PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16134960
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-09
Publication Date: 2019-05
Patent Classification: ["341", "143000"]

Abstract:
The present invention provides a continuous-time delta-sigma modulator comprising two ADCs. One of the ADC is configured to generate MSBs of an output signal of the continuous-time delta-sigma modulator, and the other ADC is configured to generate LSBs of the output signal. In addition, the two ADCs sample an output of a loop filter at different times, but the MSBs and LSBs are feedback to the loop filter simultaneously.

Claim (Index 5):
A continuous-time delta-sigma modulator, comprising:\n a receiving circuit, for receiving an input signal and a feedback signal to generate a first signal; a loop filter, for filtering the first signal to generate a filtered signal; a first analog-to-digital converter (ADC), for sampling the filtered signal to generate a first digital signal; a second ADC, for sampling upon the filtered signal to generate a second digital signal; a combiner, for combining the first digital signal and the second digital signal to generate an output signal of the continuous-time delta-sigma modulator; and a feedback circuit, coupled to the first ADC and the second ADC, for generating at least one feedback signal according to the first digital signal and the second digital signal; a first switch coupled between an output node of the loop filter and the first ADC; a second switch coupled between the output node of the loop filter and the second ADC; wherein the first ADC and the second ADC sample the filtered signal at different times, and the first digital signal generated by the first ADC and the second digital signal generated by the second ADC are provided to the feedback circuit; wherein the first switch is controlled by a first clock signal, and the second switch is controlled by a second clock signal whose phase is different from a phase of the first clock signal, to make the first ADC and the second ADC sample the filtered signal at different times.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.875
- Patent Class: 341.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15440612', '13197756', '15455971', '15068231', '12723680']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5670030360356646
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5122679435673736
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5615295267888355
- Mean Citation Score: 272.286376
- Max Citation Score: 293.55746
- Similarity Product: 264.66993710725546

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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