PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15964514
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["341", "161000"]

Abstract:
Aspects of a method and system for a successive approximation analog-to-digital converter with dynamic search algorithms are provided. In some embodiments, a successive approximation analog-to-digital converter includes a digital-to-analog converter, a comparator, and a search and decode logice modules which cooperate to generate a digital output code representative of the analog input voltage based on a dynamic search algorithm. The dynamic search algorithms may alter a sequence of reference voltages used to successively approximate the analog input voltage based on one or more characteristics of the analog input voltage.

Claim (Index 16):
An apparatus, comprising:\n a communication interface operable to receive an analog signal; and a successive approximation analog-to-digital converter operable to:\n adapt a search algorithm based on one or more characteristics of past analog input signals to obtain an adapted search algorithm; \n generate a digital reference code per the adapted search algorithm; \n convert the digital reference code to an analog reference signal; \n compare an analog input signal to the analog reference signal to obtain a comparison output; \n update the digital reference code per the adapted search algorithm and the comparison output; \n repeat, a plurality of times, comparing the analog signal and updating the digital reference code; and \n after said repeating, output the digital reference code as a digital output code representative of the analog input signal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 15.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.69643
- Patent Class: 341.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14558004', '14248851', '14811139', '15238056', '15783107']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5869762430841061
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.521407361160141
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.5804193548917096
- Mean Citation Score: 313.2135140000001
- Max Citation Score: 316.4066200000001
- Similarity Product: 285.0026535831631

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

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