PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15997851
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-06
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["348", "046000"]

Abstract:
Depth sensing imaging pixels include pairs of left and right pixels forming an asymmetrical angular response to incident light. A single microlens is positioned above each pair of left and right pixels. Each microlens spans across each of the pairs of pixels in a horizontal direction. Each microlens has a length that is substantially twice the length of either the left or right pixel in the horizontal direction; and each microlens has a width that is substantially the same as a width of either the left or right pixel in a vertical direction. The horizontal and vertical directions are horizontal and vertical directions of a planar image array. A light pipe in each pixel is used to improve light concentration and reduce cross talk.

Claim (Index 15):
An image sensor comprising:\n a pixel pair that includes a first pixel and a second pixel, wherein the first pixel and the second pixel have asymmetrical angular responses to incident light; at least one color filter element of a single color, wherein the at least one color filter element covers both the first and second pixels in the pixel pair; a microlens that spans the pixel pair, wherein the microlens is formed over the at least one color filter element; and image processing circuitry configured to:\n obtain an image depth signal by using subtraction to determine a difference between an output signal from the first pixel of the pixel pair and an output signal from the second pixel of the pixel pair; and \n determine a distance to an imaged object based on the image depth signal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 94.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.14754
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13404319', '13728086', '15375654', '14966045', '13188389']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6587139762627147
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5121334914659648
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6440559277830397
- Mean Citation Score: 289.851844
- Max Citation Score: 330.5925299999999
- Similarity Product: 314.892197889431

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