PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15945623
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["348", "138000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus and method for determining a distance to an object using a binary, event-based image sensor. In one aspect, the image sensor includes memory circuitry and address decode circuitry. In one aspect, activation of a photodiode of the image sensor array by receipt of one or more photons is able to be used directly as an input to logic circuitry. In one embodiment, the image sensor includes photodiodes operating in an avalanche photodiode mode or Geiger mode. In one embodiment, the imaging sensor includes photodiodes operating as thresholded integrating pixels. The imaging sensor can be fabricated from one or more substrates having at least a first and a second voltage portion.

Claim (Index 4):
The sensor according to  claim 2 , wherein each photodiode of the array of photodiodes is operatively coupled to a respective address decode circuit configured to store a respective column address, and wherein each row of the array of photodiodes is operatively coupled to a respective row latch circuit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.83582
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14680906', '11641965', '12351033', '15657101', '15702985']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6020752052901245
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5476894513168914
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5966366298928012
- Mean Citation Score: 241.992788
- Max Citation Score: 390.4587
- Similarity Product: 291.0413797299385

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