PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16055509
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["348", "301000"]

Abstract:
An imaging device includes a pixel region in which light sensing pixels are grouped into pixel-units that each include multiple pixels, each column including pixels from at least two of the pixel-units. Each of the pixel-units is connected, via a corresponding readout line, to a corresponding readout unit configured to perform analog-to-digital conversion on pixel signals output thereto. A scanning unit that extends in a column direction is configured to select pixels for readout by applying row scanning pulses to scan lines connected to rows. A scanning unit that extends in a row direction for applying readout-enabling scan pulses to lines connected to columns is omitted. Those pixels that are selected for readout by one of the row scanning pulses are read out independently of any enabling pulses applied to lines connected to columns.

Claim (Index 6):
The imaging device of  claim 1 , wherein each of the plurality of pixels comprises:\n a sensing element configured to perform photoelectric conversion on incident light, a readout element configured to receive charge generated by the sensing element and to output the pixel signal when the pixel is selected for readout, a transfer element disposed between the sensing element and an input terminal of the readout element, the transfer element being configured to control a charge transfer operation of transferring charge generated in the sensing element to the input terminal of the readout element, a reset element disposed between the input terminal of the readout element and a reset potential line, the reset element being configured to control a reset operation of clearing charge from the input terminal of the readout element, and\n a selection transistor that controls selection of the respective pixel for readout independently of any other active circuit elements included within the respective pixel, a conduction state of the selection transistor being controlled by the scanning pulses applied to one of the scan lines, which is connected to a gate of the selection transistor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 41.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.97222
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14767055', '15445669', '15868128', '15907440', '12433711']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6665066950433951
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5556714271122918
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6554231682502848
- Mean Citation Score: 289.832016
- Max Citation Score: 416.54233
- Similarity Product: 406.4660432989657

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