PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15873337
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-05
Patent Classification: ["257", "229000"]

Abstract:
To prevent the black dot phenomenon from occurring in a differential amplification-type solid-state image sensor. A signal-side amplifier transistor generates an output voltage corresponding to a signal current corresponding to one of a pair of differential input voltages by supplying the signal current from an output node to a common-phase node. A reference-side amplifier transistor supplies a reference current corresponding to the other one of the pair of differential input voltages to the common-phase node. A constant current source constantly controls a sum of the signal current and the reference current to be merged at the common-phase node. A bypass control unit connects the output node and the common-phase node and supplies the signal current having a value corresponding to a predetermined limit voltage to the common-phase node in a case in which the output voltage reaches the limit voltage.

Claim (Index 15):
The imaging device according to  claim 1 , wherein the plurality of pixels are arranged in an array of rows and columns, and wherein first pixel and the second pixel are located in different rows of the array.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 45.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.37705
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15738614', '10216740', '12533446', '11123042', '12107208']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9292137307060868
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5281026035470693
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.889102617990185
- Mean Citation Score: 244.737648
- Max Citation Score: 345.82565
- Similarity Product: 251.9207555660009

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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