Method for determining the beginning of a second in the signal of a time-signal transmitter

US7053669B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• ATMEL Germany GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Bernd Memmler · Riemerling, DE
• Gerhard Schafer · Neunkirchen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 12, 1996
• Grant date: May 30, 2006
• Expiry date: Apr 12, 2021

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G04R20/12
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A method for detecting the beginning of the dips of the amplitudes in the output signal of a time signal receiver identifying the beginning of a second in the time signal. The output signal of the receiver for the time signals is sampled N-times per second. The sampled values are stored to respective cells of a memory field with N cells. In the memory field a mean signal curve for the time interval of one second is generated over a period of several seconds. A minimum valve and hence the beginning of the seconds in the time signal is determined from the mean signal curve valves in the memory cells.