Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Ad conversion circuit and solid-state image pickup device
- Patent Title (中): 广告转换电路和固态图像拾取装置
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Application No.: US14037842Application Date: 2013-09-26
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Publication No.: US08823575B2Publication Date: 2014-09-02
- Inventor: Yoshio Hagihara
- Applicant: Olympus Corporation
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Olympus Corporation
- Current Assignee: Olympus Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP
- Priority: JP2012-222044 20121004
- Main IPC: H03M1/56
- IPC: H03M1/56 ; H03M1/34 ; H04N5/3745

Abstract:
An AD conversion circuit may include: a reference signal generation unit generating a reference signal increasing or decreasing with passage of time; a comparison unit including a first comparison circuit and a second comparison circuit comparing an analog signal to be subjected to an AD conversion with the reference signal; a clock generation unit including a delay circuit in which a plurality of delay units are connected to one another, and outputting a first lower phase signal and a second lower phase signal based on clock signals output from each of the plurality of delay units; a latch unit including a first latch circuit latching a logical state of the first lower phase signal and a second latch circuit latching a logical state of the second lower phase signal; and a counting unit performing counting based on the second lower phase signal output from the clock generation unit.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140098271A1 AD CONVERSION CIRCUIT AND SOLID-STATE IMAGE PICKUP DEVICE Public/Granted day:2014-04-10
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