PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16176921
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["358", "003260"]

Abstract:
An image reading apparatus according to an embodiment includes an image reading unit configured to generate reference data by reading a reference surface and to generate image data by reading a sheet. A reference unit has a reference surface. A shading correction unit determines whether a portion of the reference surface includes a contaminant based on image data generated by the image reading unit reading the portion of the reference unit. When the portion of the reference surface is determined to not include a contaminant, the shading correction unit generates reference data based on the image data generated by the image reading unit reading the portion of the reference surface determined to not include a contaminant.

Claim (Index 2):
The image reading apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein\n the controller is configured to generate positional information that indicates a position of the contaminant on the reference surface, based on the reference value.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.025
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15404765', '16028078', '15401532', '13105531', '12926212']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5160509045181132
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4990651110354068
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5143523251698425
- Mean Citation Score: 177.96453200000005
- Max Citation Score: 239.13354
- Similarity Product: 176.70810334843395

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

Dataset: test