PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15935043
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["348", "222100"]

Abstract:
A distributed, parallel, image capture and processing architecture provides significant advantages over prior art systems. A very large array of computational circuits—in some embodiments, matching the size of the pixel array—is distributed around, within, or beneath the pixel array of an image sensor. Each computational circuit is dedicated to, and in some embodiments is physically proximal to, one, two, or more associated pixels. Each computational circuit is operative to perform computations on one, two, or more pixel values generated by its associated pixels. The computational circuits all perform the same operation(s), in parallel. In this manner, a very large number of pixel-level operations are performed in parallel, physically and electrically near the pixels. This obviates the need to transfer very large amounts of pixel data from a pixel array to a CPU/memory, for at least many pixel-level image processing operations, thus alleviating the significant high-speed performance constraints placed on modern image sensors.

Claim (Index 25):
The imaging circuit of  claim 24  wherein each combinatorial, sequential, or arithmetic computational circuit, other than those at either end, receives as input the current and previous two pixel values for the associated row or column, and both immediately adjacent rows or columns.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.85417
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10634302', '11545063', '09659355', '12823477', '10384532']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6117597434240474
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4848545459830122
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5990692236799439
- Mean Citation Score: 190.456942
- Max Citation Score: 191.61203
- Similarity Product: 145.21374632095635

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