PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16201845
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["358", "518000"]

Abstract:
An original image is read as an aggregate of a plurality of pixels in which adjacent pixels have different colors (R, G, and B) in a main scanning direction and in a sub-scanning direction, and the read pixels of the respective colors are stored in a line memory in association with information on relative positions of the pixels with respect to another pixel. Then, the stored pixels are sorted so that pixels having the same color are adjacent to each other, and an abnormal pixel (dust) not present in the original image is detected based on the state of the sorted pixels. With this, the dust not present in the original image is detected without increasing the cost, and the dust is corrected without forming a conspicuous trace of correction.

Claim (Index 16):
The image reading apparatus according to  claim 14 ,\n wherein each of the first plurality of light receiving elements and the second plurality of light receiving elements further includes a light receiving element receiving light of a third color that is different from both the first color and the second color, wherein each of the first plurality of light receiving elements and the second plurality of light receiving elements includes a light receiving element receiving light of the first color, a light receiving element receiving light of the second color adjacent to the light receiving element receiving light of the first color and a light receiving element receiving light of the third color adjacent to the light receiving element receiving light of the second color.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15589327', '15602148', '15603641', '15603632', '15591789']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5035234567856093
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5359433653346809
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5067654476405165
- Mean Citation Score: 262.393444
- Max Citation Score: 351.50354
- Similarity Product: 322.540603647188

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