PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15986363
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["348", "294000"]

Abstract:
An imaging device includes: a semiconductor substrate; pixels arranged two-dimensionally along row and column directions on the substrate; and one or more interconnection layers located on the semiconductor substrate, including a first signal line extending along the column direction and a second signal line to which a multi-level signal is applied. A first pixel includes: a photoelectric converter; a charge storage region; a first interconnection electrically connected to the charge storage region; and a first transistor that includes a first diffusion layer electrically connected to the first signal line and a second diffusion layer electrically connected to the second signal line and that outputs a signal to the first signal line. The first and second signal lines and the first interconnection are arranged in a first interconnection layer. The second signal line is located between the first interconnection and the first signal line, viewed perpendicularly to the substrate.

Claim (Index 7):
The imaging device according to  claim 6 , wherein\n the first pixel includes\n a fourth transistor that includes a sixth diffusion layer and a seventh diffusion layer, the seventh diffusion layer being electrically connected to the first signal line, \n a second interconnection that electrically connects the first diffusion layer and the sixth diffusion layer to each other, and \n a third interconnection that electrically connects the fourth diffusion layer and the sixth diffusion layer to each other, \n the one or more interconnection layers include a second interconnection layer, the second signal line, the first interconnection, and at least one of the second interconnection and the third interconnection are arranged in the second interconnection layer, and the second signal line is located between the first interconnection and the at least either the second interconnection or the third interconnection in the second interconnection layer when viewed in the direction perpendicular to the semiconductor substrate.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.68333
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14955086', '12720872', '15902559', '14322135', '15445022']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6531907982552386
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4877143822594078
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6366431566556555
- Mean Citation Score: 210.68926800000003
- Max Citation Score: 219.56656
- Similarity Product: 164.71699530560494

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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