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Digital phase difference detecting circuit

US4721904A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateDec 17, 1985
Grant dateJan 26, 1988
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Expiry dateDec 17, 2005

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG01R25/00
  • WIPO fieldMeasurement
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A digital phase difference detecting circuit has a phase shifting circuit for shifting by +90.degree. or -90.degree. a phase of an input signal which has been sampled over a predetermined sampling period, a dividing circuit for dividing an output signal of the phase shifting circuit by the input signal, an operation circuit for performing an inverse trigonometric function operation on an output signal of the dividing circuit, and a subtracting circuit for obtaining the difference between an output signal of the operation circuit and a phase of a reference signal. The resulting output signal of the subtracting circuit indicates the phase difference between the reference signal and the input signal.

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