PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15976399
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["348", "135000"]

Abstract:
A photoelectric conversion apparatus and an imaging system with reduced dark current noise while suppressed pixel size are provided. Each pixel has a photoelectric conversion unit and a diode. The photoelectric conversion unit has a first electrode layer, a second electrode layer between the first electrode layer and a semiconductor substrate, and a photoelectric conversion layer between the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer. A diode has a first impurity diffused portion of a first conductivity type and a second impurity diffused portion of a second conductivity type. The second electrode layer is connected to the first impurity diffused portion. The controlling unit applies a voltage to set the first impurity diffused portion and the second impurity diffused portion into a forwardly biased state and a voltage to set the first impurity diffused portion and the second impurity diffused portion into a reversely biased state to the diode.

Claim (Index 7):
An apparatus according to  claim 6 , wherein:\n the diode is a Zener diode; and the controlling unit resets signal charges accumulated in the second electrode layer by allowing the diode to cause a Zener breakdown.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 17.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.98113
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15288800', '16076632', '15351965', '15809899', '15945790']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6604698108518722
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5055999585423057
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6449828256209155
- Mean Citation Score: 233.8581
- Max Citation Score: 236.13574
- Similarity Product: 147.79635339755538

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

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