PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16108663
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["348", "308000"]

Abstract:
A capacitance of a first line which transmits a ramp signal having a potential changed by a first changing amount is controlled to be larger than a capacitance of a second line which transmits a ramp signal having a potential changed by a second changing amount which is larger than the first changing amount.

Claim (Index 6):
An apparatus, comprising:\n a supply unit configured to supply a first ramp signal having a potential changed by a first changing amount per unit time and a second ramp signal having a potential changed by a second changing amount which is larger than the first changing amount per unit time; a first line configured to transmit the first ramp signal; a second line configured to transmit the second ramp signal; a first analog/digital conversion unit configured to have a first comparison unit which is connected to the first line and cause the first comparison unit to perform a third comparison between the first ramp signal and an analog signal so as to obtain a digital signal corresponding to the analog signal, and a second analog/digital conversion unit configured to have a second comparison unit which is connected to the second line and cause the second comparison unit to perform a fourth comparison between the second ramp signal and the analog signal used in the third comparison so as to obtain a digital signal corresponding to the analog signal, wherein a first capacitance of an electric path extending from the supply unit through the first line to the first comparison unit is larger than a second capacitance of an electric path extending from the supply unit through the second line to the first comparison unit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.2
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14796657', '14356011', '15967340', '15208380', '14676414']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5693265961561478
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.4813952387086472
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5605334604113977
- Mean Citation Score: 183.801978
- Max Citation Score: 194.19086
- Similarity Product: 150.77337761350034

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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