PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15946168
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["348", "308000"]

Abstract:
When the amplification ratio is low and strong incident light causes a large charge, the signal retrieved from regions where the incident light is weak is also weak, but when the amplification ratio is high in regions where the incident light is weak, the signal retrieved from regions where the incident light is strong becomes saturated. Therefore, the dynamic range of the imaging unit is narrow. Provided is an imaging unit comprising an imaging section that includes a first group having one or more pixels and a second group having one or more pixels different from those of the first group; and a control section that, while a single charge accumulation is performed in the first group, causes pixel signals to be output by performing charge accumulation in the second group a number of times differing from a number of times charge accumulation is performed in the first group.

Claim (Index 1):
An imaging sensor comprising:\n a plurality of first pixels each including a first photoelectric converter that converts light to charge and a first circuit that is connected to the first photoelectric converter; a plurality of second pixels each including a second photoelectric converter that converts light to charge and a second circuit that is connected to the second photoelectric converter; a first control wire to which is outputted a first control signal to control at least two of the first circuits, wherein the respective first photoelectric converters to which the at least two of the first circuits are connected are arranged relative to each other in at least a first direction and a second direction intersecting the first direction; and a second control wire to which is outputted a second control signal to control at least two of the second circuits, wherein the respective second photoelectric converters to which the at least two of the second circuits are connected are arranged relative to each other in at least the first direction and the second direction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 44.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.33824
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15401683', '14500030', '14031317', '12720855', '14322135']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6331527603667706
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4817034756873201
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6180078318988256
- Mean Citation Score: 202.474844
- Max Citation Score: 245.61198
- Similarity Product: 213.8036397818828

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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