PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15914880
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["358", "001120"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes an image reading unit, an original conveyance unit, a reversing unit, an image forming unit, an image forming conveyance unit, and a control unit. The original conveyance unit conveys an original in a first direction toward the image reading unit, which reads an image of the original. The reversing unit conveys an original passing through the image reading unit in the first direction, or reversely conveys the original toward the image reading unit in a second direction. The image forming unit forms an image on a sheet. The image forming conveyance unit conveys, to the image forming unit, an original reversely conveyed by the reversing unit via the image reading unit. The control unit controls an operation for reading an image of the original by using the image reading unit and for overprinting the original with an image by using the image forming unit.

Claim (Index 9):
A method for an image forming apparatus, the method comprising:\n reading an image of an original via an image reading unit; conveying, via a an original conveyance unit, an original in a first direction toward the image reading unit; conveying, via an original reversing unit provided downstream of the image reading unit in the first direction, an original passing through the image reading unit in the first direction, or reversely convey the original toward the image reading unit in a second direction opposite to the first direction; forming an image on a sheet via an image forming unit; conveying, to the image forming unit via an image forming conveyance unit, an original reversely conveyed by the original reversing unit via the image reading unit; and controlling an operation for reading an image of the original by using the image reading unit and for overprinting the original with an image by using the image forming unit, wherein, using first image information and second image information, controlling includes providing an instruction for executing at least one of change of a posture of the original and correction of a print image for overprinting the original, wherein the first image information includes information which is about an edge portion of the original and is acquired via the image reading unit when the original is conveyed in the first direction, and wherein the second image information includes at least information which is about a leading edge portion of the original after reverse and is acquired via the image reading unit when the original is conveyed in the second direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 20.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.72727
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15480755', '15488688', '14261579', '14874796', '14384221']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5085559980986626
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4780863212164476
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.505509030410441
- Mean Citation Score: 202.744576
- Max Citation Score: 219.47728
- Similarity Product: 184.7179004664421

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

Dataset: test