PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15873337
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["257", "229000"]

Abstract:
To prevent the black dot phenomenon from occurring in a differential amplification-type solid-state image sensor. A signal-side amplifier transistor generates an output voltage corresponding to a signal current corresponding to one of a pair of differential input voltages by supplying the signal current from an output node to a common-phase node. A reference-side amplifier transistor supplies a reference current corresponding to the other one of the pair of differential input voltages to the common-phase node. A constant current source constantly controls a sum of the signal current and the reference current to be merged at the common-phase node. A bypass control unit connects the output node and the common-phase node and supplies the signal current having a value corresponding to a predetermined limit voltage to the common-phase node in a case in which the output voltage reaches the limit voltage.

Claim (Index 7):
The imaging device according to  claim 1 , wherein the first amplification transistor and the second amplification transistor are coupled to a current source.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 45.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.37705
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15738614', '10216740', '12533446', '11123042', '12107208']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9291377795828192
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5263077990220465
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8888547815267419
- Mean Citation Score: 244.737648
- Max Citation Score: 345.82565
- Similarity Product: 282.63900315323474

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

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