Method and apparatus for processing signals to extract narrow bandwidth features
US5430690A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Sep 13, 1993 |
| Grant date | Jul 4, 1995 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Sep 13, 2013 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG01R23/16
- WIPO fieldMeasurement
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A method and apparatus for processing a set of signals to identify narrow bandwidth features of the signals, and optionally to process the signals further to extract information about the identified narrow-band features. The invention processes a set of input signal frames (a multi-dimensional pixel array) to generate a narrow-band feature signal (also a multi-dimensional pixel array) from which narrow-band features of the input signal frames can be efficiently, automatically, and unambiguously identified. In a class of preferred embodiments, the input signal frames are the power spectra of a set of sequentially measured signals. Thus, the set of input signal frames is a "spectrogram," comprising rows and columns of pixels (with row indices representing time, and column indices representing frequency). Alternatively, the input signal frames represent a data array of another type, such as a correlogram or a sequence of images. In a class of embodiments, the input signal frames are processed to identify narrow-band pixels (the subset of input signal frame pixels which represent narrow-band energy, or narrow-band processes). Then, the identified narrow-band pixels (which can be displa…
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