PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16006086
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["347", "016000"]

Abstract:
A printing apparatus that prints an image on a print medium, which includes a sheet serving as a base and a label formed on the sheet, said apparatus comprising: an acquiring unit configured to acquire information on a shape of the label; a printing unit configured to perform printing on the label; a conveying unit configured to convey the print medium in a predetermined conveyance direction; a detecting unit configured to detects the label; a moving unit configured to cause the detecting unit to be movable in a direction intersecting the conveyance direction; and a control unit configured to, in a case where the label has a shape including a portion protruding on the downstream side in conveyance direction, move the detecting unit to a region corresponding to a most protruding position of the label on the downstream side in the conveyance direction on the basis of information acquired by the acquiring unit, and starts the printing on the label on the basis of a detection result of the detecting unit.

Claim (Index 10):
A printing method of printing an image on a print medium, which includes a sheet serving as a base and a label formed on the sheet, said method comprising:\n an acquisition step of acquiring information on a shape of the label; a movement step of moving a detecting unit that detects the label to a region corresponding to a most protruding position of the label on a downstream side in the conveyance direction on the basis of information acquired in the acquisition step in a case where the label has a shape including a portion protruding on the downstream side in the conveyance direction; a conveyance step of conveying the print medium in a predetermined conveyance direction; a detection step of detecting the label; and a printing step of starting printing on the label on the basis of a detection result of the detecting step.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 3.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.65217
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14315126', '14830605', '12558182', '15912869', '14668188']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.703756104183969
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4831015239648063
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6816906461620527
- Mean Citation Score: 191.66924
- Max Citation Score: 204.35504
- Similarity Product: 156.0222908167267

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

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