PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15964108
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["348", "296000"]

Abstract:
A method for driving an imaging device which includes unit pixel cells each including a first electrode, a second electrode, and a photoelectric conversion layer between the first electrode and second electrode, the photoelectric conversion layer having a photocurrent characteristic including a first voltage range, a second voltage range, and a third voltage range where an absolute value of a rate of change of the current density relative to the bias voltage is less than in the first voltage range and the second voltage range, the method including supplying a first voltage to the second electrode in a first period, and supplying a second voltage different from the first voltage to the second electrode in a second period different from the first period such that the bias voltage applied to the photoelectric conversion layer falls within the third voltage range.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for driving an imaging device, the imaging device including unit pixel cells each including a first electrode, a second electrode facing the first electrode, and a photoelectric conversion layer between the first electrode and second electrode, wherein the photoelectric conversion layer has a photocurrent characteristic between a bias voltage applied to the photoelectric conversion layer and a current density of a current flowing through the photoelectric conversion layer, the photocurrent characteristic including a first voltage range where an absolute value of the current density increases as the bias voltage increases in a reverse direction, a second voltage range where the current density increases as the bias voltage increases in a forward direction, and a third voltage range where an absolute value of a rate of change of the current density relative to the bias voltage is less than in the first voltage range and the second voltage range, the third voltage range being between the first voltage range and the second voltage range, the method comprising:\n supplying a first voltage to the second electrode in a first period, and supplying a second voltage that is different from the first voltage to the second electrode in a second period different from the first period such that the bias voltage applied to the photoelectric conversion layer falls within the third voltage range.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.64286
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15719456', '15963410', '13920156', '15872016', '15876262']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6559559868080058
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5149331340357192
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6418537015307771
- Mean Citation Score: 277.471176
- Max Citation Score: 329.01956
- Similarity Product: 276.8739356147528

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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