PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16079771
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2019-02
Patent Classification: ["327", "156000"]

Abstract:
The present technology relates to a phase locked loop and a control method therefor, which are capable of achieving low power consumption and good phase noise while suppressing the growth of circuit area. The phase locked loop includes: a digitally controlled oscillation unit that controls an oscillation frequency by a control signal in a digital format; a multiphase clock generation unit that generates clock signals with multiple phases synchronized with the digitally controlled oscillation unit; a clock selection unit that selects a selected clock signal out of the clock signals with multiple phases; a time-to-digital conversion unit that detects a time difference between the selected clock signal and a reference clock signal; a counter unit driven by any one clock signal out of the clock signals with multiple phases; a reference phase generation unit that generates a reference phase; a phase comparison unit that compares feedback phase information obtained from an output value of the counter unit and an output value of the time-to-digital conversion unit with the reference phase; and a digital loop filter unit that smoothes output of the phase comparison unit and generates the control signal for the digitally controlled oscillation unit.

Claim (Index 12):
The phase locked loop according to  claim 10 , wherein\n the time-to-digital conversion unit repeatedly measures a time difference between the two clock signals a plurality of times according to a combination of the clock signals with multiple phases, and an output value of the time-to-digital conversion unit becomes a value obtained according to measurement results for a plurality of time differences.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 31.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.5122
- Patent Class: 327.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: none
- Component Type: 0
- Foreign Priority: True
- Related Applications: ['12956498', '12978221', '15710154', '13755159', '13778478']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.7921656409953474
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5310727245408975
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.7660563493499024
- Mean Citation Score: 324.221052
- Max Citation Score: 353.22644
- Similarity Product: 270.3442083029604

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