PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15949923
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["358", "003260"]

Abstract:
An image reading apparatus, including: a conveyance unit configured to convey a document along a conveyance path; a transparent plate provided to the conveyance path; a reading unit configured to read an image of the document passing the transparent plate; a detector configured to detect a foreign substance on the transparent plate from image data output from the reading unit; a light source provided to one end side face of the transparent plate; and a controller configured to control lighting-up of the light source based on a detection result of the detector.

Claim (Index 7):
An image reading apparatus according to  claim 1 , wherein the transparent plate includes a first transparent plate and a second transparent plate,\n wherein the reading unit includes a first reading unit configured to read an image on a front side of the document passing the first transparent plate and a second reading unit configured to read an image on a back side of the document passing the second transparent plate, wherein the light source includes a first light source provided to one end side face of the first transparent plate and a second light source provided to one end side face of the second transparent plate, and wherein the controller controls the first light source and the second light source to light up the first light source based on a detection result of a foreign substance from image data output from the first reading unit by the detector and to light up the second light source based on a detection result of a foreign substance from image data output from the second reading unit by the detector.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.12766
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12981843', '12630753', '14106586', '12831977', '14154254']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5212996548963367
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4875311010181952
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5179227995085225
- Mean Citation Score: 177.098054
- Max Citation Score: 189.10222
- Similarity Product: 134.78805471334934

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