PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15757001
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-09
Patent Classification: ["341", "118000"]

Abstract:
The invention describes a method of performing analog-to-digital conversion on an input signal (P in ) within a range (R 1 ) using a sigma-delta modulator ( 1 ) comprising a feedback digital-to-analog conversion arrangement ( 12, 120 ), which method comprises the steps of: obtaining an amplitude estimate (E 1 , E 2 , E 3 , E 4 ) of the input signal (P in ); defining a subsequent subrange (R 2 , R 3 , R 4 ) on the basis of the amplitude estimate (E 1 , E 2 , E 3 ); and adjusting operation parameters of the feedback digital-to-analog conversion arrangement ( 12, 120 ) on the basis of the subsequent subrange (R 2 , R 3 , R 4 ); whereby the method steps are repeated a predefined number of iterations (N). The invention further describes a sigma-delta modulator ( 1 ), an analog-to-digital converter ( 50 ), and a monitoring device ( 5 ) for monitoring an analog input signal (P in ).

Claim (Index 2):
A method according to  claim 1 , wherein a non-final amplitude estimate is obtained at a low level of accuracy, and the final amplitude estimate is obtained at a high level of accuracy.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.82353
- Patent Class: 341.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['10851608', '12662796', '13021235', '14939679', '14301948']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6112080045505415
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5237364274792652
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6024608468434139
- Mean Citation Score: 221.175184
- Max Citation Score: 227.398
- Similarity Product: 116.32504238426684

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

Dataset: test