PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15944203
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["348", "294000"]

Abstract:
An image sensing apparatus comprises: a pixel unit; a generator that generates and outputs a plurality of reference signals having different slopes from each other that increase in proportion to elapsation of time; a selector that selects one of the plurality of reference signals; and an analog-to-digital converter that converts an analog signal outputted from the pixel unit of an image sensor to a digital signal using the reference signal selected by the selector, wherein the generator generates the plurality of reference signals in parallel, and in a case where an analog signal of a reset level is outputted from the pixel unit, the selector changes the reference signal selected from the plurality of reference signals each time the selected reference signal exceeds the analog signal.

Claim (Index 6):
The image sensing apparatus according to  claim 5 , further comprising an adder that subtracts a digital signal of the reset level converted by the analog-to-digital converter from a digital signal obtained by converting an image signal outputted as an analog signal from the pixel unit by the analog-to-digital converter,\n wherein the generator further generates and outputs a fixed reference signal of a predetermined level, upon converting the image signal by the analog-to-digital converter, the amplifier uses a first gain among the plurality of gains in a case where the fixed reference signal does not exceed the image signal, and uses a second gain larger than the first gain among the plurality of gains in a case where the fixed reference signal exceeds the image signal, and wherein the adder subtracts the digital signal of the reset level which has been amplified by a same gain used at a time of converting the image signal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.31034
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15446833', '12052399', '13940391', '13031541', '15173249']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5857974732263181
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4904407207938728
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5762617979830736
- Mean Citation Score: 219.049134
- Max Citation Score: 225.61249
- Similarity Product: 176.67690088557006

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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