PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15861442
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["348", "241000"]

Abstract:
A method, apparatus and system are described providing a high dynamic range pixel. An integration period has multiple sub-integration periods during which charges are accumulated in a photosensor and repeatedly transferred to a storage node, where the charges are accumulated for later transfer to another storage node for output.

Claim (Index 16):
An imaging device comprising:\n a pixel array comprising a plurality of pixels, wherein each of the pixels comprises\n a photosensor having a first charge storage capacity, the photosensor configured to accumulate charge, \n a storage node having a second charge capacity that is greater than the first charge capacity, \n a first transistor between the photosensor and the storage node, configured to transfer charge from the photosensor to the storage node, \n a floating diffusion region, and \n a second transistor between the photosensor and the floating diffusion region, configured to transfer charge from the photosensor to the floating diffusion region; and \n a control circuit operably coupled to the plurality of pixels, the control circuit configured to\n define a plurality of successive integration periods during an image capture in which charge produced by the photosensor in each of the integration periods is transferred from photosensor and successively accumlated, and \n transfer charge accumulated during the integration periods to the floating diffusion region.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.325
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15231287', '11511310', '13216664', '13920677', '12232994']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.685338013711139
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5371629305435015
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6705205053943752
- Mean Citation Score: 343.61040599999984
- Max Citation Score: 370.77084
- Similarity Product: 352.5151250826429

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

Dataset: test