PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16031710
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-07
Publication Date: 2018-11
Patent Classification: ["257", "225000"]

Abstract:
An image sensor includes a control circuit and pixels. Each pixel includes: a photosensitive area, a substantially rectangular storage area adjacent to the photosensitive area, and a read area. First and second insulated vertical electrodes electrically connected to each other are positioned opposite each other and delimit the storage area. The first electrode extends between the storage area and the photosensitive area. The second electrode includes a bent extension opposite a first end of the first electrode, with the storage area emerging onto the photosensitive area on the side of the first end. The control circuit operates to apply a first voltage to the first and second electrodes to perform a charge transfer, and a second voltage to block charge transfer.

Claim (Index 18):
An image sensor including a plurality of pixels, each pixel comprising:\n a semiconductor substrate doped with a first dopant type; a first insulated vertical electrode that delimits a photosensitive area doped with a second dopant type, wherein the first insulated vertical electrode is electrically connected to receive a first bias voltage; a second insulated vertical electrode and a third insulated vertical electrode that delimit a charge storage area doped with said second dopant type, wherein the second and third insulated vertical electrodes are physically separate from each other but electrically connected to receive a second bias voltage; wherein said first insulated vertical electrode and said third vertical electrode extend parallel to each other with a first portion of said semiconductor substrate doped with the first dopant type positioned in contact with and extending between said second and fourth vertical electrodes; and a fourth insulated vertical electrode positioned between the second and third insulated vertical electrodes that divides the charge storage area into a first charge storage area and a second charge storage area, wherein the second, third, and fourth insulated vertical electrodes are physically separate from each other but electrically connected to receive said second bias voltage.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 95.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.31579
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15488691', '15136569', '15358737', '15995249', '15230055']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.911492436330922
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5485177868772826
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8751949713855581
- Mean Citation Score: 310.648998
- Max Citation Score: 392.87796
- Similarity Product: 353.2667610123539

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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