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 2):
The image forming apparatus according to  claim 1 , further comprising a density sensor configured to detect densities of the image on the image bearer and output a detection result,\n wherein the circuitry is configured to:\n cause the image forming device to form a plurality of density unevenness correction patterns having different densities; \n cause the density sensor to detect a density of each of the plurality of density unevenness correction patterns; \n calculate, for each of the plurality of density unevenness correction patterns, a correction amount of the image forming condition to correct the density unevenness of each of the plurality of density unevenness correction patterns, based on the density of each of the plurality of density unevenness correction patterns detected by the density sensor; and \n perform weighting of the correction amount for each of the plurality of density unevenness correction patterns in accordance with the density level accepted, to calculate a weighted correction amount of the image forming condition at the density level accepted.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.29412
- Patent Class: 399.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14726847', '14499733', '14619387', '15190685', '16048567']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.8039070842629088
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4665342357071879
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7701697994073368
- Mean Citation Score: 194.711888
- Max Citation Score: 202.25893
- Similarity Product: 158.23756397148787

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

Dataset: test