PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15949923
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["358", "003260"]

Abstract:
An image reading apparatus, including: a conveyance unit configured to convey a document along a conveyance path; a transparent plate provided to the conveyance path; a reading unit configured to read an image of the document passing the transparent plate; a detector configured to detect a foreign substance on the transparent plate from image data output from the reading unit; a light source provided to one end side face of the transparent plate; and a controller configured to control lighting-up of the light source based on a detection result of the detector.

Claim (Index 8):
A control method for an image reading apparatus, the image reading apparatus comprising: a conveyance unit configured to convey a document along a conveyance path; a transparent plate provided to the conveyance path; a reading unit configured to read an image of the document passing the transparent plate; and a light source provided to one end side face of the transparent plate, the control method, comprising:\n detecting a foreign substance on the transparent plate from image data output from the reading unit; and controlling the light source to light up based on a detection result by the detecting.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.12766
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12981843', '12630753', '14106586', '12831977', '14154254']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4945766653081383
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4735676311632957
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.492475761893654
- Mean Citation Score: 177.098054
- Max Citation Score: 189.10222
- Similarity Product: 150.34987260035754

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