PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16161595
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["348", "308000"]

Abstract:
In a photoelectric conversion apparatus, a pixel transistor and a differential transistor form a differential pair. A clamp circuit clamps a gate voltage of the differential transistor. An output circuit performs a first operation in which a voltage based on the voltage at the gate of a pixel transistor is output to the gate of the differential transistor. The output circuit also performs a second operation in which in response to receiving a current from the differential transistor, a signal based on a result of a comparison between the gate voltage of the pixel transistor and the gate voltage of the differential transistor is output to the output node. In the second operation, a control unit in the output circuit controls a change in the drain voltage of the differential transistor to be smaller than a change in the voltage at the output node.

Claim (Index 15):
The signal processing circuit according to  claim 2 , further comprising:\n a clamp circuit configured to clamp a voltage at a gate of the second transistor, wherein the clamp circuit includes a clamp switch element connected to the gate of the second transistor, and the clamp switch element and the first switch element operate in a synchronous phase.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 71.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.86792
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15724949', '15082937', '15754558', '13755798', '15059970']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6531448781535457
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5106867967786961
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6388990700160608
- Mean Citation Score: 277.44311400000004
- Max Citation Score: 324.53052
- Similarity Product: 300.0246320078232

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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