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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 01, 2010
Filed:
Nov. 08, 2005
Makoto Ono, Sagamihara, JP;
Makoto Ono, Sagamihara, JP;
Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A clamping circuit including: a subtracter for subtracting a clamping correction voltage from an input analog voltage signal; A/D converter for converting an analog voltage signal from the subtracter into a digital voltage signal of M bits; a potential difference detection circuit for detecting a potential difference between a digital voltage signal outputted from the A/D converter and a previously set clamping voltage; D/A converter for converting a digital signal of N (N<M) bits within the digital signal of M bits representing a potential difference outputted from the potential difference detection circuit into an analog signal; an adjusting voltage generation circuit for generating an adjusting voltage based on a potential difference outputted from the potential difference detection circuit and a threshold voltage set with respect to the potential difference; and an adder for adding together an output from the D/A converter and an adjusting voltage outputted from the adjusting voltage generation circuit to generate the clamping correction voltage.