PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15969372
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["348", "301000"]

Abstract:
Disclosed herein is an image pickup circuit including: amplifying means for amplifying a charge corresponding to an amount of light received by a photodetector, and outputting a pixel signal; ramp signal generating means for generating a ramp signal whose voltage drops with a fixed slope from a predetermined initial voltage; and comparing means for comparing the pixel signal output by the amplifying means with the ramp signal output by the ramp signal generating means. A reference potential of the pixel signal output by the amplifying means and a reference potential of the ramp signal output by the ramp signal generating means are at a same level.

Claim (Index 4):
The image pickup circuit according to  claim 2 ,\n wherein said ramp signal is in a form having a first section in which the voltage drops with the fixed slope from a first initial voltage and a second section in which the voltage drops with the fixed slope from a second initial voltage, and said ramp signal generating means further includes: normal ramp signal generating means for generating a ramp signal in which said first initial voltage and said second initial voltage are equal to each other; and offset means for superimposing an offset component for making said first initial voltage higher than said second initial voltage onto said ramp signal at an offset time when said first initial voltage and said second initial voltage are offset from each other.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.24
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12150004', '15058845', '15442566', '13781043', '14716528']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6854732791859368
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5417599217849669
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6711019434458398
- Mean Citation Score: 316.1618640000001
- Max Citation Score: 388.46317
- Similarity Product: 384.322618529765

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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