PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15933250
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["347", "195000"]

Abstract:
A printer includes a processor and a thermal head having a plurality of heating elements to print an image having a plurality of print lines on a printing medium on the basis of printing data, wherein in an initial control period, for any printing data, the processor causes the thermal head to perform a division printing for each of the print lines that are to be printed in the control period, the division printing being such that for each print line to be printed, the plurality of heating elements are divided into a plurality of subgroups and the respective subgroups of the heating elements are activated in a time-divided manner, and wherein in a normal period after the control period, the processor causes the thermal head performs a non-division printing for at least some of the print lines that are to be printed in the normal period.

Claim (Index 6):
The printer according to  claim 1 , wherein the control period is a period of printing a prescribed number of print lines after the thermal head starts printing.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.67241
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13029679', '15472122', '13626005', '15694570', '15846933']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.782980137935809
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4885681308932992
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.753538937231558
- Mean Citation Score: 231.886486
- Max Citation Score: 235.63693
- Similarity Product: 176.96014316866757

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

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