PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15935124
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["399", "015000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus according to an embodiment includes an image acquisition unit, a heating unit, a presence-or-absence-of-an-image determination unit, an image formation unit, a determination unit, and a heating control unit. The image acquisition unit reads an image on a sheet. The heating unit heats the sheet. Based on the image that is read by the image acquisition unit, the presence-or-absence-of-an-image determination unit determines whether the image is printed on the sheet. The image formation unit forms the image on the sheet using a decolorable toner that is decolorized by heating the sheet to a prescribed temperature and a non-decolorable toner that is not decolorized although the sheet is heated. The determination unit determines whether to supply power to the heating unit, depending on an instruction which the decolorable toner is decolorized and on determination by the presence-or-absence-of-an-image determination unit whether the image is printed on the sheet.

Claim (Index 3):
The apparatus according to  claim 8 ,\n wherein the image acquisition unit is located in a position in which the image on the sheet is optically readable until the heating unit starts to heat the sheet.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.24
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14482554', '15069965', '14718380', '15364058', '13493059']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8291211939027912
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4910907568101724
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7953181501935294
- Mean Citation Score: 229.325942
- Max Citation Score: 239.62762
- Similarity Product: 163.57807405827762

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