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 1):
An image forming apparatus comprising:\n image former that forms an image on a sheet; a sheet storage that stores the sheet; a sheet feeder that feeds the sheet stored in the sheet storage to the image former; a sheet characteristic detector that detects characteristics of the sheet fed by the sheet feeder; and a hardware processor that controls 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.

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): 0.4645347720468998
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4932717890528378
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4674084737474936
- Mean Citation Score: 210.03409399999995
- Max Citation Score: 224.4612
- Similarity Product: 176.4097557764053

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

Dataset: test