PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16029822
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["358", "003140"]

Abstract:
Threshold values in a dither matrix according to the present invention are arranged such that in a case where screen processing is executed on a multi-tone image that has a first density, halftone dots are formed at a first screen angle, and in a case where screen processing is executed on a multi-tone image that has a density being higher than a second density that is higher than the first density, halftone dots are formed at a second screen angle that is different from the first screen angle.

Claim (Index 6):
A method for controlling an image forming apparatus that includes a storage device that stores dither matrices that are used in screen processing that is performed to convert a multi-tone image to a binary image or a multi-value image that has a smaller number of tones than the multi-tone image, the method comprising:\n obtaining a dither matrix corresponding to an input multi-tone image, from the storage device; and executing screen processing, using the dither matrix thus obtained, wherein the threshold values in each of the dither matrices are arranged such that\n in a case where screen processing is executed on a multi-tone image that has a first density, halftone dots are formed at a first screen angle and at a first screen ruling, and \n in a case where screen processing is executed on a multi-tone image that has a density being higher than a second density that is higher than the first density, halftone dots are formed at a second screen angle that is different from the first screen angle and at a second screen ruling that is lower than the first screen ruling.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.2439
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12231776', '15235354', '12141829', '12487417', '13429573']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5510687154265447
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5226731604086042
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5482291599247506
- Mean Citation Score: 304.982456
- Max Citation Score: 334.4599
- Similarity Product: 255.82830736941696

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

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