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 2):
The analog-to-digital converter according to  claim 1 , wherein the control stage is configured to use a comparison output of a highest gain amplified analog signal to control the counter stage from a start of the conversion period up to a 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): 0.6443961569246156
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5772965820583033
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6376861994379843
- Mean Citation Score: 332.486824
- Max Citation Score: 452.7192
- Similarity Product: 428.05235221896174

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