PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16018576
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["358", "001150"]

Abstract:
There is provided a system that includes a transfer member configured to cyclically pass through a formation area of an ink image and a transfer area where the ink image is transferred to a cut sheet, including a plurality of areas that allow printing on a plurality of cut sheets in one round. The system controls the number of copies in one round of the transfer member so as to use some areas of the transfer member for the formation of the ink image, and decides, in accordance with a use count of each of the plurality of areas for printing, an area where the ink image of print data is transferred to the cut sheet so as to use, for printing, the area with the count smaller than the counts of the remaining areas more often.

Claim (Index 1):
A printing apparatus comprising:\n a conveyance unit configured to convey a cut sheet; a transfer member configured to cyclically pass through a formation area of an ink image and a transfer area where the ink image is transferred to the cut sheet, having a peripheral length defined based on a length of the cut sheet to which the ink image can be transferred, and including a plurality of areas that allow printing on the plurality of cut sheets in one round; an acquisition unit configured to acquire print data for forming the ink image on the transfer member, that is obtained when an image processing unit processes data representing an image of a print target; a print unit configured to discharge ink to the transfer member based on the print data and form the ink image on the transfer member in the formation area; a transfer unit configured to transfer the ink image from the transfer member to the cut sheet conveyed by the conveyance unit in the transfer area; and a control unit configured to control the number of copies in one round of the transfer member so as to use some of the plurality of areas for the formation of the ink image and so as not to use the remaining areas for the formation of the ink image, and control the formation and transfer of the ink image by deciding, in accordance with one of a use count of each of the plurality of areas of the transfer member for printing and a paper feeding count for each of the plurality of areas of the transfer member, an area where the ink image of the print data is transferred to the cut sheet so as to use, for printing, the area with the count smaller than the counts of the remaining areas more often than the remaining areas.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 37.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.41667
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15925856', '15891848', '15920838', '15920479', '13979765']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4650349003064323
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5184023908791809
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4703716493637072
- Mean Citation Score: 235.47764
- Max Citation Score: 312.54514
- Similarity Product: 276.64560964145784

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

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