PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15861442
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["348", "241000"]

Abstract:
A method, apparatus and system are described providing a high dynamic range pixel. An integration period has multiple sub-integration periods during which charges are accumulated in a photosensor and repeatedly transferred to a storage node, where the charges are accumulated for later transfer to another storage node for output.

Claim (Index 11):
An imager circuit comprising:\n at least one pixel circuit, the at least one pixel circuit comprising\n a photosensor having a first charge storage capacity, the photosensor configured to accumulate charge, \n a storage node having a second charge storage capacity that is greater than the first charge storage capacity, \n a first transistor between the photosensor and the storage node, configured to transfer charge from the photosensor to the storage node, \n a floating diffusion region, and \n a second transistor between the photosensor and the floating diffusion region, configured to transfer charge from the photosensor to the floating diffusion region; and \n a control circuit operably coupled to the at least one pixel circuit, the control circuit configured to\n define a plurality of integration periods during an image capture in which charge produced by the photosensor in each of the integration periods is transferred from the photosensor and successively accumulated, and \n operate at least one of the first transistor and the second transistor to transfer charge produced by the photosensor during the integration periods to the floating diffusion region.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.325
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15231287', '11511310', '13216664', '13920677', '12232994']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6852785600919593
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5371565591175618
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6704663599945196
- Mean Citation Score: 343.61040599999984
- Max Citation Score: 370.77084
- Similarity Product: 355.194090577662

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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