PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15905931
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["358", "001160"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes: a hardware processor that: generates image data for composition; and divides the image data for composition into bands; an output memory; a storage that determines whether image data of each band coincides with image data of another band, secures a unique region, transfers the image data of the band to the unique region and associates the band with the unique region, secures common regions, transfers the image data of one of the bands to the common region and associates any one of the common regions to each of the bands; a reader that reads the image data from the region associated with each band and outputs the image data for composition; a composer that composes the image data for composition with the image data to be printed; and an image former that forms an image based on the composed image data.

Claim (Index 11):
An image forming method comprising:\n generating image data for composition in page units which is composed with image data to be printed; dividing the image data for composition into a plurality of bands; determining whether image data of each band divided by the dividing coincides with image data of another band, securing a unique region for the band of which the image data does not coincide with that of any other bands in an output memory, transferring the image data of the band to the unique region and associating the band with the unique region, securing common regions less than the number of plurality of bands for the plurality of bands having coincided image data in the output memory, transferring the image data of one of the plurality of bands to the common region and associating any one of the common regions to each of the plurality of bands; reading the image data from the region associated with each band and outputting the image data for composition in page units before the division; composing the image data for composition output by the reading with the image data to be printed; and forming an image based on the composed image data output from the composing.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 25.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.74138
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['09509753', '09215555', '14715991', '15719945', '13015631']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4935635655092928
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4688301847203181
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4910902274303953
- Mean Citation Score: 169.90071800000004
- Max Citation Score: 178.99178
- Similarity Product: 143.86805333152176

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