PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15759963
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["348", "296000"]

Abstract:
Signals representative of total photocharge integrated within respective image-sensor pixels are read out of the pixels after a first exposure interval that constitutes a first fraction of a frame interval. Signals in excess of a threshold level are read out of the pixels after an ensuing second exposure interval that constitutes a second fraction of the frame interval, leaving residual photocharge within the pixels. After a third exposure interval that constitutes a third fraction of the frame interval, signals representative of a combination of at least the residual photocharge and photocharge integrated within the pixels during the third exposure interval are read out of the pixels.

Claim (Index 14):
The integrated-circuit image sensor of  claim 13  wherein the control circuitry to assert the second control signal pulse that enables photocharge in excess of the threshold level to be transferred comprises circuitry to assert the second control signal pulse with a magnitude that leaves residual photocharge in the respective pixels after assertion of the second control pulse, and wherein the control circuitry to assert the third control pulse having the first magnitude comprises control circuitry to enable transfer, to the respective floating diffusion nodes, of both the residual photocharge and photocharge integrated within the respective photodiodes during an interval that transpires between assertion of the second and third control signal pulses.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 19.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.64286
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14995138', '14616546', '14827838', '15100976', '14772311']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.656764856299724
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5427648571322639
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.645364856382978
- Mean Citation Score: 265.4244
- Max Citation Score: 367.06876
- Similarity Product: 293.37784916518933

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 0
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test