PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15935043
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["348", "222100"]

Abstract:
A distributed, parallel, image capture and processing architecture provides significant advantages over prior art systems. A very large array of computational circuits—in some embodiments, matching the size of the pixel array—is distributed around, within, or beneath the pixel array of an image sensor. Each computational circuit is dedicated to, and in some embodiments is physically proximal to, one, two, or more associated pixels. Each computational circuit is operative to perform computations on one, two, or more pixel values generated by its associated pixels. The computational circuits all perform the same operation(s), in parallel. In this manner, a very large number of pixel-level operations are performed in parallel, physically and electrically near the pixels. This obviates the need to transfer very large amounts of pixel data from a pixel array to a CPU/memory, for at least many pixel-level image processing operations, thus alleviating the significant high-speed performance constraints placed on modern image sensors.

Claim (Index 41):
A control system, comprising:\n a plurality of imaging circuits, each imaging circuit comprising\n an array of pixels, each pixel operative to generate a pixel value in response to incident photons; \n an array of computational circuits operating in parallel, each computational circuit proximal to one or more associated pixels in said array of pixels and operative to perform one or more computations on one, two, or more pixel values generated by said associated pixels; \n a controller operative to receive and further process image-processed information from each imaging circuit, and operative to control one or more devices in response to the information.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.85417
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['10634302', '11545063', '09659355', '12823477', '10384532']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5838506776657023
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4798420227959921
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5734498121787313
- Mean Citation Score: 190.456942
- Max Citation Score: 191.61203
- Similarity Product: 148.9358280396974

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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