PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15766587
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["257", "432000"]

Abstract:
There is provided a method of manufacturing an imaging device including a plurality of imaging elements in an imaging area, where each imaging element includes a photoelectric conversion unit in a substrate and a wire grid polarizer arranged at a light-incident side of the photoelectric conversion unit. The method generally includes forming the wire grid polarizer that includes a plurality of stacked strip-shaped portions, where each of the plurality of stacked strip-shaped portions includes a portion of a light-reflecting layer and a portion of a light-absorbing layer. The light-reflecting layer may include a first electrical conducting material that is electrically connected to at least one of the substrate or the photoelectric conversion unit. The light-absorbing layer may include a second electrical conducting material, where at least a portion of the light-absorbing layer is in contact with the light-reflecting layer.

Claim (Index 6):
The method of manufacturing an imaging device according to  claim 1 , wherein an area in which the substrate or the photoelectric conversion unit is electrically connected to the light-reflecting layer is positioned in an optical black pixel area at an outer circumference of an imaging area of the imaging device.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 23.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.43333
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['13508509', '13456440', '13328459', '15796545', '13861024']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9257407360237988
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5083420382846231
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8840008662498812
- Mean Citation Score: 237.764818
- Max Citation Score: 284.41406
- Similarity Product: 215.54295556914448

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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