Methods and apparatus for estimating clipped samples during analog to digital conversion
US6606047B1 · kind B1 · utility
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| Filing date | Nov 20, 2000 |
| Grant date | Aug 12, 2003 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Nov 20, 2020 |
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- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH03M1/12
- WIPO fieldBasic communication processes
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A circuit, for digitizing an analogue signal includes an analogue to digital converter, a clip processor adapted to estimate a value for clipped digital signal samples, and a buffer adapted to dynamically store a plurality of digitized samples produced by the analogue to digital converter. The clip processor is adapted to read digitized samples from the buffer and replace clipped digitized samples with the estimated values, thereby mitigating the effects of clipping in an output of the circuit.
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