PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15925934
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["358", "001900"]

Abstract:
An image scanning apparatus includes a distance detector configured to output a detection signal having a value corresponding to a distance in a main scanning direction from a particular position to a side end of a document sheet being conveyed, and a controller configured to store a first position of the document sheet in a conveyance direction when the distance detector outputs a detection signal having a first value corresponding to a first particular distance, store a second position of the document sheet in the conveyance direction when the distance detector outputs a detection signal having a second value corresponding to a second particular distance, and calculate a skew angle of the document sheet based on the first position and the second position.

Claim (Index 4):
The image scanning apparatus according to  claim 3 ,\n wherein the controller is further configured to perform a setting process comprising:\n when determining that the document sheet is being conveyed in the state rotated in the first direction, setting the first distance detector as a target detector and setting the second distance detector as a non-target detector; and \n when determining that the document sheet is being conveyed in the state rotated in the second direction, setting the second distance detector as the target detector and setting the first distance detector as the non-target detector, and \n wherein the second storing process comprises:\n a fifth storing process to, when determining that the target detector has output a detection signal having the second value, store the second position into the storage; and \n a skew determining process to, when determining that the target detector has not output a detection signal having the second value and that the non-target detector has output a detection signal having the first value, determine that the document sheet being conveyed by the conveyor is not skewed.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.82222
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15872231', '15473829', '15388367', '15433315', '14813594']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.513252343266751
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5263108105880454
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5145581899988805
- Mean Citation Score: 244.659764
- Max Citation Score: 334.50754
- Similarity Product: 227.83470412517903

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