PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16041942
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["358", "003130"]

Abstract:
A technique capable of keeping image quality and speeding up a halftone process is provided. An image processing device performs the halftone process on image data in which a pixel has a pixel value conforming to a bit count N. Bits conforming to the bit count N include higher H bits (where H is an integer satisfying an inequality of 1≤H<N) and lower L bits following the higher H bits (where L is an integer satisfying an inequality of 1≤L≤N−H). The image processing device includes a first halftone processing unit configured to generate dot data indicative of a formation state of a dot, with respect to a first pixel allowing a determination of a formation state of a dot, based on the higher H bits in the pixel value and higher H bits in a dither mask.

Claim (Index 13):
A non-transitory computer readable medium storing an image processing program configured to perform a halftone process on image data in which a pixel has a pixel value conforming to a bit count N, wherein bits conforming to the bit count N include higher H bits, H being an integer satisfying an inequality of 1\u2264H<N, and lower L bits following the higher H bits, L being an integer satisfying an inequality of 1\u2264L\u2264N\u2212H, the image processing program stored in the non-transitory computer readable medium allowing a computer to achieve functions, the functions comprising:\n a first halftone processing function generating dot data in which stores \u201c1\u201d or \u201c0\u201d indicative of a formation state of a dot, with respect to a first pixel allowing a determination of a formation state of a dot, based on the higher H bits in the pixel value and higher H bits in a dither mask; and a second halftone processing function generating the dot data, with respect to a second pixel disallowing the first halftone processing function to determine a formation state of a dot, based on at least the lower L bits in the pixel value and at least lower L bits in the dither mask.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.11429
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16005834', '14977299', '13567658', '14958376', '15079408']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5184586304560267
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4955679476779676
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5161695621782207
- Mean Citation Score: 231.076984
- Max Citation Score: 241.78362
- Similarity Product: 181.0587962460494

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

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