PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15974487
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["358", "001700"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes: a halftone processing unit configured to perform halftone processing on image data by a dither matrix that includes a plurality of submatrices and decide an exposure region of an image. In at least one of a first dither matrix corresponding to a first section, and a second dither matrix corresponding to a second section adjacent to the first dither matrix in the main scanning direction and corresponding to a second section different from the first section in tone value, at least a size of an exposure region of an image formed by using a first submatrix corresponding to a predetermined tone value in the dither matrix and a size of an exposure region of an image formed by using a second submatrix corresponding to the predetermined tone value are different.

Claim (Index 2):
The apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein the first submatrix and the second submatrix are adjacent to a boundary between the first dither matrix and the second dither matrix.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 49.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.64151
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11412478', '14522375', '11794286', '12179122', '14992276']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5049767365220398
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5017340669975223
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.504652469569588
- Mean Citation Score: 230.367518
- Max Citation Score: 245.757
- Similarity Product: 194.80641590827705

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

Dataset: test