PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15997821
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["399", "045000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus that highly precisely suppresses misregistration of an image relative to a sheet due to sub-scanning skew and a control method are provided. The image forming apparatus includes: displacement rollers including at least a pair of rollers conveying a sheet that is being conveyed, toward a transfer section; a detection section that detects a position of a side end part of the sheet; and a hardware processor that performs processing for displacing the displacement rollers based on displacement control information and correcting the displacement control information for next and subsequent sheets based on a detection result of detection by the detection section after the displacement of the displacement rollers.

Claim (Index 3):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein:\n the hardware processor displaces the displacement rollers at a plurality of positions in a sheet conveyance direction, for one said sheet; the hardware processor corrects the displacement control information for at least one of the plurality of positions on next and subsequent sheets based on respective detection results of the detection by the detector after the displacement of the displacement roller at the plurality of positions; and the displacement control information is not necessarily constant for each of the plurality of positions.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 28.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.81538
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15959399', '15959408', '14331795', '14080172', '14928455']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8371936079144732
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.503879709142037
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8038622180372296
- Mean Citation Score: 266.48985200000004
- Max Citation Score: 303.74072
- Similarity Product: 226.1807644164705

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