Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Comparator, analog-to-digital converter, solid-state image pickup device, and image pickup apparatus
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Application No.: US16065848Application Date: 2016-11-30
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Publication No.: US10659022B2Publication Date: 2020-05-19
- Inventor: Masaki Sakakibara
- Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Toyko
- Assignee: Sony Corporation
- Current Assignee: Sony Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Toyko
- Agency: Sheridan Ross P.C.
- Priority: com.zzzhc.datahub.patent.etl.us.BibliographicData$PriorityClaim@6e584350
- International Application: PCT/JP2016/085577 WO 20161130
- International Announcement: WO2017/119220 WO 20170713
- Main IPC: H03K5/08
- IPC: H03K5/08 ; H03M1/56 ; H04N5/378 ; H04N5/374 ; H03K5/24 ; H04N5/3745

Abstract:
In a comparator of an analog-to-digital converter, an input signal is input to a control terminal of each of a plurality of signal input transistors. A signal input transistor selection section selects any one of the plurality of signal input transistors, and generates a current in response to a difference between the input signal and a reference signal to flow in the differential pair configured with the selected signal input transistor and a reference input transistor. A load section converts, at a time of a change of a current flowing in any one of the plurality of signal input transistors and the reference input transistor in response to the difference, the change of the current into a change of a voltage, and outputs the change of the voltage as a result of comparison between the input signal and the reference signal.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190013799A1 COMPARATOR, ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTER, SOLID-STATE IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE, AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2019-01-10
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