PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15872986
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["348", "313000"]

Abstract:
An example imaging system includes a plurality of pixel circuits each having a photodiode, a biasing circuit and a charge-to-voltage converter. The photodiode is configured to generate charges in response to light or radiation. The biasing circuit includes an operational amplifier having an input signal port for receiving a bias reference signal which controls a bias current flowing through an internal circuit of the operational amplifier. The charge-to-voltage converter is configured to accumulate the charges drained by the biasing circuit and convert the accumulated charges into a corresponding output voltage.

Claim (Index 7):
The imaging system of  claim 1 , further comprising:\n a first processing circuit configured to:\n acquire a first signal sample by reading an output voltage generated by a charge-to-voltage converter in a first pixel circuit among the plurality of the pixels circuits before resetting the charge-to-voltage converter in the first pixel circuit; and \n acquire a second signal sample by reading an output voltage generated by a charge-to-voltage converter in a second pixel circuit among the plurality of the pixels circuits before resetting first charge-to-voltage converter in the second pixel circuit; and \n a second processing circuit configured to:\n acquire a first reset sample by reading the output voltage generated by the first charge-to-voltage converter in the first pixel circuit after resetting the first charge-to-voltage converter in the first pixel circuit; and \n acquire a second reset sample by reading the output voltage generated by the charge-to-voltage converter in the second pixel circuit after resetting the charge-to-voltage converter in the second pixel circuit, wherein:\n the first pixel circuit is arranged in an m th  row and an n th  column of the pixel array, m and n being positive integers; and \n the second pixel circuit is arranged in an (m+1) th  row and the n th  column of the pixel array.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.66667
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15176355', '14418955', '10813073', '14189249', '15674285']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.634535245064846
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.50446883139389
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6215286036977505
- Mean Citation Score: 240.56109
- Max Citation Score: 312.61395
- Similarity Product: 298.49710663676257

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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