PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15974452
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2019-11
Patent Classification: ["348", "296000"]

Abstract:
An image sensor pixel may include a photodiode, one or more storage diodes, one or more potential barrier structures, one or more capacitors, and a floating diffusion region. The photodiode may be coupled to a storage diode and a first capacitor, and a first potential barrier structure may be interposed between the storage diode and the first capacitor. The photodiode may also be coupled to additional storage diodes and additional capacitors in a similar manner. Additionally, the photodiode may be directly separated from a given capacitor via a corresponding potential barrier structure. Each capacitor may store overflow charge from one or more storage diodes and/or the photodiode and may be connected to the floating diffusion via respective transistors.

Claim (Index 13):
The method defined in  claim 9 , wherein the image sensor pixel includes an additional storage diode interposed between the photodiode and the potential barrier structure, and wherein activating the transfer transistor comprises transferring the second amount of the generated charge while performing the readout operation for the first amount of the generated charge.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 18.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.38889
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15174649', '15906619', '15618899', '15184390', '14862859']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6920529732570494
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5292754917236503
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6757752251037095
- Mean Citation Score: 317.00994000000014
- Max Citation Score: 358.34073
- Similarity Product: 268.634827721107

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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