PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16503896
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-07
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["348", "308000"]

Abstract:
Pixel arrangements in time-of-flight sensors are presented that include sensing elements that establish charges related to incident light, charge storage elements that accumulate integrated charges transferred from the sensing elements, and diffusion nodes configured to establish measurement voltages representative of the integrated charges that are dumped from the charge storage elements. The pixel arrangement includes analog domain output circuitry comprising a measurement capacitance element that stores the measurement voltage, and a reset capacitance element that stores a reset voltage established at the diffusion node during a reset phase performed prior to a measurement phase. The analog domain output circuitry subtracts the stored reset voltage from the stored measurement voltage for processing into a pixel output voltage that at least partially reduces readout voltage uncertainty of the pixel arrangement.

Claim (Index 12):
The ToF imaging sensor of  claim 9 , wherein the readout voltage uncertainty for each of the differential pixel structures comprises a kTC noise associated with a readout capacitance of the associated diffusion nodes.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15385198', '15385373', '14950313', '14562380', '15196615']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6000445917101391
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5383111796140422
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5938712505005295
- Mean Citation Score: 236.224242
- Max Citation Score: 364.4262
- Similarity Product: 362.4969403283357

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

Dataset: test