PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15912128
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["341", "118000"]

Abstract:
Some or all of a comparator circuit of an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) circuit can be efficiently repurposed or reused for residue amplification for efficient noise-shaping, e.g., in a noise-shaping feedback configuration. A preamplifier portion of a comparator circuit in an oversampling ADC can be re-purposed to provide an amplifier to amplify or otherwise modify a residue left after the bit trials of a conversion cycle. The amplified or modified residue can then be used elsewhere, for example, for noise-shaping by applying a noise transfer function (NTF), a result of which can then be fed back (e.g., summed with the next sampled input at an input of the comparator circuit for use in the N bit trials of the next ADC cycle).

Claim (Index 13):
The method of  claim 12 , wherein the input of the amplifier circuit includes a first input and a second input, wherein the primary capacitor includes a first primary capacitor and a second primary capacitor, wherein amplifying a residual voltage at an input of the amplifier circuit and controlling a storage of a charge representing the residual voltage on the primary capacitor includes:\n amplifying a first residual voltage at the first input of the amplifier circuit and control a storage of a charge representing the first residual voltage on the first primary capacitor; and amplifying a second residual voltage at the second input of the amplifier circuit and control a storage of a charge representing the second residual voltage on the second primary capacitor.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 50.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.88889
- Patent Class: 341.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14724555', '15261643', '15583183', '15213078', '15019430']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6461489499980891
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5196884938324073
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.633502904381521
- Mean Citation Score: 281.16644
- Max Citation Score: 309.2316600000001
- Similarity Product: 251.32140910185464

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

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