PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16153631
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["356", "005010"]

Abstract:
An apparatus including a semiconductor substrate; an absorption layer coupled to the semiconductor substrate, the absorption layer including a photodiode region configured to absorb photons and to generate photo-carriers from the absorbed photons; one or more first switches controlled by a first control signal, the one or more first switches configured to collect at least a portion of the photo-carriers based on the first control signal; and one or more second switches controlled by a second control signal, the one or more second switches configured to collect at least a portion of the photo-carriers based on the second control signal, where the second control signal is different from the first control signal.

Claim (Index 14):
A three-dimensional imaging system, comprising:\n a transmitter unit comprising a light source for generating photons and directing the photons to a three-dimensional object; and a receiver unit comprising an image sensor, the image sensor comprising multiple pixels supported by a silicon substrate, each pixel comprising an absorption layer having a different composition from the silicon substrate, the absorption layer comprising a photodetection region configured to absorb photons reflected from the three-dimensional object and to generate photo-carriers in response to the absorbed photons, wherein each of the multiple pixels is configured so that at least some of the photons reflected from the three-dimensional object are transmitted through the silicon substrate into the photodetection region of the absorption layer, wherein the absorption layer substantially absorbs photons in the near infrared (NIR) region for photodetection and the silicon substrate substantially absorbs photons in a shorter wavelength region compared to the NIR region for optical filtering.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 14.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.66667
- Patent Class: 356.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15338660', '16146656', '15908447', '15248618', '15803591']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6938520978878161
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5256986878398686
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6770367568830213
- Mean Citation Score: 297.11160600000005
- Max Citation Score: 332.44562
- Similarity Product: 242.90252429333927

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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