PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16029822
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["358", "003140"]

Abstract:
Threshold values in a dither matrix according to the present invention are arranged such that in a case where screen processing is executed on a multi-tone image that has a first density, halftone dots are formed at a first screen angle, and in a case where screen processing is executed on a multi-tone image that has a density being higher than a second density that is higher than the first density, halftone dots are formed at a second screen angle that is different from the first screen angle.

Claim (Index 8):
The dither matrix according to  claim 7 , further comprising:\n a first reference point at which a first dot is to be formed; a second reference point that is located in the vicinity of the first reference point and at which a second dot is to be formed; and a third reference point that is located between the first reference point and the second reference point, wherein threshold values in the dither matrix are arranged such that\n in a case where a value of a multi-tone image in a unit area is less than a first value, dots are formed at and around the first reference point and at and around the second reference point, and thus halftone dots are formed at the first screen angle and at the first screen ruling, and \n in a case where a value of a multi-tone image in a unit area is no less than a second value that is greater than the first value, a third dot that is a combination of the first dot and the second dot is formed, and dots are also formed around the third dot so that the third dot is further combined with the dots, and thus halftone dots are formed at the second screen angle and at the second screen ruling.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.2439
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12231776', '15235354', '12141829', '12487417', '13429573']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.551091806827616
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5244400341764741
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5484266295625019
- Mean Citation Score: 304.982456
- Max Citation Score: 334.4599
- Similarity Product: 235.4730851469755

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

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