PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16126985
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-01
Patent Classification: ["250", "338100"]

Abstract:
A system and method for digitizing data from an imaging system includes sampling a signal from an optical detector with a first circuit having a first attenuation and with a second circuit having a second attenuation different than the first attenuation. The system and method further includes digitizing the sampled signal at a predetermined number of bits desired for an analog to digital conversion of the sampled signal by allocating a first portion of bits to digitizing a signal from the first circuit and allocating a second portion of bits to digitizing a signal from the second circuit. The system and method further includes encoding the first and second portion of bits into one monotonic digital word corresponding to a range of the sampled signal.

Claim (Index 1):
A method for digitizing data from an imaging system, comprising;\n sampling a signal from an optical detector with a first sample and hold, S/H, for a first sample time t s/h2  and with a second S/H for a second sample time t s/h2  where t s/h1 >t s/h2 , producing a digital counter signal and a ramp signal wherein the counter and the ramp are timed such that the counter counts from  0  to a predetermined number of bits, C max -x, wherein C max  corresponds to the number of bits desired for an analog to digital conversion of the detector signal, in approximately the time taken for the ramp to ramp from 0 to a predetermined voltage, v s1 , sending the first S/H output to a comparator and comparing it to the ramp signal, starting the counter and the ramp, after a time>t s/h , latching the count value if the ramp signal meets a threshold defined by the output of the first S/H before the counter counts to C max -x, sending the second S/H signal to the comparator if the latching does not happen before C max -x is reached, resetting the ramp to zero and restarting the ramp at a slope sufficient to ramp from 0 to a predetermined voltage v s2  in the time required for x counts, and latching the count value if the output of the ramp signal meets a threshold defined by the output of the second S/H, wherein the count latched is a digitization of the detector signal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.61224
- Patent Class: 250.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14292124', '12421948', '11230385', '11974813', '13038502']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6941262442760807
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4856646994002695
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6732800897884996
- Mean Citation Score: 162.22566
- Max Citation Score: 265.27652
- Similarity Product: 239.8141441978717

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

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