PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16141760
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-04
Patent Classification: ["399", "069000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a heat roller configured to heat a sheet on which a toner image is formed, a plurality of heaters arranged in a main scanning direction, each of the heaters configured to heat one of a plurality of blocks of the heat roller arranged in the main scanning direction, a counter circuit configured to count for each of the blocks of the heat roller, the number of pixels of a toner image which are formed on a region of the sheet heated by the block, and a controller configured to determine for each heater a duty ratio of pulses to be output to the heater according to the number of pixels counted by the counter circuit, and output pulses to each of the heaters according to the duty ratio thereof.

Claim (Index 7):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein\n the counter circuit is configured to count the total number of pixels in the region in a second direction perpendicular to the main scanning direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.66038
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15423750', '15271219', '16021060', '14210977', '12184710']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8030746651942587
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4788585919459295
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7706530578694258
- Mean Citation Score: 137.140804
- Max Citation Score: 139.86354
- Similarity Product: 85.95487172882795

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

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