PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15903089
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["358", "001200"]

Abstract:
When a corrected pixel value of a target pixel is within a first range and the target pixel is not a prohibited pixel, a first value indicating formation of a dot of a first type having a minimum size is determined as a pixel value of a print pixel corresponding to the target pixel. When the corrected pixel value is within a second range different from the first range and the target pixel is not the prohibited pixel, a second value indicating formation of a dot of a second type having a size greater than the dot of the first type is determined as the pixel value of the print pixel. When the corrected pixel value is within the first range and the target pixel is the prohibited pixel, a non-formation value indicating formation of no dots is determined as the pixel value of the print pixel

Claim (Index 1):
A control apparatus for causing a print executing section to perform printing, the printing executing section being configured to form, on a print medium, M number of types of dots, M being an integer greater than or equal to two (2), the M number of types of dots including dot of a first type having a minimum size and dot of a second type having a size greater than the dot of the first type, the control apparatus comprising a controller configured to perform:\n acquiring target image data containing a plurality of pixels; generating print data containing a plurality of print pixels, the print pixels corresponding to the pixels, respectively, the generating the print data determining, for each pixel, a pixel value for the corresponding print pixel; and supplying the print data to the print executing section, the generating the print data including: correcting a pixel value of a target pixel among the plural pixels by using two or more pixel-value error amounts corresponding to two or more neighboring pixels existing at positions neighboring to the target pixel, thereby calculating a corrected pixel value of the target pixel; by using the pixel value of the target pixel, judging whether or not the target pixel is a prohibited pixel, formation of a dot of at least the first type among the M number of types of dots being prohibited on the print medium at a position corresponding to the prohibited pixel; determining the pixel value of the print pixel corresponding to the target pixel by using the corrected pixel value of the target pixel and dependently on whether the target pixel is the prohibited pixel; and calculating the pixel-value error amount corresponding to the target pixel by using the pixel value of the print pixel corresponding to the target pixel, and the determining the pixel value of the print pixel corresponding to the target pixel including: in a case where the corrected pixel value of the target pixel is within a first range and the target pixel is not the prohibited pixel, determining, as the pixel value of the print pixel corresponding to the target pixel, a first value indicating formation of a dot of the first type; in a case where the corrected pixel value of the target pixel is within a second range that is different from the first range and the target pixel is not the prohibited pixel, determining, as the pixel value of the print pixel corresponding to the target pixel, a second value indicating formation of a dot of the second type; in a case where the corrected pixel value of the target pixel is within a specific range that is different from both of the first and second ranges, determining, as the pixel value of the print pixel corresponding to the target pixel, a non-formation value indicating formation of no dots; and in a case where the corrected pixel value of the target pixel is within the first range and the target pixel is the prohibited pixel, determining the non-formation value as the pixel value of the print pixel corresponding to the target pixel.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 4.10811
- Patent Class: 358.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15713193', '14317243', '13830329', '10366457', '15707488']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5194771266645148
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4832825638436783
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5158576703824312
- Mean Citation Score: 223.32367400000004
- Max Citation Score: 232.0129
- Similarity Product: 193.58950281167031

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

Dataset: test