PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15878664
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["347", "014000"]

Abstract:
A printing apparatus for printing on an elongate printing medium includes the following elements: a transport mechanism for transporting the printing medium; a printing unit including a plurality of print heads arranged at intervals in a transport direction; a detecting unit including at least three detectors arranged as spaced from one another for detecting positions in a width direction of the printing medium; a variation history acquirer for deriving, for each detection cycle, a function approximate curve based on positions of the same location in the transport direction of the printing medium detected by the respective detectors, and acquiring from each function approximate curve, and as a variation history, a deviation amount in the width direction in each of the printing positions; a predicted position calculator for calculating, from the variation history, a predicted position in the width direction for each of the printing position; and a printing controller for printing while correcting the position based on the predicted position.

Claim (Index 16):
The printing method according to  claim 14 , wherein:\n the detecting unit has a most downstream one of the detectors disposed upstream of a most downstream one of the print heads of the printing unit; and the predicted position calculating step calculates the predicted position for the most downstream one of the print heads by extrapolation.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.52174
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12621716', '15384468', '13781614', '14844534', '14851179']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7754226863643734
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4975050548751616
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7476309232154522
- Mean Citation Score: 233.2999
- Max Citation Score: 257.61603
- Similarity Product: 188.9984262279904

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