PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16166442
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["348", "294000"]

Abstract:
An image sensor may include an array of pixels arranged in rows and columns. The array of pixels may operate in a global shutter mode. Each pixel in the array of pixels may have a floating diffusion node for storing charge and may include an active reset circuit that acts as an inverting amplifier and that resets the floating diffusion node to a predetermined reference voltage, which eliminates the need for correlated double sampling readout. A sampling circuit may be coupled to the active reset circuit. The sampling circuit may sample and store signals that correspond to the amount of charge stored at the floating diffusion node. The sampling circuit may pass stored signals to a column sensing line through an amplifier. The amplifier may include a source follower transistor that provides proportional amplification to the stored signals and may include an active reset circuit for resetting the sampling circuit.

Claim (Index 20):
The imaging system defined in  claim 17 , each imaging pixel in the array of imaging pixels further comprising:\n a pre-charge transistor, wherein the source terminal of the p-channel transistor is coupled to a voltage supply through the pre-charge transistor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.13514
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15095304', '14608366', '14554914', '14877722', '15644957']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6483184085956492
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5173329621286642
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6352198639489506
- Mean Citation Score: 279.596596
- Max Citation Score: 330.8926
- Similarity Product: 266.76195477936267

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

Dataset: test