PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15969372
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["348", "301000"]

Abstract:
Disclosed herein is an image pickup circuit including: amplifying means for amplifying a charge corresponding to an amount of light received by a photodetector, and outputting a pixel signal; ramp signal generating means for generating a ramp signal whose voltage drops with a fixed slope from a predetermined initial voltage; and comparing means for comparing the pixel signal output by the amplifying means with the ramp signal output by the ramp signal generating means. A reference potential of the pixel signal output by the amplifying means and a reference potential of the ramp signal output by the ramp signal generating means are at a same level.

Claim (Index 5):
The image pickup circuit according to  claim 4 , wherein said gain changing means and said offset means use a common constant-current circuit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.24
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12150004', '15058845', '15442566', '13781043', '14716528']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6864851844949417
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5406884881425263
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6719055148597002
- Mean Citation Score: 316.1618640000001
- Max Citation Score: 388.46317
- Similarity Product: 351.73360154851565

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