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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 10, 1998
Filed:
Nov. 22, 1995
Hiroshi Hatae, Toda, JP;
Hajime Akimoto, Ome, JP;
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An analog to digital converter capable of compensating characteristic unevenness of a signal amplification unit provided at a foregoing part of an analog to digital conversion unit and a signal conversion apparatus using the analog to digital converter are disclosed. An input signal is inputted to an analog to digital conversion unit after being converted from a first physical quantity into a second physical quantity by a signal processing unit. Further, a standard signal is converted from the first physical quantity into the second physical quantity by another or the same processing unit having the same function and is inputted to the analog to digital conversion unit. In the analog to digital conversion unit, analog to digital conversion is performed using the standard signal converted into this second physical quantity.