; and a system-control unit that controls moving between a printing pre-start position and a printing start position of the image-forming unit; wherein the image-processing unit has: a first data-processing unit that converts the first printing data into bitmap third printing data; a second data-processing unit that determines the presence or absence of periodicity of an image corresponding to the third printing data; a color-conversion-processing unit that, by a speculative process in parallel with processing by the second data processing unit, generates fourth printing data that has undergone a color conversion process corresponding to printer printing on the third printing data; a screen-processing unit that, by a speculative process in parallel with processing by the second data processing unit, performs an AM screen process on the fourth printing data; and a data-output unit for outputting the printing data screen-processed by the screen-processing unit to the printer unit as the second printing data; the screen-processing unit, in the case where it is determined by the second data-processing unit that the third printing data has periodicity, instructs the color-conversion-processing unit to perform a color conversion process corresponding to copy printing on the third printing data, and performs a FM screen process on printing data on which the color conversion process corresponding to the copy printing has been performed; the color-conversion-processing unit determines a printing color based on the fourth printing data; and the system-control unit causes the image-forming unit corresponding to the printing color to move from the printing pre-start position to the printing start position based on a determination result of the printing color in the color conversion process corresponding to printer printing by the color-conversion-processing unit, and does not perform control of movement based on the determination result of the printing color in a re-color conversion process corresponding to the copy printing by the color-conversion-processing unit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.17105
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12630297', '10942904', '11447861', '13304755', '16024947']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5022399371923255
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4898047701957667
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5009964204926697
- Mean Citation Score: 193.472606
- Max Citation Score: 205.00699
- Similarity Product: 145.3855980492455

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

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