PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15989543
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["341", "164000"]

Abstract:
The present technology relates to an image sensor, an electronic apparatus, a comparator, and a drive method enabling achievement of a noise reduction while maintaining high speed of AD conversion. An ADC for performing AD conversion for an electrical signal output from a pixel includes a comparator that compares the electrical signal and a reference signal, a level of which is changed and a counter that counts time necessary for a change of the reference signal to a coincidence of the electrical signal and the reference signal on the basis of output signals from the comparator. The comparator includes a differential amplifier that outputs a comparison result signal indicating a comparison result obtained by comparing the electrical signal and the reference signal and a plurality of output amplifiers that outputs signals obtained by amplifying the comparison result signal output from the differential amplifier as the output signals at different timings.

Claim (Index 4):
The imaging device according to  claim 3 , wherein one of a first source of the first transistor or a first drain of the first transistor is coupled to a first potential.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.21127
- Patent Class: 341.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13755798', '13755899', '15414028', '13653008', '14470636']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6315323877794764
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5106829005625045
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6194474390577792
- Mean Citation Score: 254.665896
- Max Citation Score: 260.68057000000005
- Similarity Product: 183.7552633562124

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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