PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15976399
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["348", "135000"]

Abstract:
A photoelectric conversion apparatus and an imaging system with reduced dark current noise while suppressed pixel size are provided. Each pixel has a photoelectric conversion unit and a diode. The photoelectric conversion unit has a first electrode layer, a second electrode layer between the first electrode layer and a semiconductor substrate, and a photoelectric conversion layer between the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer. A diode has a first impurity diffused portion of a first conductivity type and a second impurity diffused portion of a second conductivity type. The second electrode layer is connected to the first impurity diffused portion. The controlling unit applies a voltage to set the first impurity diffused portion and the second impurity diffused portion into a forwardly biased state and a voltage to set the first impurity diffused portion and the second impurity diffused portion into a reversely biased state to the diode.

Claim (Index 4):
An apparatus according to  claim 2 , wherein the controlling unit is connected to the second impurity diffused portion and resets signal charges accumulated in the second electrode layer by setting the diode into the forwardly biased state.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.98113
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15288800', '16076632', '15351965', '15809899', '15945790']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6634281198385794
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4913183645483333
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6462171443095548
- Mean Citation Score: 233.8581
- Max Citation Score: 236.13574
- Similarity Product: 179.76932898750186

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

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