PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15941979
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["347", "179000"]

Abstract:
A decoloring apparatus includes a reading unit that reads an image formed on a sheet and outputs image information corresponding to the read image. A control unit is configured to recognize the image information output by the reading unit and determine whether decoloring using the decoloring unit is performed on the sheet based on the recognized image information.

Claim (Index 31):
A decoloring method comprising:\n performing a decoloring processing for decoloring an image formed on a sheet; after performing the decoloring processing, reading a surface of the sheet and generating image information corresponding to the read surface; determining a decoloring rate of the sheet based on the received image information; and determining whether the sheet is reusable based on the determined decoloring rate.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 53.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.76471
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15605434', '14749451', '14293723', '13198597', '14482554']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.707482387583387
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4911204973414356
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6858461985591918
- Mean Citation Score: 207.46407
- Max Citation Score: 242.79643
- Similarity Product: 195.4745143072754

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

Dataset: test