PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15911153
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-07
Patent Classification: ["348", "367000"]

Abstract:
An imaging device includes at least a first group of pixels. A driver block is configured to generate at least two shutter signals, each having on-phases periodically alternating with off-phases. The shutter signals might not be in phase. The imaging device may have an optical shutter that is partitioned in two or more parts, or a set of two or more optical shutters. The shutter parts, or the shutters, may receive the shutter signals, and accordingly open and close. A design of the driver block requires reduced power, which is highly desirable for mobile applications. Moreover, 3D imaging may be implemented that uses various time-of-flight configurations.

Claim (Index 55):
An imaging device comprising:\n a casing with an opening; a driver block within the casing, wherein the driver block generates a first shutter signal and a second shutter signal, wherein the first shutter signal is active during a first period of time and the second shutter signal is active during a second period of time, and wherein the second period of time does not overlap the first period of time; and a first optical shutter and a second optical shutter within the casing, wherein the second optical shutter is different from the first optical shutter, wherein the first optical shutter is driven by the first shutter signal and the second optical shutter is driven by the second shutter signal, and wherein:\n the first optical shutter is open and the second optical shutter is closed during the first period of time, and \n the first optical shutter is closed and the second optical shutter is open during the second period of time.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 2.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.71429
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14883598', '15883437', '15589506', '14028961', '13483076']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5654478186793006
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4765609947559416
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5565591362869647
- Mean Citation Score: 168.37777
- Max Citation Score: 182.93303
- Similarity Product: 143.53775284674705

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