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Analysis of non-sinusoidal waveforms
Assignee: Medical Research Council
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Filing: 1985-12-30
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Granted: 1989-01-31
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Expires: 2005-12-30
Abstract
Abstract Apparatus for detecting periodicity in a non-sinusoidal waveform comprises a peak detector for detecting peaks in a waveform, a signal generator for generating a succession of signals corresponding to detected peaks and a signal analyser including a signal plotter arranged to input a succession of signals corresponding to detected peaks and to plot time duration since input of each signal against a logarithmic to the base 2 representation of time.
Inventors
- 👤 Roy Patterson
Bibliographic Details
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Jurisdiction
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Last Synchronized
2026-10-30 19:28
CPC Classifications
G; G01; G01R; G01R23/00; G10; G10L; G10L25/00; G10L25/90
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 16
Claim 1
Independent Claim
118 words
Apparatus for detecting periodicity in a non-sinusoidal waveform comprising (a) a peak detector for receiving said waveform and for detecting peaks in the waveform, (b) a signal generator coupled to said peak detector for generating a succession of signals each at a time corresponding to a respective detected peak, and (c) a signal analyser coupled to the signal generator and including a signal plotter coupled to input a succession of said signals at times corresponding to the detected peaks and to plot time duration since input of each signal against a logarithmic to the base 2 representation of time, and detector means for indicating occurrence of signals at times having a common mantissa value in said logarithmic representation.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
118 words
Apparatus for detecting periodicity in a non-sinusoidal waveform comprising (a) a peak detector for receiving said waveform and for detecting peaks in the waveform, (b) a signal generator coupled to said peak detector for generating a succession of signals each at a time corresponding to a respective detected peak, and (c) a signal analyser coupled to the signal generator and including a signal plotter coupled to input a succession of said signals at times corresponding to the detected peaks and to plot time duration since input of each signal against a logarithmic to the base 2 representation of time, and detector means for indicating occurrence of signals at times having a common mantissa value in said logarithmic representation.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
34 words
Apparatus according to claim 1 wherein said signal plotter provides a spiral plot of signal plotter provides a spiral plot of said signals whereby signals having periodicity from on or more linearly aligned groups.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
29 words
Apparatus according to claim 2 including means for determining the orientation of any such linearly aligned groups, relative to the spiral, for indicating the pitch of the periodic waveform.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
42 words
Apparatus according to claim 1 arranged for the analysis of a sound wave, said apparatus further including a filter arranged to select a plurality of frequency channels together with pitch indicators for indicating the pitch of waveforms in each of said channels.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
26 words
Apparatus according to claim 4 further including means for combining the pitch indication for each of said channels in order to provide an overall pitch assessment.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
26 words
Apparatus according to claim 4 wherein means is provided to form a pulse sequence representing the major peaks in the waveform of each of said channels.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
24 words
Apparatus according to claim 6 including means for adjusting the phase of each channel pulse train whereby said pulse trains may be phase aligned.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
37 words
Apparatus according to claim 4 wherein means is provided to form a cyclic aggregate of the pulse trains for each channel, at the pitch frequency of the waveform, thereby providing an indication of timbre of the waveform.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
44 words
Speech recognition apparatus including apparatus according to claim 5 together with means for providing auditory feature extraction from analysis of the waveform together with syntactic and semantic processor means providing semantic and syntactic limitations for use in determining speech analysis from the sound wave.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
31 words
Speech recognition apparatus according to claim 9 further including means for indicating the timbre of the waveform together with template matching means for comparing said timbre indication with recorded timbre patterns.
Claim 12
Independent Claim
83 words
A method of detecting periodicity in a waveform which method comprises detecting peaks in a waveform, generating a succession of signals each at a time corresponding to a respective detected peak, inputting said signals to a signal plotter and plotting time duration since input of each signal against a logarithmic to the base 2 representation of time, and indicating the occurrence of signals at times having a common mantissa value in said logarithmic representation, thereby providing an indication of periodicity in the waveform.
Claim 13
Independent Claim
83 words
A method of detecting periodicity in a waveform which method comprises detecting peaks in a waveform, generating a succession of signals each at a time corresponding to a respective detected peak, inputting said signals to a signal plotter and plotting time duration since input of each signal against a logarithmic to the base 2 representation of time, and indicating the occurrence of signals at times having a common mantissa value in said logarithmic representation, thereby providing an indication of periodicity in the waveform.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
26 words
A method according to claim 11, said method including detecting the basic time interval of any said succession of signals to provide an indication of pitch.
Claim 15
Independent Claim
80 words
An apparatus for detecting periodicity in a non-sinusoidal waveform comprising means for detecting peaks in the waveform to generate a corresponding pulse train, means for determining three or more pulses in the pulse train having a time relationship wherein the three or more pulses have successive increasing time intervals between the three or more pulses, said successive increasing time intervals being logarithmic to a base of two, and means responsive to the determining means to indicate periodicity in the waveform.
Claim 16
Independent Claim
80 words
An apparatus for detecting periodicity in a non-sinusoidal waveform comprising means for detecting peaks in the waveform to generate a corresponding pulse train, means for determining three or more pulses in the pulse train having a time relationship wherein the three or more pulses have successive increasing time intervals between the three or more pulses, said successive increasing time intervals being logarithmic to a base of two, and means responsive to the determining means to indicate periodicity in the waveform.
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