PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15928186
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["399", "069000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus comprises a reading section configured to read a first image on a sheet, an image forming section configured to forma second image on the sheet, a fixing section configured to heat the sheet to fix the second image on the sheet, and a processor. The processor is configured to determine a color of the read first image, select a decolorable toner based on the determined color, and set a target temperature of the fixing section to a temperature that is below a decoloring temperature of the decolorable toner, and above both a decoloring temperature of a decolorable toner having the determined color and a fixing temperature for the decolorable toner.

Claim (Index 3):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 , further comprising:\n the processor is configured to detect a mark based on a reading result of the reading section and determine whether to form the second image based on a result of the detection, wherein the processor controls the fixing section to heat the sheet to a temperature at which the decolorable toner having the determined color is decolored, if the processor determines that the second image is not to be formed on the sheet.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 10.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.71111
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14482554', '15069965', '13307446', '15364058', '14224336']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8191770398518969
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4908108859705396
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7863404244637612
- Mean Citation Score: 252.272018
- Max Citation Score: 258.70847000000003
- Similarity Product: 184.02189846551417

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