PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15872231
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["358", "475000"]

Abstract:
An image scanning apparatus includes a controller configured to perform a setting process to set a specific waiting time for a timer, based on a detected position of a document guide. The setting process includes, when the detected position of the document guide is a particular guide position for a first-size document sheet, setting a first waiting time as the specific waiting time for the timer, and when the detected position of the document guide is not the particular guide position, setting a second waiting time as the specific waiting time for the timer, the second waiting time being longer than the first waiting time.

Claim (Index 4):
The image scanning apparatus according to  claim 3 , further comprising a storage,\n wherein the controller is further configured to:\n prior to performing the scanning process, perform a storing process comprising:\n storing, into the storage, the specific waiting time set for the timer, as a last waiting time; \n storing, into the storage, detection results of the second document detector and the third document detector as last detection results; and \n storing, into the storage, the detected position of the document guide as a last document-guide position; \n \n calculate a skew angle of the document sheet from the scanned image of the document sheet; \n when the calculated skew angle is equal to or more than a particular angle, set a skew angle flag to a first value and store the first value into the storage, the first value representing that the skew angle of the document sheet scanned in the scanning process is equal to or more than the particular angle; \n in response to the first document detector detecting another document sheet placed on the document tray, determine whether the another document sheet has a same size as the document sheet scanned in the scanning process, by determining whether a newly detected position of the document guide is coincident with the last document-guide position stored in the storage and whether new detection results of the second document detector and the third document detector are coincident with the last detection results stored in the storage; \n in response to determining that the another document sheet has the same size as the document sheet scanned in the scanning process, determine whether the skew angle of the document sheet scanned in the scanning process is equal to or more than the particular angle, based on a setting value of the skew angle flag stored in the storage; \n in response to determining that the skew angle of the document sheet scanned in the scanning process is equal to or more than the particular angle, set a period of time obtained by adding a particular period of time to the last waiting time stored in the storage, as the specific waiting time for the timer; \n in response to determining that the skew angle of the document sheet scanned in the scanning process is less than the particular angle, set the last waiting time stored in the storage, as the specific waiting time for the timer; and \n in response to determining that the another document sheet does not have the same size as the document sheet scanned in the scanning process, perform the setting process to set another specific waiting time for the timer based on the newly detected position of the document guide, set the skew angle flag to a second value different from the first value, and store the second value into the storage.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.69048
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13241958', '12567004', '15473829', '12506676', '11357986']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4979084778235824
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4891157654624143
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4970292065874656
- Mean Citation Score: 182.975176
- Max Citation Score: 185.41942
- Similarity Product: 125.5035918121946

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

Dataset: test