Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Analogue to digital conversion
- Patent Title (中): 模拟数字转换
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Application No.: US11911599Application Date: 2006-03-21
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Publication No.: US07884745B2Publication Date: 2011-02-08
- Inventor: Peter Charles Eastty , Nicholas George Tembe
- Applicant: Peter Charles Eastty , Nicholas George Tembe
- Applicant Address: GB Weybridge
- Assignee: Sony United Kingdom Limited
- Current Assignee: Sony United Kingdom Limited
- Current Assignee Address: GB Weybridge
- Agency: Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: GB0507631.0 20050415; GB0507640.1 20050415
- International Application: PCT/GB2006/001019 WO 20060321
- International Announcement: WO2006/109013 WO 20061019
- Main IPC: H03M1/00
- IPC: H03M1/00

Abstract:
An analog-to-digital conversion arrangement converting an input analog signal into an output digital representation. Two or more analog-to-digital conversion paths each applying a conversion mapping between input analog signal magnitudes and respective digital values generate an intermediate representation of the input analog signal, the conversion paths being operable to apply different respective conversion mappings. An output circuit combines the intermediate representations from at least two conversion paths to generate the output digital representation, the intermediate representations being combined according to a weighting dependent on the magnitude of the input analog signal. At least one of the conversion paths has an enhanced sensitivity mode appropriate to a range of magnitudes of the input signal that are below a threshold magnitude. Control logic inhibits operation in the enhanced sensitivity mode if the magnitude of the input analog signal exceeds the threshold magnitude.
Public/Granted literature
- US20080272950A1 Analogue to Digital Conversion Public/Granted day:2008-11-06
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