Sequence display

• US 20030222873A1
• Filed: 05/13/2003
• Published: 12/04/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 05/28/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Gilles Ritter
• Original Assignee: Gilles Ritter
• Inventors: Ritter, Gilles
• Application Number:
  US10/436,788
• Publication Number:
  US 20030222873A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/440
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 13/02 for displaying measured electric variables in digital form

Abstract

An oscilloscope, comprising a display, a display controller for controlling information to be displayed on the display, and an acquisition system for acquiring a sequence of waveforms. Two or more of the sequentially acquired waveforms are displayed employing a small vertical shift and a small horizontal shift, thus resulting in a diagonal positioning of each waveform relative to each previously drawn waveform.

Claims

1. An oscilloscope, comprising:

a display;

a display controller for controlling information to be displayed on said display; and

an acquisition system for acquiring a sequence of waveforms;

wherein two or more of the sequentially acquired waveforms are overlaid on top of each other using the full screen.

2. The oscilloscope of claim 1, wherein noise associated with a particular waveform causes the waveforms to not precisely overlap with the other sequentially acquired waveforms.

3. An oscilloscope, comprising:

a display;

a display controller for controlling information to be displayed on said display; and

an acquisition system for acquiring a sequence of waveforms;

wherein two or more of the sequentially acquired waveforms are displayed employing a small vertical shift.

4. The oscilloscope of claim 3, wherein the full width of the screen is used for each waveform, while the height is reduced in order to fit all waveforms of the sequence into the screen.

5. The oscilloscope of claim 4, wherein an absolute scale employed along an x-axis of the display is applicable for all waveforms, but any relative positioning between adjacent waveforms is measured using the y-axis scale.

6. The oscilloscope of claim 3, wherein a user is able to identify if one waveform is not correctly aligned in time horizontally, as a result of jitter, with the other acquired waveforms.

7. An oscilloscope, comprising:

a display;

a display controller for controlling information to be displayed on said display; and

an acquisition system for acquiring a sequence of waveforms;

wherein two or more of the sequentially acquired waveforms are displayed employing a small vertical shift and a small horizontal shift, thus resulting in a diagonal positioning of each waveform relative to each previously drawn waveform.

8. The oscilloscope of claim 7, wherein the width and height of each waveform are reduced slightly in order to fit all waveforms into the display.

9. The oscilloscope of claim 8, wherein the size of each of the waveforms is reduced a similar percentage in each direction so that the original perspective of each individual waveform is preserved.

10. The oscilloscope of claim 7, wherein a user is quickly able to analyze the shape of the waveforms

11. An oscilloscope, comprising:

a display;

a display controller for controlling information to be displayed on said display; and

an acquisition system for acquiring a sequence of waveforms;

wherein two or more of the sequentially acquired waveforms are displayed in accordance with a tiled pattern, each waveform being displayed in its own cell.

12. The oscilloscope of claim 11, wherein the display is divided into a grid including multiple lines and columns and each waveform is displayed in one cell of the grid.

13. The oscilloscope of claim 12, wherein the width and height of each waveform is adapted to fit in a cell of the grid, but allows for each waveform to be displayed in a perspective similar to that of the original display.

14. The oscilloscope of claim 13, wherein the ratio between width and height of each waveforms depicted in the grid and in the original sample is preserved.

15. The oscilloscope of claim 11, wherein a user is able to look at a greater number of waveform segments while not altering the look or displayed shape of each of the waveforms.

16. The oscilloscope of claim 11, wherein a use selects a number of waveforms to be display on said display, and the number of selected waveforms determines a size of each of the tiles.