PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15945053
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["348", "294000"]

Abstract:
A solid-state imaging device includes a plurality of pixels and a pixel control circuit. The pixel control circuit is configured to control the signal transfer circuit so that an imaging operation is performed simultaneously in the plurality of pixel group units and a plurality of imaging operations are performed in each of the plurality of pixel group units. In each of the plurality of imaging operations, an imaging signal output from at least one of two or more photoelectric conversion elements included in each of the plurality of pixel group units is transferred to one of two or more memories included in each of the plurality of pixel group units. Each of the two or more memories included in each of the plurality of pixel group units holds the imaging signal in a predetermined order.

Claim (Index 9):
The solid-state imaging device according to  claim 4 ,\n wherein the photoelectric conversion element is configured to output charge as the imaging signal, the signal transfer circuit includes\n a floating diffusion configured to hold a voltage based on the charge output from the photoelectric conversion element; \n a transfer transistor configured to transfer the charge output from the photoelectric conversion element to the floating diffusion; \n a memory output circuit configured to output the imaging signal based on the voltage held in the floating diffusion to the memory; and \n a first connection transistor connected to the memory output circuit and the memory, the first connection transistor configured to switch between a state in which the memory output circuit and the memory are electrically connected to each other and a state in which the memory output circuit and the memory are electrically isolated from each other \n the solid-state imaging device further includes a second connection transistor connected to two or more floating diffusions included in each of the plurality of pixel group units, the second connection transistor configured to switch between a state in which the two or more floating diffusions are electrically connected to each other and a state in which the two or more floating diffusions are electrically isolated from each other, the pixel control circuit is configured to electrically connect the memory output circuit and the memory to each other using the first connection transistor when the imaging signals output from the photoelectric conversion elements are added, the pixel control circuit is configured to transfer the charge output from the photoelectric conversion element to the floating diffusion using the transfer transistor after the memory output circuit and the memory are electrically connected to each other, and the pixel control circuit is configured to electrically connect the two or more floating diffusions using the second connection transistor after the charge output from the photoelectric conversion element is transferred to the floating diffusion.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.64151
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13788951', '13515445', '15702097', '13807065', '14528753']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.69057143300923
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5157693209237368
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6730912218006807
- Mean Citation Score: 301.617734
- Max Citation Score: 314.99573
- Similarity Product: 237.50593808904168

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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