PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15991735
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["358", "001180"]

Abstract:
The image forming apparatus executes a process of generating image data of an alternative image involving a smaller consumption quantity of color material than an image contained in a replacement-object area and then generating replaced image data in which the image data of the replacement-object area has been replaced with the image data of the alternative image, and the control section instructs a printing section to execute color material-saving printing of printing an image based on the replaced image data on a sheet. The alternative image is an image containing information for allowing an image based on the image data of the replacement-object area to be displayed by an information terminal that has read the alternative image.

Claim (Index 5):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein\n in a case where the replacement-object area is present in the printing-use image data subjected to conversion from color image data to monochrome image data, the control section decides whether or not a remaining quantity of black color material to be used for monochrome printing is smaller than a predetermined threshold remaining quantity, where when the remaining quantity of the black color material is smaller than the threshold remaining quantity, the control section instructs the printing section to execute the color material-saving printing, or when the remaining quantity of the black color material is equal to or larger than the threshold remaining quantity, the control section blocks the printing section from executing the color material-saving printing even with the replacement-object area present in the printing-use image data.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.22222
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13019682', '11048872', '15157788', '13303674', '14578871']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.468116663532264
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4826945903991645
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4695744562189541
- Mean Citation Score: 154.664556
- Max Citation Score: 156.81546
- Similarity Product: 114.62196081326007

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

Dataset: test