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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 1985
Filed:
Nov. 29, 1982
Applicant:
Inventors:
Roydn Jones, Aloha, OR (US);
Thomas P Dagostino, Beaverton, OR (US);
Luis J Navarro, Beaverton, OR (US);
Assignee:
Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K / ; G11C / ; H01L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
307351 ; 377 60 ; 377 63 ; 357 24 ;
Abstract
A charge coupled device (CCD) with separately addressable input signal gates is operated in the potential equilibrium mode. With properly selected voltage potentials the CCD can be used as a high speed linear detector of a variable analog signal without the need of preceeding independent sample and hold or peak detector circuits. The result is the efficient minimum/maximum detection of an analog signal in a fast-in/slow-out digitizer.