PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16100781
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["257", "228000"]

Abstract:
Imaging sensors, imaging apparatuses, and methods of driving an image sensor are provided. An image sensor can include a semiconductor substrate with a photoelectric conversion element and a charge-conversion element. The sensor can further include a capacitance switch. A charge accumulation element is located adjacent the photoelectric conversion element. At least a portion of the charge accumulation element overlaps a charge accumulation region of the photoelectric conversion element. The charge accumulation element is selectively connected to the charge-voltage conversion element by the capacitance switch.

Claim (Index 1):
An image sensor, comprising:\n a semiconductor substrate, including: a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements, which includes at least a first photoelectric conversion element and a second photoelectric conversion element; a charge-voltage conversion element, wherein the charge-voltage conversion element is shared by the first photoelectric conversion element and second photoelectric conversion element; a first transfer transistor connected between the first photoelectric conversion element and the charge-voltage conversion element; a second transfer transistor connected between the second photoelectric conversion element and the charge-voltage conversion element; a first charge accumulation element, wherein at least a portion of the first charge accumulation element overlaps a charge accumulation region of the first photoelectric conversion element; and a second charge accumulation element, wherein at least a portion of the second charge accumulation element overlaps a charge accumulation region of the second photoelectric conversion element,\n wherein each of the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements is configured to receive light entered from a first surface of the semiconductor substrate, and \n wherein the first and second charge accumulation elements are disposed on a second surface of the semiconductor substrate, the second surface is opposed to the first surface.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.95745
- Patent Class: 257.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15278096', '14079103', '15156882', '15424255', '14300989']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.9262395524826847
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5168214700683237
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.8852977442412486
- Mean Citation Score: 308.24651000000006
- Max Citation Score: 339.5801
- Similarity Product: 334.4330087835788

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

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