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Digital/analogue conversion

US5952945A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateAug 14, 1997
Grant dateSep 14, 1999
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Expiry dateAug 14, 2017

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH03M1/66
  • WIPO fieldBasic communication processes
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Method and apparatus of converting between digital and analogue signal formats, wherein dither signals are combined with information signals to be converted, the dither signals being as a predetermined plurality of particular discrete frequencies that are outside desired information signal bandwidth and have orderly relation including to signal conversion sampling rate, which orderly relation aids looping of sequences of patterns in a related data stream having pattern-to-pattern transitions similar to within-pattern transitions. Specifically, discrete dither signal frequencies have integral relation with their minimum separation or spacing and with said sampling rate, the lowest frequency and the minimum frequency separation each being whole number divisors or submultiples of higher dither frequencies andor of the signal conversion rate.

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