PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15949923
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["358", "003260"]

Abstract:
An image reading apparatus, including: a conveyance unit configured to convey a document along a conveyance path; a transparent plate provided to the conveyance path; a reading unit configured to read an image of the document passing the transparent plate; a detector configured to detect a foreign substance on the transparent plate from image data output from the reading unit; a light source provided to one end side face of the transparent plate; and a controller configured to control lighting-up of the light source based on a detection result of the detector.

Claim (Index 4):
An image reading apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein the transparent plate is provided so that the other end side face opposed to the one end side face on which the light source is provided is exposed through an exposure window provided in an exterior member of the image reading apparatus, and\n wherein light from the light source is propagated inside the transparent plate and output from the other end side face.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.12766
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12981843', '12630753', '14106586', '12831977', '14154254']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5181350891225714
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4999400105717258
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5163155812674869
- Mean Citation Score: 177.098054
- Max Citation Score: 189.10222
- Similarity Product: 118.26246700759889

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

Dataset: test