PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16162619
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["399", "049000"]

Abstract:
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming device to form an image on an image bearer and circuitry configured to accept, from a user, an input of a density level selected from a plurality of different density levels and control an image forming condition under which the image forming device forms the image. The circuitry is configured to correct density unevenness of the image formed on the image bearer by the image forming device and correct the density unevenness of the image at the density level accepted. The density unevenness is unevenness appearing in a main scanning direction orthogonal to a direction of conveyance of the image bearer during image formation.

Claim (Index 4):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 2 , wherein the density sensor is configured to detect the densities of the image at a plurality of detection positions different in the main scanning direction to acquire an image density distribution in the main scanning direction, and\n wherein the circuitry is configured to:\n calculate, for each of the plurality of density unevenness correction patterns, a detection result center position being a center position in the main scanning direction of each of the plurality of density unevenness correction patterns from the image density distribution; \n calculate, for each of the plurality of density unevenness correction patterns, an amount of deviation between a predetermined center position in the main scanning direction of each of the plurality of density unevenness correction patterns and the detection result center position; and \n displace, by the amount of deviation, the plurality of detection positions in the main scanning direction in the detection result to be output.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.29412
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14726847', '14499733', '14619387', '15190685', '16048567']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8211686345767476
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4742972917375648
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7864815002928294
- Mean Citation Score: 194.711888
- Max Citation Score: 202.25893
- Similarity Product: 149.80893514584483

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