PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15864122
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["358", "001600"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes: rasterization processors that rasterize input image data and generate raster image data; a predictor that predicts a rasterization processing time required for the rasterization processors to rasterize input image data of a unit to be subjected to an image formation process on each recording paper sheet; a hardware processor that determines an order in which the rasterization processors rasterize the input image data of the unit; an image former that performs the image formation process based on the raster image data; a sheet ejection processor that acquires, from the image former, each recording paper sheet subjected to the image formation process, and performs a sheet ejection process; and the hardware processor that determines an order of the recording paper sheets to be ejected by the sheet eject processor, to adjust the order of the recording paper sheets to an order of pages.

Claim (Index 7):
An image forming method for an image forming apparatus that includes:\n a plurality of rasterization processors that rasterize, in parallel, input image data having page information, and generate raster image data; and a sheet ejection processor that acquires recording paper sheets from an image former, and performs a sheet ejection process, the image former performing an image formation process based on the raster image data on the recording paper sheets, the image forming method comprising: predicting a rasterization processing time required for rasterizing input image data of a unit to be subjected to the image formation process on recording paper sheets, the rasterization processing time being predicted by a predictor; determining an order in which the rasterization processors rasterize, in parallel, the input image data of the unit to be subjected to the image formation process in accordance with the rasterization processing time predicted by the predictor, so that a time from a start of a rasterization process till an end of the sheet ejection process becomes shorter than a time from a start of a rasterization process performed by the rasterization processors performing rasterization processes in the order of the pages included in the page information till the end of the sheet ejection process, the order being determined by a hardware processor; performing image formation in an order in which the rasterization processors have finished the rasterization processes in parallel on the input image data of the unit to be subjected to the image formation process on recording paper sheets, the image formation being performed by the image former; and determining an order of the recording paper sheets to be ejected by the sheet ejection processor, to adjust the order of the recording paper sheets to the page information.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.77193
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12050562', '15266122', '09568438', '13176050', '13888450']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5176759042519373
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4975645435773431
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5156647681844779
- Mean Citation Score: 226.29157
- Max Citation Score: 231.10147
- Similarity Product: 161.82499560203732

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