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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120127007 | COMPARISON CIRCUIT AND ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERSION DEVICE A comparison circuit includes: an input circuit includes a first transistor for receiving a first signal, and a second transistor for receiving a second signal; a first current route of which the electric current is controlled by the first transistor; a second current r... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120105694 | TIME AD CONVERTER AND SOLID STATE IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE Disclosed is a time AD converter which is provided with an annular delay circuit, a digital signal generation unit, and an annular delay circuit control unit. The annular delay circuit has n delay units (where n is a natural number equal to or larger than 2). The digita... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105262 | MULTICHANNEL DIGITIZER AND METHOD OF DIGITIZING A multichannel digitizer and method of digitizing are provided. One digitizer includes an analog to digital convertor (ADC) having a plurality of channels receiving input analog signals; an operational amplifier in each channel and a comparator connected to the operatio... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105263 | ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERTER An analog to digital converter includes a dielectric substrate, an analog input wire, and digital output wires, with a metal insulator extending over the digital output wires. The analog input wire can be in proximity to the dielectric substrate and can generate heat wh... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120081244 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION An analog to digital converter (ADC) comprises an input node having a variable analog input voltage, first and second switched capacitor circuits, an operational amplifier, and a control circuit. The first switched capacitor circuit has first and second capacitors and i... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120081246 | COMPLEX ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERTER (CADC) SYSTEM ON CHIP DOUBLE RATE ARCHITECTURE A Complex Analog to Digital Converter System on Chip (CADC SoC) implemented into a microcircuit system is provided. A series of stagger clock signals can be fixed on either a rising or falling edge of the system clock and a plurality of A/D converters can be grouped by ... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120068768 | TRANSMISSION APPARATUS AND DISTORTION COMPENSATION METHOD A transmission apparatus includes an analog digital converter that performs sampling on a demodulated signal obtained by demodulating a part of an output signal, which is produced by amplifying a modulated signal of a baseband signal including a plurality of signals hav... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120068870 | Systems and Methods for Semi-Independent Loop Processing Various embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for data processing. For example, a data processing circuit is discussed that includes an analog to digital converter circuit, a digital filter circuit, a data detector circuit, a mimic filter circ... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120068865 | FAST DATA WEIGHTED AVERAGE CIRCUIT AND METHOD A method and apparatus are provided for Fast Data Weighted Average (DWA) double-sampling modulators with minimal loop delay supporting improved stability. Quantization and DEM are accomplished within non-overlap time. By this reduction in time delay, power can be saved ... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120050082 | COMPOSITE ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTER An analog-to-digital converter (ADC) includes a plurality of single slope ADCs, a ramp generator, and digital output circuitry. Each single slope ADC includes an analog input operable to receive an analog input signal, a ramp input operable to receive an analog ramp sig... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120050086 | SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE An AD converter includes a first oscillator outputting a first frequency in accordance with a reference voltage; a second oscillator outputting a second frequency in accordance with an input voltage; a first counter measuring the first frequency; a second counter measur... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120050081 | POWER AND AREA EFFICIENT INTERLEAVED ADC Pipeline analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) are commonly used for high frequency applications; however, operating at high sampling rates will often result in high power consumption or tight timing constraints. Here, though, an ADC is provided that allows for relaxed ti... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120050079 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND CIRCUITRY FOR BLIND TIMING MISMATCH ESTIMATION OF INTERLEAVED ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTERS A timing skew estimation system is disclosed that includes a plurality of interleaved analog-to-digital converter circuits (ADCs), a timing mismatch estimation unit, and a correction unit. The timing mismatch estimation unit calculates a correlation between each of the ... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120038809 | DIFFERENTIAL COLUMN ADC ARCHITECTURES FOR CMOS IMAGE SENSOR APPLICATIONS Circuits, methods, and apparatus that provide differential-input, single-slope, column-parallel analog-to-digital converter (ADC) architectures for use in high-resolution CMOS image sensors (CIS) are described. A column ADC is coupled with a column of a pixel array and ... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120032826 | ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERTERS In one embodiment, an analog to digital converter (ADC) for converting an analog signal to a digital signal includes an input channel for receiving the analog signal, and includes a first and second sampling-integrating units. The first sampling-integrating unit receive... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120033097 | COUNTER CIRCUIT, ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTER (ADC) INCLUDING A COUNTER CIRCUIT, IMAGE SENSOR INCLUDING COUNTER CIRCUIT AND/OR ADC, SYSTEMS ASSOCIATED THEREWITH, AND METHOD ASSOCIATED THEREWITH In one embodiment, the counter circuit is associated with a pixel array and includes a plurality of counting circuits. Each counting circuit is configured to receive an associated input signal, and each input signal is associated with a different column of the pixel arr... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120026027 | A/D CONVERTER USING ISOLATION SWITCHES In an A/D converter, isolation switches are used between the capacitors and the conversion switches. The conversion switches are those switches used to selectively couple the plates of the binary weighted capacitors to either Vref or 0 volts during the A/D conversion pr... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120025903 | Sampling of Multiple Data Channels Using a Successive Approximation Register Converter Provided is a method for performing analog to digital conversion of a plurality of analog signal channels. The method may comprise successively processing each analog signal channel of a plurality of analog signal channels. The processing of an analog signal channel of ... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120023059 | Statistical Word Boundary Detection in Serialized Data Streams Methods, systems, and devices using an algorithm that consists of scoring the bits in the data stream with a periodicity of N, where N is the word-length in bits, and then selecting as the most significant bit the one which receives the highest score after some large nu... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120013497 | A/D conversion circuit and test method An electric device includes first, second and third selectors. A first node connects to a first input of the first selector, a second node connects to a first input of the second selector, a third node connects to a second input of the first selector, and a fourth node ... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120007761 | ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERSION APPARATUS, ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERSION METHOD, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE An AD conversion apparatus includes a shift signal generating portion configured to generate n shift signals (n is a natural number greater than one) of which amplitudes are different from each other; a shift signal controlling portion configured to control the shift si... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120001786 | DEVICE FOR THE ANALOG/DIGITAL CONVERSION OF SIGNALS IN A LARGE DYNAMIC RANGE A device for expanding the dynamic range of a broadband analog/digital converter is provided. The device comprises a splitter module configured to split an analog input signal into a first analog signal output on a first signal branch, and a second analog signal output ... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110309962 | Analog-to-Digital Converter Timing Circuits An analog-to-digital converter timing circuit disclosed herein uses a clock generation circuit that makes the analog-to-digital converter insensitive to input clock duty cycle. Minimum clock jitter is added to the clock signal while propagating through the disclosed cir... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110310928 | SIGNAL DETERMINATION APPARATUS AND TEMPERATURE DETERMINATION APPARATUS A temperature determination apparatus includes a signal detection section having an A/D input port, a thermistor that is connected to the A/D input port and outputs an analogue signal to the A/D input port, and a switch section that shifts a level of the analogue signal... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110309235 | A/D CONVERTER, SOLID-STATE IMAGE SENSOR USING PLURALITY OF A/D CONVERTERS AND DRIVING METHOD OF A/D CONVERTER An analog-to-digital converter converts an analog signal into a digital signal by measuring a time period until a magnitude relation between a voltage level of a reference signal that changes along with time and a voltage level of the analog signal is inverted. The conv... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110298450 | Circuits and Methods for Generating a Threshold Signal Used in a Motion Detector A circuit to detect a movement of an object provides a threshold selection module that uses one or more threshold signals identified prior to a present cycle of magnetic field signal in order to establish a threshold signal used for a present cycle of the magnetic field... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110298643 | ADAPTIVE BIAS CURRENT GENERATOR METHODS AND APPARATUS In one aspect, a method of reducing power consumption in a circuit by adaptive bias current generation of a bias current configured to bias, at least in part, at least one amplifier of the circuit is provided. The method comprises establishing the bias current based, at... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110298644 | SWITCHED-CAPACITOR AMPLIFIER AND ANALOG FRONT-END CIRCUIT In a first period, a first and a second feedback capacitors each store an electric charge dependent on a voltage level of an input signal. In a second period, a first and a second output voltages are fed back respectively through the first and the second feedback capaci... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110292261 | ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTER AND DEVICES INCLUDING THE SAME An analog-to-digital converter including a comparator configured to compare a pixel signal received at a first input terminal of the comparator with a ramp signal received at a second input terminal of the comparator and generate a comparison signal as a result of the c... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110291870 | ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTING CIRCUIT The present invention relates to an analog-to-digital converting circuit, which comprises an integrating circuit, a reference signal generating circuit, a comparator, and a first counting circuit. The integrating circuit integrates an input signal for producing an integ... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110291871 | CURRENT-MODE DUAL-SLOPE TEMPERATURE-DIGITAL CONVERSION DEVICE A current mode dual-slope temperature-to-digital conversion device is disclosed. The conversion device comprises a temperature dependent current source and a reference current source. Firstly, a capacitor is charged by the temperature dependent current source. Next, the... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110291872 | MULTI-GIGABIT ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERTER An analog to digital converter for operating at high speeds can be implemented with a micro-comparator/sampler, an encoder, and a selector. The micro-comparator includes an input from an antenna of a receiver/transceiver system; a transistor pair; reset transistor; casc... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110293046 | COMPLEX SIGNAL PROCESSING CIRCUIT, RECEIVER CIRCUIT, AND SIGNAL REPRODUCTION DEVICE An analog complex filter combines an in-phase signal and a quadrature signal to output first and second analog signals. An analog-to-digital converter converts the first and second analog signals into first and second digital signals. A digital complex filter attenuates... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110285563 | PIPELINED ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTER AND SUB-CONVERTER STAGE The present invention introduces a sub-converter stage used in a pipelined analog-to-digital converter. The sub-converter stage comprises an amplifier with a gain A, a sub analog-to-digital converter with comparators and a digital unit, a first capacitor with capacitanc... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110285567 | METHOD AND CIRCUIT FOR ENCODING AND TRANSMITTING NUMERICAL VALUES FROM AN ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERSION PROCESS An analog-to-digital converter system and methodology comprising an analog-to-digital converter circuit configured to provide sequentially a plurality of codes designating a numerical value in a first number system. The analog-to-digital converter system further compris... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110279296 | Data Converter Having a Passive Filter Exemplary implementations of electrical circuits and systems are disclosed, and methods for signal processing including sampling and quantizing of amplitude and band limited signals implemented through a Passive Pulse Modulation Analog to Digital Converter (PMADC).... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110279297 | Analog-to-Digital Conversion One embodiment of the present invention includes an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) system. The system includes an ADC configured to generate digital samples that are digital versions of at least one analog signal at a sampling frequency and a memory configured to sto... | 11/17/2011 |
| 20110273318 | Analog to digital converter (ADC) with comparator function for analog signals This disclosure relates to analog to digital converter (ADC) component with a comparator function for analog signals.... | 11/10/2011 |
| 20110267214 | ATTENUATOR CIRCUIT An attenuator circuit includes a high-frequency circuit path to produce an attenuated first signal; a low-frequency circuit path to produce an attenuated second signal, where the attenuated first signal has a higher frequency than the attenuated second signal; and a tra... | 11/03/2011 |
| 20110260900 | SECOND ORDER DYNAMIC ELEMENT ROTATION SCHEME A sensor system for generating sample analog signals for processing by a signal processing circuit that utilizes non-constant weights includes a plurality of signal generating elements and a switching network having a plurality of switches operably coupled to the plural... | 10/27/2011 |
