Abstract:
A SYSTEM FOR ANALYZING ANALOG ELECTRICAL WAVEFORMS OF RELATIVELY HIGH COMPLEXITY IN AMPLITUDE AND FREQUENCY EMPLOYING DIGITAL TECHNIQUES FOR TABULATING CERTAIN DATA DERIVED FROM THE WAVEFORMS, WHICH DATA CAN BE EMPLOYED TO CATEGORIZE SAID WAVEFORMS. WITHIN SELECTED BANDS OF THE INPUT FREQUENCY SPECTRUM, THE INPUT ANALOG SIGNAL IS DIGITALLY ENCODED AND THROUGH MULTIPLEXING A TABULATION IS MADE OF PARTICULAR BINARY WORD CHARACTERISTICS. BY MEANS OF FURTHER MULTIPLEXING, THE TABULATED DATA IS READ OUT TO SUITABLE OUTPUT MEANS. AN IMPORTANT APPLICATION OF ANALYSIS.