PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16418706
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-05
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["348", "138000"]

Abstract:
An apparatus and method for determining a distance to an object using a binary, event-based image sensor. In one aspect, the image sensor includes memory circuitry and address decode circuitry. In one aspect, activation of a photodiode of the image sensor array by receipt of one or more photons is able to be used directly as an input to logic circuitry. In one embodiment, the image sensor includes photodiodes operating in an avalanche photodiode mode or Geiger mode. In one embodiment, the imaging sensor includes photodiodes operating as thresholded integrating pixels. The imaging sensor can be fabricated from one or more substrates having at least a first and a second voltage portion.

Claim (Index 8):
The semiconductor device according to  claim 7 , wherein the logic and control circuitry comprises a latch circuit, the latch circuit configured to generate a set signal in direct response to activation of the SPAD in response to received illumination, wherein the set signal reports an array address of the SPAD.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 22.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.83582
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14680906', '15945623', '15657101', '16254582', '15702985']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6207824544453283
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5233676022219869
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6110409692229942
- Mean Citation Score: 253.4717
- Max Citation Score: 318.2986
- Similarity Product: 250.7961848664761

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

Dataset: test