PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15980327
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["348", "302000"]

Abstract:
An image sensor pixel may include a photodiode, a floating diffusion, and a transfer gate. Column readout circuitry coupled to the image sensor pixel via a column line. The column readout circuitry may include sample and hold circuitry, comparison circuitry, residual measurement and summation circuitry, counter circuitry, analog-to-digital conversion circuitry, and digital summation circuitry. Column readout circuitry is configured to perform readout operations on a pixel image signal generated for a single frame in one or more portions, thereby extending the dynamic range of the imaging system without modifying pixel structure to generate high-dynamic range images within the single frame.

Claim (Index 17):
The system defined in  claim 16 , wherein the readout circuitry includes counter circuitry configured to generate a count value based on the comparison output.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.75
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14468242', '14667436', '14185614', '14459068', '15251950']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6446350860092628
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.487077583018124
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6288793357101489
- Mean Citation Score: 194.754186
- Max Citation Score: 196.14337
- Similarity Product: 137.9776779850018

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