PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15861350
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["257", "292000"]

Abstract:
A solid-state image pickup apparatus includes a photoelectric conversion unit, a charge storage unit, and a floating diffusion unit, all disposed on a semiconductor substrate. The solid-state image pickup apparatus further includes a first gate electrode disposed on the semiconductor substrate and extending between the photoelectric conversion unit and charge storage unit, and a second gate electrode disposed on the semiconductor substrate and extending between the charge storage unit and the floating diffusion unit. The solid-state image pickup apparatus further includes a light shielding member including a first part and a second part, wherein the first part is disposed over the charge storage unit and at least over the first gate electrode or the second gate electrode, and the second part is disposed between the first gate electrode and the second gate electrode such that the second part extends from the first part toward a surface of the semiconductor substrate.

Claim (Index 1):
A solid-state image pickup apparatus comprising:\n a photoelectric conversion unit disposed in a semiconductor substrate; a charge storage unit disposed in the semiconductor substrate; a floating diffusion unit disposed in the semiconductor substrate; a first gate electrode disposed above a surface of the semiconductor substrate, and extending over the charge storage unit from between the photoelectric conversion unit and the charge storage unit; a second gate electrode disposed above the surface, and disposed between the charge storage unit and the floating diffusion unit; a plug contacting to the first gate electrode, and disposed on the first gate electrode; and a light shielding member disposed over the first gate electrode and the charge storage unit, disposed between the first gate electrode and the second gate electrode, and having a bottom face, wherein a part of the bottom face disposed between the first gate electrode and the second gate electrode is located closer to the surface than another part of the bottom face disposed over the first gate electrode.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 3.2449
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14493003', '13473442', '14957437', '15382178', '15146728']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9257212237508596
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4931675137012588
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8824658527458996
- Mean Citation Score: 279.837604
- Max Citation Score: 289.48334
- Similarity Product: 281.04524307973384

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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