PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15943651
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["257", "432000"]

Abstract:
A method for manufacturing a high-dynamic-range color image sensor includes (a) depositing a color filter layer on a silicon substrate having a photosensitive pixel array with a plurality of first pixels and a plurality of second pixels, to form (i) a plurality of first color filters above a first subset of each of the plurality of first pixels and the plurality of second pixels and (ii) a plurality of second color filters above a second subset of each of the plurality of first pixels and the plurality of second pixels, wherein thickness of the second color filters exceeds thickness of the first color filters, and (b) depositing, on the color filter layer, a dynamic-range extending layer including grey filters above the second pixels to attenuate light propagating toward the second pixels, combined thickness of the color filter layer and the dynamic-range extending layer being uniform across the photosensitive pixel array.

Claim (Index 9):
A method for generating high-dynamic-range images, comprising:\n partly absorbing first light propagating from a scene toward a plurality of first pixels of a photosensitive pixel array to attenuate the first light as compared to second light propagating from the scene toward a plurality of second pixels of the photosensitive pixel array, the plurality of second pixels being interleaved with the plurality of first pixels; and after said partly absorbing, spectrally filtering the first light to form an attenuated color image of the scene on the photosensitive pixel array at the first pixels and spectrally filtering the second light to form a brighter color image of the scene on the photosensitive pixel array at the second pixels.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.94643
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15395963', '12736333', '14076823', '15640305', '14928678']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9169259472905772
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5850188001704055
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8837352325785602
- Mean Citation Score: 307.897554
- Max Citation Score: 519.805
- Similarity Product: 419.464593348205

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

Dataset: test