PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15944203
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["348", "294000"]

Abstract:
An image sensing apparatus comprises: a pixel unit; a generator that generates and outputs a plurality of reference signals having different slopes from each other that increase in proportion to elapsation of time; a selector that selects one of the plurality of reference signals; and an analog-to-digital converter that converts an analog signal outputted from the pixel unit of an image sensor to a digital signal using the reference signal selected by the selector, wherein the generator generates the plurality of reference signals in parallel, and in a case where an analog signal of a reset level is outputted from the pixel unit, the selector changes the reference signal selected from the plurality of reference signals each time the selected reference signal exceeds the analog signal.

Claim (Index 9):
A control method for an image sensing apparatus that comprises a pixel unit; a generator capable of generating and outputting a plurality of reference signals having different slopes from each other that increase in proportion to elapsation of time, a selector that selects one of the plurality of reference signals, and an analog-to-digital converter that converts an analog signal outputted from the pixel unit to a digital signal using the reference signal selected by the selector, the method comprising, in a case where an analog signal of a reset level is outputted from the pixel unit,\n generating the plurality of reference signals in parallel; changing a reference signal selected from the plurality of reference signals; and converting the analog signal of the reset level to a digital signal using each of the selected reference signals, wherein the reference signal is changed each time the selected reference signal exceeds the analog signal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.31034
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15446833', '12052399', '13940391', '13031541', '15173249']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5885280532313202
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4786250310470666
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5775377510128948
- Mean Citation Score: 219.049134
- Max Citation Score: 225.61249
- Similarity Product: 200.1543504519325

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

Dataset: test