PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16058340
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["341", "166000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to a comparator, an AD converter, a solid-state image pickup device, an electronic device, a method of controlling the comparator, a data writing circuit, a data reading circuit, and a data transferring circuit, capable of improving the determining speed of the comparator and reducing power consumption. The comparator includes: a differential input circuit configured to operate with a first power supply voltage, the differential input circuit configured to output a signal when an input signal is higher than a reference signal in voltage; a positive feedback circuit configured to operate with a second power supply voltage lower than the first power supply voltage, the positive feedback circuit being configured to accelerate transition speed when a compared result signal indicating a compared result between the input signal and the reference signal in voltage, is inverted, on the basis of the output signal of the differential input circuit; and a voltage conversion circuit configured to convert the output signal of the differential input circuit into a signal corresponding to the second power supply voltage. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, a comparator of a solid-state image pickup device.

Claim (Index 3):
The imaging device according to  claim 2 , wherein the second differential transistor is configured to receive a reference signal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.80263
- Patent Class: 341.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15548289', '14916652', '15961584', '14396912', '15200108']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6062011510609375
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5379742553639247
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5993784614912362
- Mean Citation Score: 232.043004
- Max Citation Score: 358.62473
- Similarity Product: 266.24250452499746

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

Dataset: test