PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15993062
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["348", "308000"]

Abstract:
The present technology relates to an image sensor, an imaging method, and an electronic apparatus that are capable of improving the image quality. It includes a plurality of signal lines for reading signals from pixels including a photoelectric conversion element, each of the plurality of signal lines being provided for one column of pixels, and a fixing unit configured to fix the potential of the plurality of signal lines to a predetermined potential, is started. The fixing unit fixes the potential of the plurality of signal lines before an operation of resetting the pixel. It is possible to fix the potential of the signal line to a predetermined potential before reading of the signal from the pixel, and to prevent the image quality from degrading due to the discrepancy in the potential when the reading is started.

Claim (Index 15):
An electronic apparatus, comprising:\n an imaging device including:\n a first pixel including:\n a first photodiode having a first light sensitivity; and \n a second photodiode having a second light sensitivity which is different than the first light sensitivity; \n \n a second pixel including:\n a third photodiode having a third light sensitivity; and \n a fourth photodiode having a fourth light sensitivity that is different than the third light sensitivity; \n \n a first signal line coupled to the first pixel; \n a second signal line coupled to the second pixel; \n a first control transistor coupled to the first signal line; \n a second control transistor coupled to the first control transistor serially; \n a third control transistor coupled to the second signal line; \n a fourth control transistor coupled to the third control transistor; \n an analog to digital converter coupled to the third and fourth control transistors, \n wherein a gate of the first control transistor is configured to receive a first control signal, and \n wherein a gate of the third control transistor is configured to receive a second control signal that is different than the first control signal; and \n a signal processing unit coupled to the imaging device.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.33333
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15877693', '15127179', '15445022', '14886984', '15414028']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5836688748680068
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5208807257898158
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5773900599601878
- Mean Citation Score: 243.85853200000005
- Max Citation Score: 333.53574
- Similarity Product: 325.99017999069923

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

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