PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16393501
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-04
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["348", "308000"]

Abstract:
The present technology relates to signal processing device and method, an imaging element, and an electronic device capable of reducing a rise of costs. A signal processing device according to the present technology includes a measurement unit that performs measurement of a length of a period from an input start of a signal to a change of a value of the signal a plurality of times, retains measured values obtained by the measurement performed the plurality of times, sets an initial value of the measurement on the basis of any one of a plurality of the retained measured values, and performs the measurement by using the initial value. The present technology is applicable to an electronic circuit such as a flip-flop circuit and an A/D conversion unit, an imaging element such as a CMOS image sensor, and an electronic device such as a digital still camera, for example.

Claim (Index 31):
The signal processing device according to  claim 23 , wherein the lower bit gray code latch supplies a carry signal to the higher bit binary counter in synchronization with a clock signal provided to one of the latches of the lower bit gray code latch via a signal line.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.30435
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15514890', '14396912', '14375864', '12127384', '13637870']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6737351261915172
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5343061171366005
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6597922252860255
- Mean Citation Score: 286.4372180000001
- Max Citation Score: 372.52048
- Similarity Product: 284.4883871224976

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