PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16376046
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-04
Publication Date: 2019-08
Patent Classification: ["348", "308000"]

Abstract:
In a pixel section of an image sensor, pixels are arranged two-dimensionally, each of the pixels including an amplifier transistor that is connected to a power voltage and has a gate into which a voltage of a signal charge generated by a photoelectric conversion area is input and a selection transistor that is connected to the amplifier transistor and a signal line. The image sensor includes an AD conversion circuit having a reference transistor having a gate into which a ramp signal is input and a constant current source that is connected to the reference transistor and the signal line. The voltage of the ramp signal or a driving ability of the reference transistor changes depending on whether one selection transistor or a plurality of selection transistors is/are turned on per signal line to obtain a signal charge to be AD-converted.

Claim (Index 6):
The image sensor according to  claim 5 , wherein a gain coefficient of the common amplifier transistor is different from a gain coefficient of the reference transistor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 7.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.21212
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15923109', '13755798', '15173249', '13755899', '14470636']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6695111186088833
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5366471218094233
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6562247189289374
- Mean Citation Score: 245.334896
- Max Citation Score: 369.03564
- Similarity Product: 238.87615570741653

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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