Notice of Pre-AIA or AIA Status
The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA .
Priority
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Information Disclosure Statement
The information disclosure statement (IDS) submitted on 6/13/24 is in compliance with the provisions of 37 CFR 1.97. Accordingly, the information disclosure statement is being considered by the examiner.
Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 102
The following is a quotation of the appropriate paragraphs of 35 U.S.C. 102 that form the basis for the rejections under this section made in this Office action:
A person shall be entitled to a patent unless –
(a)(1) the claimed invention was patented, described in a printed publication, or in public use, on sale, or otherwise available to the public before the effective filing date of the claimed invention.
Claim(s) 1 is/are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(1) as being anticipated by Zhang (US 9,065,464).
With regard to claim 1, Zhang discloses:
A time-interleaved analog-to-digital converter (100 Fig. 1), comprising: a plurality of sampling circuits (SH1, SH2 Fig. 1) configured to sequentially sample an input signal to generate a plurality of first signals, wherein a circuit parameter of each of the plurality of sampling circuits is set according to a corresponding control signal in a plurality of control signals (fine control, coarse control; Fig 1); a plurality of analog-to-digital converter circuits (ADC1, ADC2; Fig. 1) configured to generate a plurality of first digital codes (outputs ADC1, ADC 2 Fig. 1) according to the plurality of first signals; an output circuit configured to output a second digital code (ADC output) according to the plurality of first digital codes; and a calibration circuit (130 Fig. 1) configured to generate the plurality of control signals (coarse control, Fine control; Fig. 1) and adjust the plurality of control signals according to the second digital code ( col. 3 lines 30-34).
With regard to claim 13, Zhang discloses:
13. A signal conversion method, comprising: sequentially sampling, by a plurality of sampling circuits, (SH1, SH2 Fig. 1) an input signal to generate a plurality of first signals, wherein a circuit parameter of each of the plurality of sampling circuits is set according to a corresponding control signal in a plurality of control signals; (fine control, coarse control; Fig 1); generating a plurality of first digital codes (outputs ADC1, ADC 2 Fig. 1) according to the plurality of first signals; outputting a second digital code (ADC output) according to the plurality of first digital codes (coarse control, Fine control; Fig. 1) and adjusting the plurality of control signals according to the second digital code ( col. 3 lines 30-34).
Allowable Subject Matter
Claims 2-12 and 14-16 are objected to as being dependent upon a rejected base claim, but would be allowable if rewritten in independent form including all of the limitations of the base claim and any intervening claims.
Conclusion
The prior art made of record and not relied upon is considered pertinent to applicant's disclosure. O’sullivan discloses interleaved analog to digital converter with calibration scheme.
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/PEGUY JEAN PIERRE/Primary Examiner, Art Unit 2845