PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16124491
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["399", "045000"]

Abstract:
According to an embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes a decoloring unit that performs decoloring processing on an image formed on a sheet using decolorable material. An image forming unit forms an image on a sheet. A reuse tray can receive a sheet. Anew sheet tray can receive a sheet. A processor performs processing to determine whether to convey a sheet from the reuse tray or the new sheet tray to the image forming unit to form an image thereon. When it is determined that the sheet is conveyed from the reuse tray, the processor controls the decoloring unit to perform the decoloring processing on the sheet, and update a rewards account of the user.

Claim (Index 7):
The apparatus according to  claim 3 , further comprising:\n a reuse sheet sensor configured to provide a signal indicating whether a reuse sheet is on the reuse tray; a new sheet tray configured to receive another sheet different from the sheet provided by the user; and a new sheet sensor configured to provide a signal indicating whether any sheet is provided on the new sheet tray, wherein the processor is further configured to:\n determine whether a sheet is on the new sheet tray based on the signal from the new sheet sensor, and \n when it is determined that a sheet is not on the reuse tray, and that a sheet is on the new sheet tray, control the image forming unit to form an image on the sheet from the new sheet tray.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 13.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.33962
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15639539', '14934317', '14476397', '15344702', '15605434']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7852092533885529
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4946741621895024
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7561557442686478
- Mean Citation Score: 244.161902
- Max Citation Score: 283.90897
- Similarity Product: 245.5711760707569

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