PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15945623
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
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 13):
The pixel circuit according to  claim 12 , wherein the pixel circuit further comprises a voltage clamp circuit electrically coupled to the photodiode and to the control, the voltage clamp configured to limit a voltage level of the voltage pulse input to the latch circuit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.83582
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14680906', '11641965', '12351033', '15657101', '15702985']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.60358209503669
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5461398753247012
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5978378730654912
- Mean Citation Score: 241.992788
- Max Citation Score: 390.4587
- Similarity Product: 248.67830823056104

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

Dataset: test