PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16055509
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["348", "301000"]

Abstract:
An imaging device includes a pixel region in which light sensing pixels are grouped into pixel-units that each include multiple pixels, each column including pixels from at least two of the pixel-units. Each of the pixel-units is connected, via a corresponding readout line, to a corresponding readout unit configured to perform analog-to-digital conversion on pixel signals output thereto. A scanning unit that extends in a column direction is configured to select pixels for readout by applying row scanning pulses to scan lines connected to rows. A scanning unit that extends in a row direction for applying readout-enabling scan pulses to lines connected to columns is omitted. Those pixels that are selected for readout by one of the row scanning pulses are read out independently of any enabling pulses applied to lines connected to columns.

Claim (Index 10):
The imaging device of  claim 9 , wherein each of the plurality of pixels further comprises a fourth switching element disposed between the sensing element and a second reset potential line, the third switching element being configured to control starting of a charge integrating period in the sensing element.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.97222
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14767055', '15445669', '15868128', '15907440', '12433711']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6678422392367446
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5532274169640058
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6563807570094707
- Mean Citation Score: 289.832016
- Max Citation Score: 416.54233
- Similarity Product: 376.75305642135737

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