PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15742112
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["257", "435000"]

Abstract:
An optical sensor based on CMOS technology including a semiconductor substrate; an array of photocells, each of which includes a respective photodetector active area that is formed in and exposed on a given planar surface of said semiconductor substrate; a multilayer structure that includes metal and dielectric layers and is formed on the given planar surface; and light shielding means formed in or on the multilayer structure; wherein each photodetector active area is associated with a corresponding optical path extending through the light shielding means and directed towards said photodetector active area. All the photocells are connected in parallel to provide an overall output electrical signal related to incident light impinging on the photodetector active areas. All the optical paths are parallel to a given direction thereby causing all the photodetector active areas to be reached by incident light with incident direction parallel to said given direction.

Claim (Index 1):
An optical sensor based on CMOS technology and comprising:\n a semiconductor substrate; an array of photocells, each of which:\n includes a respective photodetector active area that is formed in the semiconductor substrate and is exposed on a given planar surface of said semiconductor substrate; and \n is designed to provide a respective output electrical signal related to incident light impinging on the respective photodetector active area; \n a multilayer structure that includes metal and dielectric layers and is formed on the given planar surface of the semiconductor substrate; and light shielding means that are formed in or on the multilayer structure and are made of one or more materials reflecting and/or absorbing incident light impinging on said light shielding means; wherein each photodetector active area is associated with a corresponding optical path extending through the light shielding means and directed towards said photodetector active area to allow incident light with incident direction falling within a given direction range to reach said photodetector active area; wherein all the photocells are connected in parallel to provide an overall output electrical signal related to incident light impinging on all the photodetector active areas; and wherein all the optical paths are parallel to a given direction thereby causing all the photodetector active areas to be reached by incident light with incident direction parallel to said given direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.03947
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11658516', '11345055', '10661709', '11840266', '14161053']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9077561348755931
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4613705105502915
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8631175724430631
- Mean Citation Score: 154.97579199999996
- Max Citation Score: 162.81592
- Similarity Product: 130.67288824717042

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

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