PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15939740
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["348", "076000"]

Abstract:
An imaging device includes: a first chip including a light receiving unit, and a read circuit; a second chip including a timing control circuit, an A/D conversion circuit, and a cable transmission circuit; and a connection unit configured to connect the first and the second chips. The read circuit includes a column read circuit and a horizontal selection circuit, and a vertical selection circuit. The connection unit of the first chip is provided in a first area along a side of the rectangular light receiving unit, and in a second area adjacent to the column read circuit, the horizontal selection circuit, and the vertical selection circuit. The connection unit of the second chip is provided in a third area around the timing control circuit, the A/D conversion circuit, and the cable transmission circuit and in a fourth area adjacent to the timing control circuit and the A/D conversion circuit.

Claim (Index 1):
An imaging device comprising:\n a first chip including\n a light receiving unit including pixels arranged in a two-dimensional matrix and configured to generate and output an imaging signal that corresponds to a received amount of light, and \n a read circuit configured to sequentially select a predetermined pixel from the pixels and read the imaging signal output from the selected pixel; \n a second chip connected to a back side of a light incidence surface of the first chip by being laminated along a direction perpendicular to a surface where the pixels of the light receiving unit are arranged, the second chip including\n a timing control circuit configured to control a timing at which the read circuit reads the imaging signal output from the pixel selected, \n an A/D conversion circuit configured to conduct A/D conversion on an analog signal output from the first chip, and \n a cable transmission circuit configured to transmit a digital signal output from the A/D conversion circuit to a transmission cable; and \n a connection unit configured to electrically connect the first chip and the second chip, wherein the light receiving unit is rectangular, the read circuit includes\n a column read circuit and a horizontal selection circuit provided along one side of the rectangular light receiving unit, and \n a vertical selection circuit provided along one side of the rectangular light receiving unit perpendicular to the side along which the column read circuit and the horizontal selection circuit are arranged, \n the connection unit of the first chip is provided in a first area along a side of the rectangular light receiving unit along which the column read circuit, the horizontal selection circuit, and the vertical selection circuit are not provided, and in a second area that is adjacent to the column read circuit, the horizontal selection circuit, and the vertical selection circuit, the connection unit of the second chip is provided in a third area around the timing control circuit, the A/D conversion circuit, and the cable transmission circuit and in a fourth area that is adjacent to the timing control circuit and the A/D conversion circuit, and the first area and the third area are provided by being overlapped with each other and the second area and the fourth area are provided by being overlapped with each other in a direction perpendicular to the surface where the pixels of the light receiving unit are provided.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.36735
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14186778', '13273887', '15572573', '13920580', '15799003']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5624329332733833
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4614724911720007
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.552336889063245
- Mean Citation Score: 157.1411
- Max Citation Score: 159.34651000000005
- Similarity Product: 132.17866449026943

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

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