PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15961584
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-04
Publication Date: 2018-08
Patent Classification: ["348", "308000"]

Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to a comparator, an AD converter, a solid-state imaging device, an electronic apparatus, and a comparator control method that can reduce power consumption while increasing the determination speed of the comparator. The comparator includes a comparison unit, a positive feedback circuit, and a current limiting unit. The comparison unit compares the voltage of an input signal and the voltage of a reference signal, and outputs a comparison result signal. The positive feedback circuit increases the transition speed at the time when the comparison result signal is inverted. The current limiting unit limits the current flowing in the comparison unit after the inversion of the comparison result signal. The present disclosure can be applied to comparators, for example.

Claim (Index 1):
A comparator comprising:\n a comparison unit configured to compare a voltage of an input signal with a voltage of a reference signal, and output a comparison result signal; a positive feedback circuit configured to increase a speed of transition at a time when the comparison result signal is inverted; and a current limiting unit configured to limit a current flowing in the comparison unit after the inversion of the comparison result signal.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 91.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.14286
- Patent Class: 348.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['14916652', '15535827', '15548289', '12332574', '12699521']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.624946112595609
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5275791741444735
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6152094187504954
- Mean Citation Score: 243.759454
- Max Citation Score: 359.76862
- Similarity Product: 316.04519037249804

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

Dataset: test