PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16359911
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-03
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["348", "164000"]

Abstract:
An integrated circuit for an imaging system is disclosed. In one aspect, an integrated circuit has an array of optical sensors, an array of optical filters integrated with the sensors and configured to pass a band of wavelengths onto one or more of the sensors, and read out circuitry to read out pixel values from the sensors to represent an image. Different ones of the optical filters are configured to have a different thickness, to pass different bands of wavelengths by means of interference, and to allow detection of a spectrum of wavelengths. The read out circuitry can enable multiple pixels under one optical filter to be read out in parallel. The thicknesses may vary non-monotonically across the array. The read out, or later image processing, may involve selection or interpolation between wavelengths, to carry out spectral sampling or shifting, to compensate for thickness errors.

Claim (Index 1):
An integrated circuit for an imaging system, the integrated circuit comprising:\n an array of optical sensors; an array of optical filters each configured to pass a band of wavelengths onto one or more of the sensors, the array of optical filters being integrated with the array of sensors; and read out circuitry to read out pixel values from the array of sensors to represent an image, different ones of the optical filters being configured to have a different thickness, to pass different bands of wavelengths by interference, and to allow detection of a spectrum of wavelengths, at least some of the sensors being arranged in a group under the same one of the optical filters, and the read out circuitry for that group comprising two or more output circuits each coupled to different ones of the sensors of that group, so that multiple pixels of the group can be read out in parallel over the output circuits.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 99.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.0
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['13482860', '15059715', '15059621', '14267746', '14267781']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6535786881084158
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5039360853085062
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6386144278284248
- Mean Citation Score: 282.976408
- Max Citation Score: 315.06348
- Similarity Product: 308.56202963839536

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 0
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 0
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 0
- Label 101 Adjusted: 0

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