PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15928450
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["348", "216100"]

Abstract:
Various embodiments of the present technology may comprise methods and apparatus for an image sensor capable of simultaneous integration of electrons and holes. According to an exemplary embodiment, the image sensor comprises a backside-illuminated hybrid bonded stacked chip image sensor comprising a pixel circuit array, and each pixel circuit comprising a charge storage capacitor oriented in a vertical direction in a deep trench isolation region. Both the electrons and holes are generated and integrated (collected) in the pixel simultaneously, and the charge storage capacitor is used for storing the signal generated by holes in the high light level illuminated pixels.

Claim (Index 9):
A method for operating an image sensor having a pixel circuit configured to simultaneously integrate electrons and holes, comprising:\n simultaneously integrating electron charge and hole charge in a photodiode; transferring the hole charge to a capacitor after electron charge reaches a predetermined threshold in the photodiode using a charge overflow device; converting the electron charge to an electron-generated output voltage using a first readout circuit; and converting the hole charge to a hole-generated output voltage using a second readout circuit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 12.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.61194
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15419211', '14553822', '15618899', '14183042', '14035794']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6228448592584176
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4820489733465503
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6087652706672309
- Mean Citation Score: 206.637542
- Max Citation Score: 219.77531
- Similarity Product: 171.47265395609497

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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