PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15742112
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["257", "435000"]

Abstract:
An optical sensor based on CMOS technology including a semiconductor substrate; an array of photocells, each of which includes a respective photodetector active area that is formed in and exposed on a given planar surface of said semiconductor substrate; a multilayer structure that includes metal and dielectric layers and is formed on the given planar surface; and light shielding means formed in or on the multilayer structure; wherein each photodetector active area is associated with a corresponding optical path extending through the light shielding means and directed towards said photodetector active area. All the photocells are connected in parallel to provide an overall output electrical signal related to incident light impinging on the photodetector active areas. All the optical paths are parallel to a given direction thereby causing all the photodetector active areas to be reached by incident light with incident direction parallel to said given direction.

Claim (Index 4):
The optical sensor according to  claim 1 , wherein:\n the photodetector active areas have one and the same given planar size on the given planar surface of the semiconductor substrate; the optical paths have one and the same given height and one and the same given width, said given height and width being related to said given planar size; and wherein said given planar size, height and width, and relative position of each photodetector active area with respect to the corresponding optical path:\n define one and the same given angular range for all the photodetector active areas ( 11 ,  12 , 22 , 32 ); and \n cause the photodetector active areas ( 11 ,  12 , 22 , 32 ) to be reached only by incident light with incident direction that is either:\n (1) parallel to said given direction; or \n (2) defining, with respect to said given direction, an incidence angle falling within said given angular range.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.03947
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['11658516', '11345055', '10661709', '11840266', '14161053']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9163296920609362
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4749069086044201
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8721874137152845
- Mean Citation Score: 154.97579199999996
- Max Citation Score: 162.81592
- Similarity Product: 119.35268384844304

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

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