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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 24, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 24, 2015
Applicant:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 1/34 (2006.01); H04N 5/378 (2011.01); H03M 1/18 (2006.01); H04N 5/235 (2006.01); H03M 1/12 (2006.01); H03M 1/56 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03M 1/34 (2013.01); H03M 1/186 (2013.01); H04N 5/235 (2013.01); H04N 5/378 (2013.01); H03M 1/123 (2013.01); H03M 1/56 (2013.01);
Abstract
In a first sensitivity level, an AD converter performs AD conversion selectively using, in accordance with the level of the analog signal, any one of a first reference signal and a second reference signal that have mutually different slopes, and in a second sensitivity level that is different from the first sensitivity level, the AD converter performs AD conversion only using a third reference signal.