PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16122215
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-07
Patent Classification: ["348", "308000"]

Abstract:
An image sensor includes a photoelectric converter to generate charges in response to incident light and to provide the generated charges to a first node, a transfer transistor to provide a voltage of the first node to a floating diffusion node based on a first control signal, a source follower transistor to provide a voltage of the floating diffusion node as a unit pixel output, a correlated double sampler (CDS) to receive the unit pixel output and to convert the unit pixel output into a digital code. The first control signal having first, second, and third voltages is maintained at the second voltage in a period between when the voltage of the first node is provided to the floating diffusion node and when the CDS is provided with the voltage of the first node as the unit pixel output.

Claim (Index 17):
An image sensor, comprising:\n a first pixel connected to a first transfer line, to which a first signal is provided, and including a first floating diffusion node; a second pixel connected to the first transfer line and including a second floating diffusion node, which is different from the first floating diffusion node; and a correlated double sampler (CDS) to receive a first output from the first pixel and to receive a second output from the second pixel, wherein: when the first signal has a first voltage, second and third signals are provided to the first and second floating diffusion nodes, respectively, when the first signal has a second voltage, the second and third signals are provided to the CDS as the first and second outputs, respectively, when the first signal has a third voltage, the CDS converts the first and second outputs into digital codes, and the first, second, and third voltages of the first signal have different voltage levels from one another.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.3871
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13541996', '15873057', '14851396', '15416323', '15331195']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6020848947173512
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5007343305434554
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5919498382999616
- Mean Citation Score: 250.54315000000005
- Max Citation Score: 256.8633
- Similarity Product: 200.1924253477335

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

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