PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15759963
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["348", "296000"]

Abstract:
Signals representative of total photocharge integrated within respective image-sensor pixels are read out of the pixels after a first exposure interval that constitutes a first fraction of a frame interval. Signals in excess of a threshold level are read out of the pixels after an ensuing second exposure interval that constitutes a second fraction of the frame interval, leaving residual photocharge within the pixels. After a third exposure interval that constitutes a third fraction of the frame interval, signals representative of a combination of at least the residual photocharge and photocharge integrated within the pixels during the third exposure interval are read out of the pixels.

Claim (Index 17):
The integrated-circuit image sensor of  claim 13  wherein the control circuitry further comprises circuitry to generate (i) respective fractional read-out signals representative of the photocharge transferred to the floating diffusion nodes in response the second control signal pulse and (ii) respective full read-out signals representative of the photocharge transferred to the floating diffusion nodes in response to the first and third control signal pulses, and wherein the threshold level corresponds to an integrated photocharge level above which photon shot noise is a predominant component of total noise in the full read-out signals.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 19.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.64286
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14995138', '14616546', '14827838', '15100976', '14772311']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6571168165156984
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5429343397313726
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6456985688372658
- Mean Citation Score: 265.4244
- Max Citation Score: 367.06876
- Similarity Product: 276.7229831910157

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