PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16181926
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["348", "301000"]

Abstract:
An imaging sensor is configured to generate a signal that is obtained by amplifying one of a signal corresponding to a first accumulation period and a signal corresponding to a second accumulation period by using amplification factors having different values.

Claim (Index 13):
An apparatus comprising:\n a plurality of column circuit units arranged in a plurality of columns and each configured to generate a signal obtained by amplifying a signal output from corresponding one of a plurality of pixels each including a photoelectric conversion unit, wherein the photoelectric conversion unit respectively accumulates signals during a first accumulation period and a second accumulation period that is a period established separately from the first accumulation period and longer than the first accumulation period, wherein the signal corresponding to the first accumulation period and the signal corresponding to the second accumulation period are input in each of the plurality of column circuit units from the corresponding pixel, wherein each of the plurality of column circuit units generates a first comparison result signal indicating a result of a comparison between the signal corresponding to the first accumulation period and a threshold and a second comparison result signal indicating a result of a comparison between the signal corresponding to the second accumulation period and the threshold as comparison result signals, wherein, in a case where the first comparison result signal indicates that the signal corresponding to the first accumulation period is higher than the threshold, an amplification factor for amplifying the signal corresponding to the first accumulation period is set as a first amplification factor, wherein, in a case where the first comparison result signal indicates that the signal corresponding to the first accumulation period is lower than the threshold, the amplification factor for amplifying the signal corresponding to the first accumulation period is set as a second amplification factor that is higher than the first amplification factor, wherein, in a case where the second comparison result signal indicates that the signal corresponding to the second accumulation period is higher than the threshold, the amplification factor for amplifying the signal corresponding to the second accumulation period is set as the first amplification factor, and wherein, in a case where the second comparison result signal indicates that the signal corresponding to the second accumulation period is lower than the threshold, the amplification factor for amplifying the signal corresponding to the second accumulation period is set as the second amplification factor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.46429
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15614313', '15397472', '13779653', '14614980', '13689414']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6287411518785742
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5763156772574587
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6234986044164627
- Mean Citation Score: 284.710736
- Max Citation Score: 468.5489
- Similarity Product: 443.454724830836

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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