PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16161131
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["358", "488000"]

Abstract:
An image scanner includes a document detector configured to, each time line scanning is repeated a predetermined number of times, perform an edge detecting process to detect a position of a lateral side extending in a sub scanning direction from a non-reference corner of a sheet, in the edge detecting process performed for a first time, set a position of the non-reference corner in a main scanning direction as a detection reference position, in the edge detecting process performed for a second or later time, set a previously-detected position of the lateral side in the main scanning direction as the detection reference position, and in each edge detecting process, set a detection range in the main scanning direction on the basis of the detection reference position, and detect a specific pixel corresponding to the lateral side in the main scanning direction within the detection range in the main scanning direction.

Claim (Index 5):
The image scanner according to  claim 2 ,\n wherein the document detector is further configured to:\n when failing to detect the group of pixels consecutive in the sub scanning direction and corresponding to the lateral side, detect the position of the lateral side, based on a distribution of black pixels in a rectangular area defined by the first detection range in the main scanning direction and the second detection range in the sub scanning direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.71186
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15872235', '15910207', '15925934', '15872231', '10359238']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5030519737670622
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5248497190836401
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5052317482987201
- Mean Citation Score: 246.341856
- Max Citation Score: 289.49048
- Similarity Product: 192.8277179690075

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

Dataset: test