PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16170765
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-10
Publication Date: 2019-06
Patent Classification: ["341", "143000"]

Abstract:
Disclosed is a successive approximation register (SAR) quantizer and a continuous-time sigma-delta modulator (CTSDM) using the SAR quantizer. The SAR quantizer is capable of generating M highly-significant bits as a digital output signal, and generating L lowly-significant bit(s) for the execution of noise shaping operation. Therefore, the SAR quantizer and the CTSDM can reduce the demand for the circuit area of a digital-to-analog converter and lower the delay of a critical path, so as to improve the performance and cut the cost.

Claim (Index 6):
The SAR quantizer of  claim 5 , wherein in a current sampling and quantization cycle for the analog input signal, initial connection between the second capacitor circuit and each of the second reference voltage terminals is dependent upon the previously-generated L lowly-significant-bit comparison result(s) by the second control signal controlling the second switch circuit.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 9.0
- Percentile: 97.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.66667
- Patent Class: 341.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['15499872', '15069951', '15049933', '11679388', '12723680']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6245279385353147
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5074022888680584
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6128153735685892
- Mean Citation Score: 229.421768
- Max Citation Score: 232.33641
- Similarity Product: 154.25446155837182

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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