PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15957036
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2019-10
Patent Classification: ["257", "432000"]

Abstract:
An image sensor may include an array of pixels. Each pixel may have one or more photosensitive areas. Incident light may pass through a microlens and a color filter element to reach the one or more photosensitive areas. In some pixels, the microlens may be shifted relative to the photosensitive area to account for the chief ray angle of the incident light. In some cases, the microlenses may be toroidal microlenses with openings. The openings may be shifted relative to the center of the microlens based on the wavelength of light transmitted by the color filter element for the pixel. The greater the wavelength of light transmitted by the color filter element for a given pixel, the more the opening of the microlens may be shifted towards the center of the array of pixels.

Claim (Index 9):
An image sensor comprising an array of pixels, wherein each pixel in the array of pixels comprises:\n at least one photosensitive area; a color filter formed over the at least one photosensitive area, wherein the color filter is configured to transmit a given type of light; and a microlens having an opening, wherein the microlens has a first geometric center and the opening has a second geometric center, and wherein the second geometric center is shifted relative to the first geometric center based on the given type of light transmitted by the color filter.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.4
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15184170', '15162914', '15719181', '14633837', '15145558']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9019581886862028
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4837534524649386
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8601377150640765
- Mean Citation Score: 215.902878
- Max Citation Score: 222.97003
- Similarity Product: 188.26771742117288

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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