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A/D converter and solid-state imaging apparatus with offset voltage correction

Granted 26 May 2015 · 2 office actions

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Abstract

Provided is an A/D converter including an input terminal, a reference signal line for supplying a reference signal which changes temporally, a comparator, a correction capacitor connected to an inverting input terminal of the comparator; and an output circuit which outputs digital data corresponding to an analog signal input to the input terminal. In a first state in which a total voltage of a first analog signal and an offset voltage of the comparator is held in the correction capacitor, a second analog signal input to the input terminal is supplied to a non-inverting input terminal of the comparator, and the second analog signal or the total voltage is changed using the reference signal, thereby outputting, from the output circuit, digital data.

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Classifications

4 codes
IPC · International Patent Classification
Section G — Physics
  • G02F7/00
Section H — Electricity
  • H04N5/3745
  • H04N5/378
USPC · US Patent Classification
250/206

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Pendency
2.8 y
1,007 days filing → grant
Office actions
1
non-final + final
Responses
1
no RCE
Examiner
Francis M Legasse, Jr.
art unit 2878 · TC 2800
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related publicationUS 20130068930 A121 Mar 2013

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