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United States Patent | 3,906,487 |
Siems | September 16, 1975 |
A wavetrain of electrical analog signals having a wide dynamic range is sampled and quantized at predetermined time intervals. The quantized samples are formatted as floating-point-numbers. Absolute values of the exponents of the floating-point numbers are low-pass filtered over the duration of the wavetrain. For playback, the mantissas of the floating-point numbers representing quantized samples are denormalized and are multiplied by an exponential multiplier derived from the present value of the filtered absolute-valued exponents to form logarithmically compressed products. These products are preferably converted from digital to analog form for visual display.
Inventors: | Siems; Lee E. (Houston, TX) |
Assignee: |
Digital Data Systems, Inc.
(Houston,
TX)
|
Appl. No.: | 05/496,597 |
Filed: | August 13, 1974 |
Current U.S. Class: | 341/139 ; 367/67 |
Current International Class: | G01V 1/32 (20060101); G01V 1/28 (20060101); G06F 7/60 (20060101); G06F 7/68 (20060101); G06F 7/62 (20060101); H03M 1/00 (20060101); H03M 7/30 (20060101); H03K 013/00 () |
Field of Search: | 340/347DA,347DD,15.5GC,15.5DP 235/154,152,150.31,197,156 |
3458859 | July 1969 | Godfrey |
3555540 | January 1971 | Hartke |
3562504 | February 1971 | Harris |
3685046 | August 1972 | Howlett |