PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16035363
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["348", "308000"]

Abstract:
Apparatuses and method for an image sensor with increased analog to digital conversion range and reduced noise are described herein. An example method may include disabling a first auto-zero switch of a comparator, the first auto-zero switch coupled to auto-zero a reference voltage input of the comparator, adjusting an auto-zero offset voltage of a ramp voltage provided to the reference voltage input of the comparator, and disabling a second auto-zero switch of the comparator, the second auto-zero switch coupled to auto-zero a bitline input of the comparator.

Claim (Index 5):
The method of  claim 4 , further comprising:\n enabling cascode devices of the comparator, wherein the cascode devices are coupled between the reference voltage and bitline inputs and a pair of PMOS transistors.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 11.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.16279
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15277648', '16035388', '15277642', '15486815', '15486896']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6052420532583286
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5583462717188278
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6005524751043786
- Mean Citation Score: 306.9011900000001
- Max Citation Score: 414.7517
- Similarity Product: 393.380977253008

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

Dataset: test