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Claim 1

AN ANALOGUE TO DIGITAL CONVERTER COMPRISING A FIRST SERIES OF DETECTING MEANS, A SECOND SERIES OF DETECTING MEANS, A THIRD SERIES OF DETECTING MEANS, EACH OF THE DETECTING MEANS OF EACH OF SAID FIRST, SECND, AND THIRD SERIES DETECTING WHETHER THE VALUE OF AN APPLIED SIGNAL EXCEEDS A PREDETERMINED STANDARD VALUE, THE STANDARD VALUE OF EACH OF SAID DETECTING MEANS OF ANY ONE SERIES OF SAID FIRST, SECOND, OR THIRD SERIES BEING DIFFERENT FROM EACH OTHER, A SOURCE OF INPUT SIGNAL, CIRCUIT MEANS FOR APPLYING THE INPUT SIGNAL FORM SAID SOURCE OF INPUT SIGNAL TO ALL OF THE DETECTING MEANS OF SAID FIRST SERIES, FIRST AMPLIFYING MEANS FOR AMPLIFYING THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE VALUE OF SAID INPUT SIGNAL AND THE HIGHEST STANDARD VALUE OF SAID FIRST SERIES EXCEEDED BY THE VALUE OF SAID INPUT SIGNAL, CIRCUIT MEANS FOR APPLYING THE AMPLIFIED SIGNAL AMPLIFIED BY SAID FIRST AMPLIFYING MEANS TO SAID SECOND SERIES OF DETECTING MEANS, SECOND AMPLIFYING MEANS FOR AMPLIFYING THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE VALUE OF THE SIGNAL APPLIED TO SAID SECOND SERIES OF DETECTING MEANS AND THE HIGHEST STANDARD VALUE IN SAID SECOND SERIES EXCEEDED BY THE VALUE OF THE SIGNAL APPLIED TO SAID SECOND SERIES, AND CIRCUIT MEANS FOR APPLYING THE AMPLIFIED SIGNAL AMPLIFIED BY SAID SECOND AMPLIFYING MEANS TO SAID THIRD SERIES OF DETECTING MEANS.