PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15980327
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["348", "302000"]

Abstract:
An image sensor pixel may include a photodiode, a floating diffusion, and a transfer gate. Column readout circuitry coupled to the image sensor pixel via a column line. The column readout circuitry may include sample and hold circuitry, comparison circuitry, residual measurement and summation circuitry, counter circuitry, analog-to-digital conversion circuitry, and digital summation circuitry. Column readout circuitry is configured to perform readout operations on a pixel image signal generated for a single frame in one or more portions, thereby extending the dynamic range of the imaging system without modifying pixel structure to generate high-dynamic range images within the single frame.

Claim (Index 10):
The image sensor defined in  claim 9 , wherein the column readout circuit includes analog-to-digital conversion circuitry coupled to the sample and hold circuitry and the residual voltage accumulation circuitry and is configured to generate first and second digital outputs based on the last portion of the generated charge and the summed residual voltage level, respectively.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.75
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14468242', '14667436', '14185614', '14459068', '15251950']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6461004248371944
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4807474051983451
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6295651228733096
- Mean Citation Score: 194.754186
- Max Citation Score: 196.14337
- Similarity Product: 147.07970278697252

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