PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15933461
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["358", "001130"]

Abstract:
The image forming apparatus according to the embodiment includes a first sensor unit, a setting unit, and a notification unit. The first sensor unit is configured to detect a person who enters a detection range and specify a position of the person. If an error related to image processing or image formation occurs, the setting unit is configured to set a notification direction according to the position of the person who enters the detection range. The notification unit is configured to notify an occurrence of the error in the notification direction based on setting by the setting unit.

Claim (Index 5):
The apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprise:\n setting the notification direction to a predetermined direction in response to the error, and notifying the occurrence of the error in the predetermined direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.33333
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14924094', '15222687', '14830422', '15384006', '14994903']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.4757606679244878
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.483247479548634
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.4765093490869024
- Mean Citation Score: 93.4236302
- Max Citation Score: 105.661255
- Similarity Product: 66.16514930424215

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