US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Feb. 24 for "Analog-to-digital circuit and operation method thereof" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,750, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Analog-to-digital circuit and operation method thereof" was invented by Yunhong Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Heesung Chae (Suwon-si, South Korea), Keunyeol Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Ingyeong Shin (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Moo Young Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) circuit for digitizing a pixel signal into a digital signal of positive integer (N) bits. The ADC includes a ramp generator, a clock, a comparator, and a counter. A system clock signal allows the ramp...