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DTMF receiver

US4833399A · kind A · utility

9Cited by
5References
33Claims
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Key dates

Filing dateJun 13, 1988
Grant dateMay 23, 1989
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Expiry dateJun 13, 2008

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG01R23/14
  • WIPO fieldMeasurement
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A DTMF receiver (10) recognizes each of a plurality of multi-frequency tones, each tone centered on a predetermined standard frequency. Two digital bandpass filters (14, 16) each have four frequency bins, each frequency bin operating according to a recursive second-order transfer function for preferentially transmitting frequencies near the standard frequencies. Each frequency bin accumulates, for each of a plurality of sampling periods, respective spectral energy signals from the input signal. A temporal energy signal is derived from the spectral energy signals. For each bandpass filter (14, 16), a time-domain test template generator (30) and a frequency-domain test template generator (34) are provided to generate time-domain and frequency-domain test templates. These test templates are input to an analyzer (38) that compares the templates against data-adaptive frequency-domain and time-domain reference templates.

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