PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15773537
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-05
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["341", "169000"]

Abstract:
An analog-to-digital converter ( 110 ) comprises an analog signal input ( 122 ) for receiving an analog signal and an amplifying stage ( 160 ) configured to generate a set of N amplified analog signals, where N is an integer≥2. The set of N signals have different gains. The ADC has a ramp signal input ( 121 ) for receiving a ramp signal and a clock input ( 143 ) for receiving at least one clock signal. A comparison stage ( 120 ) is connected to the set of amplified analog signals (SigG 1 , SigG 2 ) and to the ramp signal input ( 121 ). The comparison stage ( 120 ) is configured to compare the amplified analog signals with the ramp signal to provide comparison outputs during a conversion period. A control stage is configured to control the counter stage ( 140 ) based on the comparison outputs and a selection input indicative of when at least one handover point has been reached during the conversion period.

Claim (Index 4):
The analog-to-digital converter according to  claim 2 , wherein the control stage is configured to:\n determine, during the conversion period, if a lowest gain comparison output of a lowest gain amplified analog signal has changed state before the first handover point; and if the lowest gain comparison output has changed state before the first handover point, to continue to control the counter stage using the same comparison output after the first handover point.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 21.0
- Percentile: 93.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.48611
- Patent Class: 341.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15773149', '14295267', '14158818', '12696109', '13038502']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.649970983381377
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5648655231810806
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6414604373613474
- Mean Citation Score: 332.486824
- Max Citation Score: 452.7192
- Similarity Product: 336.55419556217186

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