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 1):
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 and wherein the first and second pixels are covered by color filter element material of a single color; a microlens that spans the pixel pair, wherein the color filter element material is interposed between the microlens and the first and second pixels; 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): 0.6587170387380136
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5119493335073595
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6440402682149482
- Mean Citation Score: 289.851844
- Max Citation Score: 330.5925299999999
- Similarity Product: 316.78979467971675

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