PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15914833
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-03
Publication Date: 2018-10
Patent Classification: ["341", "143000"]

Abstract:
A multibit flash quantizer circuit, such as included as a portion of delta-sigma conversion circuit, can be operated in a dynamic or configurable manner. Information indicative of at least one of an ADC input slew rate or a prior quantizer output code can be used to establish a flash quantizer conversion window. Within the selected conversion window, comparators in the quantizer circuit can be made active. Comparators outside the conversion window can be made dormant, such as depowered or biased to save power. An output from such dormant converters can be preloaded and latched. In this manner, full resolution is available without requiring that all comparator circuits within the quantizer remain active at all times.

Claim (Index 18):
A reduced power oversampling analog-to-digital converter (ADC) circuit comprising:\n means for receiving a sample of an analog input signal, including:\n means for comparing the sample to a reference voltage and generating a digital output signal; and \n means for generating a digital output code representing the analog input signal; \n means for receiving a respective power control signal to cause at least one means for comparing to enter and exit a reduced power state; and means for determining a subset of the comparator circuits to receive the power control signal and enter the reduced power state using the digital output code.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 90.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.7027
- Patent Class: 341.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['12924785', '15389297', '14211233', '12579113', '10635826']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.5466954052104246
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5065611882662296
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.542681983516005
- Mean Citation Score: 228.349002
- Max Citation Score: 235.90631
- Similarity Product: 171.624939031598

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

Dataset: test