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Method and apparatus for adaptively reducing the level of noise in an acquired signal

US5924980A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateMar 11, 1998
Grant dateJul 20, 1999
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Expiry dateMar 11, 2018

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  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10S128/901
  • WIPO fieldMedical technology
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

An adaptive filtering method and apparatus for reducing the level of an undesired noise component in an acquired physiological signal having a desired signal component. The acquired physiological signal is applied to one input of the adaptive filter, and a synthetic reference signal that is modeled so as to exhibit a correlation with the desired signal component is applied to another input of the adaptive filter. Thereafter, in a feedback manner, the adaptive filter iteratively adjusts the modeled synthetic reference signal so as to progressively generate a more accurate approximation of the desired signal component in the adaptive filter, which approximation becomes a reconstruction of the acquired physiological signal wherein the level of the undesired noise component is reduced.

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