PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16030231
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["347", "016000"]

Abstract:
In an embodiment of this invention, a technique that implements satisfactory image formation by locating a place where the condition of a transfer member is poor and restricting image formation for the place. More specifically, the following control is performed by a printing apparatus that includes a transfer member which rotates, a printhead configured to form an image on the transfer member, and a transfer unit which transfers, to a print medium, the image formed on the transfer member. That is, a surface condition of the transfer member is detected, and image formation by the printhead for a region determined that the surface condition is poor is restricted.

Claim (Index 6):
The apparatus according to  claim 4 , wherein a plurality of the optical sensors are provided at different positions along an axial direction of the rotating shaft, and\n based on respective measurement results of the plurality of the optical sensors, the surface condition of the transfer member is determined to be one of normal and poor for each region divided in the axial direction of the rotating shaft.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.2037
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['16026293', '15906296', '15906156', '16025548', '15920479']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7917175037655375
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5131391339344721
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7638596667824309
- Mean Citation Score: 239.540688
- Max Citation Score: 243.37924
- Similarity Product: 130.16168196827178

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

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