H03M 1/56
Input signal compared with linear ramp
H03M1/56 (Input signal compared with linear ramp) appears on 858 US grants and 816 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H03M- Granted patents
- 858
- Published applications
- 816
- Assignees
- 248
- Inventors
- 1,027
- Latest grant
- 1 Sep 2026
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| 2022 | 57 | 57 |
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| 2024 | 45 | 33 |
| 2025 | 41 | 20 |
| 2026 | 18 | 17 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Analog-to-digital converter and image sensor including the same28 Jul 2026US 12,696,011 B2Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Interleaving switch cap integrator DAC for low noise ramp generation with lower AVDD power supply16 Jun 2026US 12,659,613 B2OmniVision Technologies, Inc.
- Solid-state imaging device with ramp generator circuit16 Jun 2026US 12,659,629 B2Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
- Comparator and solid-state imaging device with multi-gain ad conversion17 Sep 2026US 2026/0281590 A1Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Imaging device, imaging device control method, and electronic apparatus20 Aug 2026US 2026/0246478 A1Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
- Analog-to-digital conversion device and method9 Jul 2026US 2026/0197011 A1Sanechips Technology Co., Ltd.
- Light detection element25 Jun 2026US 2026/0181280 A1Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
- Method and system for processing analogue signals delivered by pixels21 May 2026US 2026/0143254 A1STMicroelectronics International N. V.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Correlated double sampling with up/down counter244US 5,877,715 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1999
- Monitoring system for voltage tunable receivers and converters utilizing an analog function generator154US 3,973,206 AA. C. Nielsen Company · 1976
- Analog-to-digital converter having voltage to-time converter and time digitizer, and method for using same129US 6,346,907 B1Agere Systems Guardian Corp. · 2002
- Low power A/D converter79US 6,927,721 B2Cameron Health, Inc. · 2005
- Electrically and optically symmetrical analog-to-digital converter for digital pixel sensors78US 6,788,237 B1Pixim, Inc. · 2004