PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15896609
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-02
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["250", "208100"]

Abstract:
A pixel array uses two sets of pixels to provide accurate exposure control. One set of pixels provide continuous output signals for automatic light control (ALC) as the other set integrates and captures an image. ALC pixels allow monitoring of multiple pixels of an array to obtain sample data indicating the amount of light reaching the array, while allowing the other pixels to provide proper image data. A small percentage of the pixels in an array is replaced with ALC pixels and the array has two reset lines for each row; one line controls the reset for the image capture pixels while the other line controls the reset for the ALC pixels. In the columns, at least one extra control signal is used for the sampling of the reset level for the ALC pixels, which happens later than the sampling of the reset level for the image capture pixels.

Claim (Index 1):
An image processing system, comprising:\n an imager structure including an array of pixels arranged in rows and columns, at least one row in the array comprising:\n a plurality of pixels for providing image capture signals, each pixel in the plurality of pixels configured to transfer charge to a corresponding charge storage region after an integration period, and \n at least one automatic light control (ALC) pixel for providing a light control pixel signal, the at least one ALC pixel configured to transfer charge to a corresponding charge storage region during charge integration; and \n at least one processor configured to\u2014\n for each column of the pixel array including one or more ALC pixels, compare the light control pixel signal to a predetermined voltage level, and \n determine a time interval for the integration period based, at least in part, on a comparison of the light control pixel signal to the predetermined voltage level.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 88.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.13333
- Patent Class: 250.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14837802', '12481436', '11223045', '13926365', '11417160']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7998146419433216
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5887234055490803
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7787055183038976
- Mean Citation Score: 490.455584
- Max Citation Score: 515.8205
- Similarity Product: 470.95308773189794

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