PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16363121
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-03
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["399", "081000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes a display unit, an image forming unit, and a control unit. The image forming unit forms an image on a recording sheet. The control unit includes a processor, and acts as a controller when the processor executes a control program. The controller calculates a coverage rate to be realized when the image is formed on the recording sheet, decides a recycle category of the recording sheet according to the coverage rate, and either causes the display unit to display the recycle category, or causes the image forming unit to form an image of the recycle category on the recording sheet, together with the image.

Claim (Index 4):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 3 ,\n wherein the controller forms, when forming the image, the image representing the coverage rate and the recycle category decided, in a blank margin of the recording sheet where the image is not formed, or forms the image representing the coverage rate and the recycle category decided, on a back face of the recording sheet.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.66667
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14968281', '13160773', '15469587', '12862575', '11235750']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8136350168302889
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4726266379630146
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7795341789435616
- Mean Citation Score: 140.640492
- Max Citation Score: 144.22394
- Similarity Product: 94.27777891289472

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

Dataset: test