PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16393501
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-04
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["348", "308000"]

Abstract:
The present technology relates to signal processing device and method, an imaging element, and an electronic device capable of reducing a rise of costs. A signal processing device according to the present technology includes a measurement unit that performs measurement of a length of a period from an input start of a signal to a change of a value of the signal a plurality of times, retains measured values obtained by the measurement performed the plurality of times, sets an initial value of the measurement on the basis of any one of a plurality of the retained measured values, and performs the measurement by using the initial value. The present technology is applicable to an electronic circuit such as a flip-flop circuit and an A/D conversion unit, an imaging element such as a CMOS image sensor, and an electronic device such as a digital still camera, for example.

Claim (Index 23):
The signal processing device according to  claim 21 , wherein the lower bit gray code latch includes:\n a plurality of latches, wherein the number of latches is equal to the number of bits of the gray code clocks, and wherein respective bits of the gray code clocks supplied from the gray code counter are supplied to the corresponding latches.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 29.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.30435
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15514890', '14396912', '14375864', '12127384', '13637870']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6737756064123732
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5343039196894036
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6598284377400763
- Mean Citation Score: 286.4372180000001
- Max Citation Score: 372.52048
- Similarity Product: 282.7704674427605

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test