PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15936677
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["347", "014000"]

Abstract:
A printing apparatus comprises: a printing unit that performs printing and prints an inspection pattern including a first patch and a second patch different in color or having the same color and different in density so as to extend in the first direction respectively on the printing medium by the plurality of orifices wherein the first patch and the second patch are arranged in the second direction; a scanning unit that includes a plurality of detection elements arranged in the second direction, performs scan in the first direction and, scanning the inspection pattern on the printing medium; and wherein the scanning unit scans the first patch by using a first detection element of the plurality of detection elements and scans the second patch by using a second detection element which is another element of the plurality of detection elements respectively.

Claim (Index 8):
A printing apparatus comprising:\n a printing unit configured to include a plurality of orifices which discharge ink of a first color and are arrayed in a first direction and a plurality of orifices which discharge ink of a second color and are arrayed in the first direction, perform, based on image data indicating an image to be printed, printing by discharging the ink of the first color and the ink of the second color from the plurality of orifices to a printing medium conveyed in a second direction crossing the first direction, and print an inspection pattern so as to extend in the first direction by the plurality of orifices of the printing unit on the printing medium; a scanning unit configured to include a plurality of detection elements arranged in the second direction, perform scan in the first direction and, during the scan, scan the inspection pattern on the printing medium and a correcting unit configured to correct, based on a scanning result of the inspection pattern by the scanning unit, the image data so as to reduce unevenness in density between areas of image on the printing medium printed by the printing unit in respective in a predetermined direction, wherein the printing unit forms, as the inspection pattern, a plurality of patches of the first color different in density and a plurality of patches of the second color different in density such that the plurality of patches of the first color and the plurality of patches of the second color are arranged in the second direction, and the plurality of patches of the second color are arranged in an area outside a range where the plurality of patches of the first color on the printing medium are formed in the second direction, and the scanning unit scans the plurality of patches of the first color in one scan and scans the plurality of patches of the second color in another scan different from the scan in which the plurality of patches of the first color are scanned.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.65455
- Patent Class: 347.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['10881412', '13551870', '11859382', '14681246', '09846104']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.72137753344547
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5022132052048507
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6994611006214081
- Mean Citation Score: 233.06501
- Max Citation Score: 241.28668
- Similarity Product: 165.10583204085592

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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