Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Successive approximation A/D converter, imaging device, endoscope, and setting method
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Application No.: US16415067Application Date: 2019-05-17
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Publication No.: US10601436B2Publication Date: 2020-03-24
- Inventor: Shuzo Hiraide , Yasunari Harada , Masato Osawa
- Applicant: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Scully, Scott, Murphy & Presser, P.C.
- Priority: JP2016-247964 20161221
- Main IPC: H03M1/34
- IPC: H03M1/34 ; H03M1/38 ; A61B1/045 ; H04N5/378 ; H03M1/10 ; H03M1/80

Abstract:
A disclosed analog-to-digital converter includes; a sampling circuit to sample a pair of analog signals as a differential input signal; a binary capacitance holding the sampled pair of analog signals and reflecting a level of a reference signal to the analog signals through the binary capacitance to generate a pair of voltage signals; a comparator including a transistor to which the voltage signals are input, to compare one of the voltage signals with the other; a correction circuit provided previously to the comparator, to output to the comparator the pair of voltage signals in which voltage dependency of stray capacitance in the input transistor is cancelled; and a controller that successively determines a value of each bit of a digital signal corresponding to the binary capacitance based on a comparison by the comparison circuit, and reflects the value of each bit of the digital signal to the reference signal.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190280707A1 SUCCESSIVE APPROXIMATION A/D CONVERTER, IMAGING DEVICE, ENDOSCOPE, AND SETTING METHOD Public/Granted day:2019-09-12
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