PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16293806
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-03
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["358", "540000"]

Abstract:
An image reading apparatus includes a first sensor that reads a first area of an image, a second sensor that reads a second area, and a processing circuit that generates a merge image by performing a merge process on first image data acquired by reading by the first sensor and second image data acquired by reading by the second sensor. The processing circuit calculates a correction value having a tendency of approaching zero as being away from an overlap area between the first area and the second area based on a reading result acquired by reading the overlap area by the first sensor and a reading result acquired by reading by the second sensor, and generates the merge image by performing an offset process using the correction value.

Claim (Index 5):
The image reading apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein\n an X 1  axis is set for the first image data in a direction corresponding to a main scanning axis of the image reading apparatus, for two end points of an area of the first image data on which the offset process is performed, an X 1  coordinate value of an end point on an overlap area side is set to Xmerge, and an X 1  coordinate value of an end point on another side is set to zero, and\n D\u2032 1 ( x 1 )= D 1 ( x 1 )+ A\u00d7x 1 , wherein \n A is a coefficient obtained based on an average value of pixel values acquired by reading the overlap area by the first sensor, an average value of pixel values acquired by reading the overlap area by the second sensor, and Xmerge that is a length of an area of the first image data on which the offset process is performed, and at x 1  at which the X 1  coordinate value satisfies 0\u2264x 1 \u2264Xmerge, D 1 (x 1 ) is a pixel value of the first image data and D\u2032 1 (x 1 ) is a pixel value of the first image data after the offset process.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.8913
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16293785', '14219267', '12023539', '15644892', '14469731']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5226337212516083
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5268050976384342
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5230508588902909
- Mean Citation Score: 203.040064
- Max Citation Score: 330.65063
- Similarity Product: 239.4497004925251

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

Dataset: test