PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15864164
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["348", "294000"]

Abstract:
An imaging device may have an array of image sensor pixels. Each image sensor pixel of the array of image sensor pixels may have split photodiodes that are symmetric about a shared floating diffusion region. The floating diffusion region may be coupled to each of the photodiodes. Each of the split photodiodes and the floating diffusion region may generate charge in response to light incident on the image sensor pixel. The split photodiodes and the floating diffusion region may be covered by a microlens. The charge generated by the photodiodes and the floating diffusion region may be compared and utilized by the imaging device in phase detection applications. The image sensor pixel may also include a dual conversion gain capacitor and a gain select transistor to produce high dynamic range (HDR) images.

Claim (Index 18):
The method defined in  claim 17 , further comprising:\n after reading out the charge generated by the floating diffusion region, resetting the floating diffusion region to a first reset value; reading out the first reset value; after reading out the first reset value, resetting the floating diffusion region to a second reset value associated with the first photosensitive region; reading out the second reset value; after reading out the charge generated by the first photosensitive region, resetting the floating diffusion region to a third reset value associated with the second photosensitive region; and reading out the third reset value.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 12.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.20312
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15410937', '14723233', '15184390', '15410939', '15333407']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6176592873236746
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5291821515604683
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6088115737473541
- Mean Citation Score: 300.697352
- Max Citation Score: 335.2265
- Similarity Product: 226.43086646440625

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