PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15925856
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["347", "103000"]

Abstract:
There is provided a printing apparatus having a transfer member that moves to cyclically pass through a formation area of an ink image and a transfer area where the ink image is transferred to a cut sheet, and a supply that supplies the cut sheet to the transfer member continuously. The printing apparatus controls, when continuously printing on a plurality of cut sheets of the same size, stops the supply of the cut sheet based on a time taken to process image data representing an image of a print target, does not form the ink image in a partial area on the transfer member that passes through the transfer area at a timing when the supply of the cut sheet is stopped, and forms the ink image in a remaining area, while continuing the movement of the transfer member.

Claim (Index 11):
A control method for a system for forming a printed product using a transfer member configured to move to cyclically pass through a formation area of an ink image and a transfer area where the ink image is transferred to a cut sheet, a supply unit configured to supply the cut sheet to the transfer member continuously, a data acquisition unit configured to acquire print data for forming the ink image on the transfer member, that is obtained when an image processing unit processes data representing an image of a print target, a print unit configured to discharge ink to the transfer member based on the print data and form the ink image on the transfer member in the formation area of the ink image, and a transfer unit configured to transfer the ink image from the transfer member to the cut sheet supplied by the supply unit in the transfer area, wherein the transfer member is provided so as to be capable of holding images of a plurality of cut sheets in a direction in which the transfer member passes through the formation area of the ink image, the method comprising:\n controlling, when continuously printing on the plurality of cut sheets of the same size, the print unit and the supply unit so as to stop the supply of the cut sheet by the supply unit based on information concerning a time taken to process image data representing the image of the print target by the image processing unit, not to form the ink image in a partial area on the transfer member, that passes through the transfer area at a timing when the supply of the cut sheet to the transfer area is stopped, and to form the ink image in a remaining area, while continuing the movement of the transfer member.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 4.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.33333
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15920838', '15920479', '15906296', '15906156', '15910444']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7124441966245424
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4824919711433942
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6894489740764276
- Mean Citation Score: 211.54793
- Max Citation Score: 228.28392
- Similarity Product: 190.6915654327869

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

Dataset: test