PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16055927
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["250", "208100"]

Abstract:
A solid-state imaging device comprises a photodetecting section, an unnecessary carrier capture section, and a vertical shift register. The unnecessary carrier capture section has carrier capture regions arranged in a region between the photodetecting section and the vertical shift register for respective rows. Each of the carrier capture regions includes a transistor and a photodiode. The transistor has one terminal connected to the photodiode and the other terminal connected to a charge elimination line. The charge elimination line is short-circuited to a reference potential line.

Claim (Index 12):
A method of manufacturing a solid-state imaging device including:\n a photodetecting section having M\u00d7N pixels (each of M and N being an integer of 2 or more), each including a first photodiode and a first switch circuit having one terminal connected to the first photodiode, two-dimensionally arrayed in M rows and N columns; N readout lines provided for the respective columns and connected to the other terminals of the first switch circuits included in the pixels of the corresponding columns; a readout circuit section connected to the N readout lines; and a shift register, juxtaposed with the photodetecting section in a row direction, for controlling an open/closed state of the first switch circuits for each row, the method comprising: when manufacturing at least the photodetecting section by a photolithography technique, performing joint exposure, wherein in performing the joint exposure, a line passing through a region of the first photodiode is set as a boundary of the joint exposure.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 27.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0
- Patent Class: 250.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14897144', '13979504', '12679750', '15795470', '14895261']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7450077207231939
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5512104652448214
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7256279951753566
- Mean Citation Score: 333.1824880000001
- Max Citation Score: 418.81873
- Similarity Product: 399.8518554520661

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

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