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Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2022

Filed:

Aug. 06, 2020
Applicant:

Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Yasuhiro Sudo, Chino, JP;

Akio Tsutsumi, Chino, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G04F 10/00 (2006.01); B60R 16/02 (2006.01); H03L 7/099 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G04F 10/005 (2013.01); B60R 16/02 (2013.01); H03L 7/0995 (2013.01);
Abstract

Provided is a circuit device including: a clock signal generation circuit generating a plurality of multi-phase clock signals; a time-to-digital conversion circuit performing a count operation based on an i-th clock signal that corresponds to a multi-phase clock signal, to obtain a count value that corresponds to a time difference between transition timings of a first signal and a second signal, to obtain a first digital value that corresponds to a time difference between transition timings of the first signal and a j-th clock signal that corresponds to a multi-phase clock signal, and to obtain a second digital value that corresponds to a time difference between transition timings of the second signal and a k-th clock signal that corresponds to a multi-phase clock signal; and a processing circuit obtaining a digital value that corresponds to the time difference based on the count value, the first digital value, and the second digital value.


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