PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15759963
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["348", "296000"]

Abstract:
Signals representative of total photocharge integrated within respective image-sensor pixels are read out of the pixels after a first exposure interval that constitutes a first fraction of a frame interval. Signals in excess of a threshold level are read out of the pixels after an ensuing second exposure interval that constitutes a second fraction of the frame interval, leaving residual photocharge within the pixels. After a third exposure interval that constitutes a third fraction of the frame interval, signals representative of a combination of at least the residual photocharge and photocharge integrated within the pixels during the third exposure interval are read out of the pixels.

Claim (Index 3):
The method of  claim 1  further comprising generating respective fractional read-out signals representative of the photocharge transferred to the floating diffusion nodes in response the second control signal pulse and generating respective full read-out signals representative of the photocharge transferred to the floating diffusion nodes in response to the first and third control signal pulses, the fractional read-out signals having a maximum valid signal level lower than a maximum valid signal level of the full read-out signals.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 19.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.64286
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14995138', '14616546', '14827838', '15100976', '14772311']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6296329980182501
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5405497341394907
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6207246716303741
- Mean Citation Score: 265.4244
- Max Citation Score: 367.06876
- Similarity Product: 286.81487025790693

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test