PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15758387
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["257", "432000"]

Abstract:
An image sensor may include pixels having nested sub-pixels. A pixel with nested sub-pixels may include an inner sub-pixel that has either an elliptical or a rectangular light collecting area. The inner sub-pixel may be formed in a substrate and may be immediately surrounded by a sub-pixel group that includes one or more sub-pixels. The inner sub-pixel may have a light collecting area at a surface that is less sensitive than the light collecting area of the one or more outer sub-pixel groups. Microlenses may be formed over the nested sub-pixels, to direct light away from the inner sub-pixel group to the outer sub-pixel groups in nested sub-pixels. A color filter of a single color may be formed over the nested sub-pixels. Hybrid color filters having a single color filter region over the inner sub-pixel and a portion of the one or more outer sub-pixel groups may also be used.

Claim (Index 17):
The image pixel defined in  claim 16 , wherein the at least one microlens comprises eight microlenses that are each formed over a respective one of the four light collecting regions and the four additional light collecting regions.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.39394
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15799833', '15145374', '15145558', '15184170', '14633837']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9383188409858368
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5571492094092674
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.9002018778281798
- Mean Citation Score: 355.73562400000014
- Max Citation Score: 446.47104
- Similarity Product: 334.0991829042435

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