Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Time measuring circuitry and distance measuring apparatus
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Application No.: US15705699Application Date: 2017-09-15
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Publication No.: US10558171B2Publication Date: 2020-02-11
- Inventor: Satoshi Kondo , Akihide Sai
- Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
- Current Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Nixon & Vanderhye, P.C.
- Priority: JP2017-053674 20170317
- Main IPC: G04F10/00
- IPC: G04F10/00 ; H03L7/099 ; H03L7/091 ; G01S13/10 ; G01S15/10 ; G01S17/10 ; H03K3/84 ; G01S13/00

Abstract:
Time measuring circuitry has a ring oscillator, a time-to-digital converter, a time measurer and a phase randomizer. The ring oscillator has a plurality of delay circuitries connected in a ring shape, the ring oscillator adjusting delay times of the plurality of delay circuitries based on an oscillation control signal to generate an oscillation signal. The time-to-digital converter quantizes a phase of the oscillation signal at a transition timing of a reference signal. The phase synchronizing circuitry to generate the oscillation control signal based on an output signal of the time-to-digital converter so that a phase of the oscillation signal coincides with a phase of the reference signal. The time measurer to measure a time interval based on the output signal of the time-to-digital converter. The phase randomizer to randomly shift the phase of the oscillation signal to be locked by the phase synchronizing circuitry.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180267481A1 TIME MEASURING CIRCUITRY AND DISTANCE MEASURING APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2018-09-20
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