PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15884726
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["348", "300000"]

Abstract:
In an image sensor according to related art, charge information cannot be read at the same time from a pair of photoelectric conversion elements placed corresponding to one microlens. According to one embodiment, an image sensor includes a first photoelectric conversion element and a second photoelectric conversion element placed corresponding to one microlens, a first transfer transistor placed corresponding to the first photoelectric conversion element and a second transfer transistor placed corresponding to the second photoelectric conversion element, a read timing signal line that supplies a common read timing signal to the first transfer transistor and the second transfer transistor, a first output line that outputs a signal of the first photoelectric conversion element to the outside, and a second output line that outputs a signal of the second photoelectric conversion element to the outside.

Claim (Index 1):
An image sensor comprising:\n a first photoelectric conversion element; a second photoelectric conversion element that is adjacent to the first photoelectric conversion element and receives light entering through a microlens placed in common with the first photoelectric conversion element; a first transfer transistor that reads charge from the first photoelectric conversion element; a second transfer transistor that reads charge from the second photoelectric conversion element; a first read timing signal line that supplies a first read timing signal being common to the first transfer transistor and the second transfer transistor; a first output line that outputs an output signal generated based on charge read through the first transfer transistor; a second output line that outputs an output signal generated based on charge read through the second transfer transistor; a first amplification transistor that amplifies a first voltage generated by charge output through the first transfer transistor and outputs it to the first output line; a second amplification transistor that amplifies a second voltage generated by charge output through the second transfer transistor and outputs it to the second output line; a fifth photoelectric conversion element; a sixth photoelectric conversion element that is adjacent to the fifth photoelectric conversion element and receives light entering through a microlens placed in common with the fifth photoelectric conversion element; a fifth transfer transistor that reads charge from the fifth photoelectric conversion element, and outputs a fifth voltage generated by the read charge to the second amplification transistor; a sixth transfer transistor that reads charge from the sixth photoelectric conversion element; and a third read timing signal line that supplies a third read timing signal being common to the fifth transfer transistor and the sixth transfer transistor and enabled at different timing from the first read timing signal, wherein the fifth voltage generated by charge output through the fifth transfer transistor is amplified by the second amplification transistor and output to the second output line, and the fifth photoelectric conversion element is allocated line symmetry with respect to the second photoelectric conversion element via the second output line.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.93878
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15364482', '15497450', '13944497', '12949221', '15574540']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6444696183318154
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4973008130769982
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6297527378063337
- Mean Citation Score: 256.87854000000004
- Max Citation Score: 272.95142000000004
- Similarity Product: 219.04886971079708

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

Dataset: test