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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8170821 | Automatic signal identifying method and automatic signal skew measurement method In order to automatically measure a signal skew between a first test signal and a second test signal by using an oscilloscope, a method is provided by the present invention. The method includes: capturing a band center of the first test signal; capturing a first sam... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8131489 | Long data record analysis A data analysis technique for a long data record in a memory uses a reference, either user-provided or calculated from the data in the long data record, as a representative event. Each event in the long data record is compared with the reference to determine whether... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8046183 | Pre-trigger and post-trigger acquisition for no dead time acquisition system Pre-trigger and post-trigger acquisition for a no dead time acquisition system, where the data being displayed does not include a related trigger event, has a variable record length buffer having a maximum record length equal to a maximum desired pre-trigger interva... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8046182 | Method and system for digital triggering of signals on the basis of two triggering events separated by a time difference An approach is provided for digital triggering a recording of one or several signals sampled at individual sampling instants on a digital oscilloscope. The triggering is carried out when the interval between two recurrent triggering events is less or greater than a ... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8024141 | Test and measurement instrument and method for providing post-acquisition trigger control and presentation A test and measurement instrument and method for providing post-acquisition trigger control and presentation of associated waveforms on a display. An electrical signal under test is sampled and digitized, and stored in an acquisition memory as a data record. A displ... | 09/20/2011 |
| 7877219 | System and method for analyzing a signal displaying a non-monotonic transition A system for analyzing non-monotonic of signals is provided. The system is configured for receiving a signal and displaying changes of the signal using a waveform curve. The system is configured for analyzing data of the signals and the waveform curve in order to lo... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7792649 | System and circuit for constructing a synchronous signal diagram from asynchronously sampled data A system and circuit for constructing a synchronous signal diagram from asynchronous sampled data provides a low cost and production-integrable technique for providing a signal diagram. The data signal is edge-detected and asynchronously sampled (or alternatively a ... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7783439 | Signal generator device and data eye scan system A signal generator device for generating at least one periodic signal for use in a data eye scan system. The signal generator comprises a clock input, at least one output and at least one signal generator coupled with the clock input and with the output. The signal ... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7747402 | Method, system and software application for electrochemical analysis Electrochemical analysis is performed by applying one or more time-sequenced voltage waveforms in a solution and measuring the resulting current in the solution. Raw data representative of the measured current parameters may be integrated based on one or more integr... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7729872 | Digital signal analysis program and waveform display apparatus Selectable portions of a display on a display screen allow a user to select bits of a digital signal. A mode selection menu changes the bit selection to select bits in different ways. If an individual bit designation mode is selected, objects are displayed that corr... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7684943 | Probe carrier management method, probe carrier manufacturing apparatus and probe carrier managing apparatus A method for appropriately managing the quality and distribution of a probe carrier. Probe carriers manufactured by a probe carrier manufacturing apparatus having ejecting portions for ejecting probe solutions, each containing a probe, which can be specifically coup... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7558686 | Method and apparatus for displaying a representation of a signal Disclosed is a signal analyzer that can receive a signal generated by an external system. The signal has a plurality of frequency components. The signal analyzer generates a suppressed phasor domain representation of the signal by selectively removing at least one c... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7460967 | Selectable navigation to automatically discovered events within the acquisition record of a digital sampling oscilloscope Events discovered by an automatic measurement subsystem in the trace of a DSO are visited using a set of event navigation controls. In a TIME Mode the controls operate to display the first of those events, display the next event after the one currently displayed, di... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7443912 | Method and system for displaying the amplitude distortions of a transmission channel In order to display the amplitude distortions of a transmission channel, the amplitude distribution of a measurement signal of a known amplitude distribution is measured at the output of the transmission channel. Based on a given multitude of amplitude measured valu... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7405723 | Apparatus for testing display device and method for testing the same An apparatus for testing a display device includes a display device to display test patterns, a graphic process unit to supply analog mode signals and digital mode signals to the display device, and a control unit to allow test patterns of an analog testing mode and... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7401007 | Method, computer program and apparatus for extracting large size signal data samples with an automatically adjusted decimation ratio A method for rapidly extracting data file samples with an a signal monitor and an automatically adjusted decimation ratio is provided to solve the long-standing problems caused by large data files and small buffers by reducing a large data segment to a smaller, more... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7386406 | Forced-alignment measurement tools for composite eye diagrams An original composite eye diagram is reformulated by deliberately re-aligning its component eye diagrams according to some appropriate standard. This ‘forced-alignment’ shifts the components in one or both of the time and voltage axes. Notice is taken of the shi... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7379830 | Period determination of a periodic NRZ signal A method and apparatus for determining the period Tp of a signal representing a digitally modulated waveform using NRZ coding with a discrete/integer number of a clock periods between signal transitions, where a periodic sequence of logic “1s” and log... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7373263 | Analog-type measurements for a logic analyzer A logic analyzer that performs analog-type measurements on digital data includes circuitry in its acquisition system that is programmable to search through acquired data to detect analog-type signal characteristics. In a first embodiment, the logic analyzer includes... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373198 | Method and apparatus for the estimation of anesthetic depth using wavelet analysis of the electroencephalogram A method and apparatus to monitor the neurologic state of a patient undergoing general anesthesia is provided. Previous automated systems to monitor the neurologic state of a patient undergoing general anesthesia involve a significant time delay between the patient'... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7362836 | Method for selecting optimum sampling parameters for a plurality of data receivers having at least one sampling parameter in common Eye diagrams are made for signals on each channel in a group thereof. Outlying signals that do not exhibit overlap for a sampling parameter that is to be common for all channels may be ignored and a warning given. Selected, normalized eye openings are used to discov... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7359810 | Characterizing newly acquired waveforms for identification of waveform anomalies A method of characterizing a newly acquired waveform with respect to previously acquired waveforms during monitoring of a generally repetitive signal, where the previously acquired waveforms have been rasterized into a two-dimensional array of memory locations, read... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7353137 | Shoe-based weight measuring system A shoe-based weight measuring system, comprising: a shoe; one or more weight sensitive detectors constructed and arranged with the shoe to sense weight of a person wearing the shoe and walking or standing; a processor for processing signals from the detectors to det... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7346464 | Gait waveform feature extracting method and individual identification system A gait waveform feature extracting method and an individual identification system extract features of the gait waveform. A one-step waveform corresponding to one step of a walking movement is specified using, as an index, a peak amplitude corresponding to a state wh... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7340311 | Electrical panel access and control apparatus including true emergency stop and power buss lockout An improved electrical panel design provides a modular, power-reliable, buss-lockout and true emergency-stop capabilities. Through the use of an interface, the approach eliminates numerous outdated, if not antiquated, parts, including safety locks, mechanical discon... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7340358 | Measurement equipment A measurement equipment has a polygonal line processing section and a computational processing section. The polygonal line processing section produces a polygonal line pattern signal based on a predetermined polygonal line pattern having a polygonal line value that ... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7337082 | Digital measurement instrument for acquiring measurement and time values A measurement instrument includes a measurement value acquiring portion for acquiring a measurement value in a predetermined period, and a measurement timing acquiring portion for acquiring measurement timing information. The measurement timing information is a meas... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7334185 | Data management tool A method and system for managing data elements with associated attributes in a computer system is described. Identifiers of each data element and information identifying the attributes of each data element are stored and the identifiers associated with each of the d... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7324903 | Method and apparatus for measuring signal quality using eye pattern A signal quality measuring method and apparatus in which a quality of a signal detected from an RF signal read out from a disk or a communications channel is measured by using eye pattern signals of the detected RF signals. Eye pattern signals representing time chan... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7317453 | Video graphics array color signal generator A video graphics array color signal generator is provided. The signal generator includes an FPGA (field program gate array) device (1), a PROM (programmable read only memory) (2), a PLL (phase locked loop) circuit (3), a D/A (digital/analog) con... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7301484 | Data decoder A method, apparatus and computer program for decoding a data stream. The method comprises the steps of acquiring an analog data signal, determining an initial polarity of the analog data signal, determining a threshold transition level, determining a plurality of tr... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7301738 | Method and apparatus for minimally invasive network monitoring A method and apparatus for monitoring a communication network is provided. The network includes a plurality of node electronics units communicatively coupled to at least one central control processing unit through at least one network wherein each network includes a... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7299146 | Apparatus and method to calibrate a system having an input signal and an output signal A method is disclosed to calibrate a system receiving an input signal and generating an output signal. The method provides an input signal, and generates an output signal. The method establishes a sampling rate comprising a reference frequency, samples the input sig... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7295938 | Clock jitter calculation device, clock jitter calculation method, and clock jitter calculation program In a voltage drop analysis step S101, the process calculates a temporal variation of a power source voltage supplied to each cell along a transmission path of a clock signal. In a delay variation rate ratio calculation step S102, the process calculates... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7292164 | Enhanced data converters using compression and decompression An enhancement that reduces the digital interface rate of analog-to-digital (A/D) and digital-to-analog (D/A) converters through the use of compression and decompression is described. Improved A/D converters compressing a sampled version of an A/D converter's analog... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7286010 | Systems and methods for over-current protection Systems and methods for over-current protection in all-digital amplifiers using low-cost current sensing mechanisms. An over-current hard clipping unit receives a digital audio signal, clips the signal according to a clip level, and provides the signal to a modulato... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7285948 | Method and apparatus providing single cable bi-directional triggering between instruments System and apparatus enabling the use of a single cable to communicate triggering information between each of a plurality of signal acquisition devices and, illustratively, an external trigger control unit. A combined tripper signal is produced only when each trippe... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7287040 | Test strategy system and method for accounts held direct at-fund The present invention provides a system and method for a user to test and transfer data from a client's database or network to a host's database or network. In accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a user acquires data information from a ... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7282921 | System, apparatus and method for detection of electrical faults System for monitoring an electrical system of a facility includes one or more local sensing devices, each of which is adapted to be connected to the electrical system of the facility in proximity to a respective load that receives power from the electrical system so... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7268783 | Image alias rejection using shaped statistical filtering Image alias rejection when converting a high resolution rasterized waveform to a lower resolution rasterized waveform for display uses a statistical filter. The statistical filter provides a shaped probability density function either by combining the outputs of mult... | 09/11/2007 |
