Coded data generation or conversion – Analog to or from digital conversion – Analog to digital conversion
Reexamination Certificate
2007-08-16
2008-11-25
Nguyen, Linh V (Department: 2819)
Coded data generation or conversion
Analog to or from digital conversion
Analog to digital conversion
C341S097000, C341S098000, C341S118000, C341S120000, C341S155000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07456774
ABSTRACT:
An encoder circuit and A/D converter that can minimize the error of an encoder output with respect to all the possible combinations of thermometer codes are desired to be provided. To this end, an encoder circuit has a logic thereof configured to take a thermometer code as an input and to output as an encoded value a center value of a range in which one or more encoded values are distributed, the one or more encoded values corresponding to positions of one or more boundaries between “0” and “1” appearing in the thermometer code.
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Gotoh Kunihiko
Nakamoto Hiroyuki
Arent & Fox LLP
Fujitsu Limited
Nguyen Linh V
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