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Measurement and treatment of a signal comprising stacks of elementary pulses

US7728307B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateMay 18, 2005
Grant dateJun 1, 2010
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Expiry dateOct 31, 2025

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG01T1/2928
  • WIPO fieldEnvironmental technology
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

The invention relates to a method of measurement, comprising treatment of a signal consisting of a succession of temporally spaced main pulses, having a duration D and energy E, which can each consist of a stack of elementary pulses having a duration Di and whose energy is evaluated by a variable Ei having an additivity property, wherein said elementary pulses have instants of appearance Ti following a homogeneous Poisson process of an intensity λ, characterized in that said method comprises the following steps: digitization of the signal; measurement of the duration D and energy E for each main pulse in order to create duration-energy pairs (D,E); determination of the energy pairs (Di,Ei) of the elementary pulses from the constructed pairs (D, E); deduction of energy Ei of each elementary pulse from the determined pairs (Di,Ei). The invention also relates to a signal analysis device comprising means which can implement the method according to the invention.

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