PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16372774
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-04
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["358", "001140"]

Abstract:
An image reading apparatus includes a conveying unit configured to convey a document, a reading unit configured to read an image on the conveyed document, a measurement unit configured to measure a distance from an upper portion of a sheet feeding port for the document to an upper surface of the document, and a control unit configured to, according to the distance measured by the measurement unit, suspend the conveyance of the document by the conveying unit. According to a user operation for reading again the document of which the reading is suspended by the control unit, the conveying unit conveys the document and the reading unit reads the image on the document, and while the document of which the conveyance is suspended is conveyed again, the control unit does not suspend the conveyance of the document based on the distance measured by the measurement unit.

Claim (Index 1):
An image reading apparatus comprising:\n a conveyor that conveys a document; a reader that reads an image on the document conveyed by the conveyor; and a controller that determines whether conveyance state of the document conveyed by the conveyor is unusual state, wherein the controller performs a suspending function for suspending the conveyance of the document by the conveyor if the controller determines that the conveyance state of the document is unusual state, wherein according to a user operation for reading again the document of which the reading is suspended by the controller, the conveyor conveys the document and the reader reads the image on the document, and wherein, while the document of which the conveyance is suspended is conveyed again, the controller does not perform the suspending function.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.05882
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15819972', '16112535', '15826403', '14615917', '15971699']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5362171695052691
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5364473703095213
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5362401895856943
- Mean Citation Score: 289.283298
- Max Citation Score: 375.60065
- Similarity Product: 312.0153703603268

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