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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:
Jan. 09, 2001
Filed:
Feb. 19, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
H. Scott Fetterman, New Tripoli, PA (US);
Assignee:
Lucent Technologies Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 1/20 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 1/20 ;
Abstract
There is disclosed, a converter for converting an input signal from one form to another. The converter includes a slicing circuit adapted to slice a signal into levels. The slicing circuit includes at least one threshold for establishing slicing levels. Dither is employed to vary at least one slicing level in the slicing circuit.