PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15917345
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["348", "301000"]

Abstract:
An imaging device includes a plurality of pixels each including a plurality of avalanche photodiodes, a setting unit configured to set the plurality of avalanche photodiodes to an active state or an inactive state separately, and a counter circuit that counts and outputs number of photons determined by the avalanche photodiode(s) set to the active state out of the plurality of avalanche photodiodes, wherein the imaging device is configured to change the number of avalanche photodiodes set to the active state out of the plurality of avalanche photodiodes in accordance with brightness of an object.

Claim (Index 10):
The imaging device according to  claim 1 , wherein the number of avalanche photodiodes set to the active state out of the plurality of avalanche photodiodes is same in the plurality of pixels.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 21.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.08163
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11641965', '12876263', '14680906', '10836896', '12351033']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6186885995890441
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4991111311452259
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6067308527446623
- Mean Citation Score: 233.933142
- Max Citation Score: 253.32837
- Similarity Product: 206.02038539868056

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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