PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15986363
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["348", "294000"]

Abstract:
An imaging device includes: a semiconductor substrate; pixels arranged two-dimensionally along row and column directions on the substrate; and one or more interconnection layers located on the semiconductor substrate, including a first signal line extending along the column direction and a second signal line to which a multi-level signal is applied. A first pixel includes: a photoelectric converter; a charge storage region; a first interconnection electrically connected to the charge storage region; and a first transistor that includes a first diffusion layer electrically connected to the first signal line and a second diffusion layer electrically connected to the second signal line and that outputs a signal to the first signal line. The first and second signal lines and the first interconnection are arranged in a first interconnection layer. The second signal line is located between the first interconnection and the first signal line, viewed perpendicularly to the substrate.

Claim (Index 11):
The imaging device according to  claim 1 , wherein\n a first voltage is applied to the second signal line in a reset period in which the charge storage region is reset, and a second voltage different from the first voltage is applied to the second signal line in a readout period in which the signal is read out from the charge storage region.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.68333
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14955086', '12720872', '15902559', '14322135', '15445022']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6518640774198013
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4937688034693464
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6360545500247559
- Mean Citation Score: 210.68926800000003
- Max Citation Score: 219.56656
- Similarity Product: 153.48134442104342

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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