PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16029822
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["358", "003140"]

Abstract:
Threshold values in a dither matrix according to the present invention are arranged such that in a case where screen processing is executed on a multi-tone image that has a first density, halftone dots are formed at a first screen angle, and in a case where screen processing is executed on a multi-tone image that has a density being higher than a second density that is higher than the first density, halftone dots are formed at a second screen angle that is different from the first screen angle.

Claim (Index 7):
A dither matrix that is used in screen processing that is performed to convert a multi-tone image to a binary image or a multi-value image that has a smaller number of tones than the multi-tone image, the dither matrix comprising:\n a first growth point that indicates a center point around which a dot in a screen is to grow; a second growth point that is located in the vicinity of the first growth point; and a third growth point at which dots grown at the first and second growth points are combined and grow to be one dot, wherein the dither matrix is configured such that\n in a case where screen processing is executed on a multi-tone image that has a first density, halftone dots are formed at a first screen angle and at a first screen ruling, and \n in a case where screen processing is executed on a multi-tone image that has a density being higher than a second density that is higher than the first density, halftone dots are formed at a second screen angle that is different from the first screen angle and at a second screen ruling that is lower than the first screen ruling.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 8.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.2439
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12231776', '15235354', '12141829', '12487417', '13429573']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5510937448412754
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5245899740677313
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.548443367763921
- Mean Citation Score: 304.982456
- Max Citation Score: 334.4599
- Similarity Product: 233.7456061555505

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

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