PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16181926
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-11
Publication Date: 2019-03
Patent Classification: ["348", "301000"]

Abstract:
An imaging sensor is configured to generate a signal that is obtained by amplifying one of a signal corresponding to a first accumulation period and a signal corresponding to a second accumulation period by using amplification factors having different values.

Claim (Index 7):
An apparatus comprising:\n a plurality of column circuit units arranged in a plurality of columns and each configured to generate a signal obtained by amplifying a signal output from corresponding one of a plurality of pixels each including a photoelectric conversion unit, wherein the photoelectric conversion unit respectively accumulates signals during a first accumulation period and a second accumulation period that is a period established separately from the first accumulation period and longer than the first accumulation period, wherein the signal corresponding to the first accumulation period and the signal corresponding to the second accumulation period are input in each of the plurality of column circuit units from the corresponding pixel, wherein each of the plurality of column circuit units generates a comparison result signal indicating a result of a comparison of the signal corresponding to the second accumulation period with a threshold, wherein, in a case where the comparison result signal indicates the result of the comparison between the signal corresponding to the second accumulation period and the threshold and the comparison result signal indicates that the signal corresponding to the second accumulation period is higher than the threshold, an amplification factor for amplifying the signal corresponding to the second accumulation period is set as a third amplification factor, and wherein, in a case where the comparison result signal indicates that the signal corresponding to the second accumulation period is lower than the threshold, the amplification factor for amplifying the signal corresponding to the second accumulation period is set as a fourth amplification factor that is higher than the third amplification factor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 5.0
- Percentile: 98.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.46429
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15614313', '15397472', '13779653', '14614980', '13689414']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6287411518785742
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5763156772574587
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6234986044164627
- Mean Citation Score: 284.710736
- Max Citation Score: 468.5489
- Similarity Product: 443.454724830836

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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