US 12,191,879 B2
Receiver
Jørgen Andreas Michaelsen, Oslo (NO); Nikolaj Andersen, Oslo (NO); Olav Tonnaer Liseth, Oslo (NO); and Håkon André Hjortland, Oslo (NO)
Assigned to Novelda AS, Kviteseid (NO)
Filed by Novelda AS, Kviteseid (NO)
Filed on Oct. 13, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/379,840.
Application 18/379,840 is a division of application No. 16/483,166, granted, now 11,817,876, previously published as PCT/EP2018/052581, filed on Feb. 1, 2018.
Claims priority of application No. 1701848 (GB), filed on Feb. 3, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2024/0039550 A1, Feb. 1, 2024
Int. Cl. H03M 1/12 (2006.01); G01S 7/292 (2006.01); G01S 13/02 (2006.01)
CPC H03M 1/1245 (2013.01) [G01S 7/2922 (2013.01); G01S 7/2927 (2013.01); G01S 13/0209 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A range profile digitization circuit for converting a repeating analog input signal into a time series of digital amplitude values, the circuit comprising:
a differencer arranged to receive the analog input signal and a threshold input signal and arranged to output a differencer signal being the difference between the analog input signal and the threshold input signal;
a plurality of clocked comparators, each clocked comparator being arranged to sample the differencer signal upon receipt of a trigger signal and each clocked comparator being arranged to output and hold a quantized signal; and
for each clocked comparator, a decoder which is arranged to decode the quantized signal into a digital value.