Installation for the detection and processing of electrical signals
First Claim
1. In an installation for the detection and processing of electrical signals, in particular physiological measuring signals such as EKG, including a filter arrangement located in the measuring signal channel which is determinative of the desired frequency components of the signals;
- and a threshold discriminator for the filter output signals, the improvement comprising;
said filter arrangement including a voltage divider having a voltage-controlled variable resistance, said voltage divider forming control means for varying the frequency range and the filter damping of passed-through signal components;
a control voltage generator, said control voltage generator generating a control signal at signal amplitudes above the threshold of said threshold discriminator for displacing the variable resistance in the voltage divider of said filter arrangement so that the signal components previously lying above the threshold of said threshold discriminator are damped below the threshold by said voltage divider while the frequency range of said filter arrangement is concurrently displaced to higher frequencies, and at signal amplitudes lying continually below the threshold of said threshold discriminator the control signal of said control voltage generator disappears whereby, with the disappearance of said control signal, said filter arrangement is controlled to lower degrees of transmission damping through the variable resistance of said voltage divider for raising the lower signal components in a direction towards the threshold of said threshold discriminator while concurrently displacing the frequency range of said filter arrangement towards lower frequencies.
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An installation for the detection and, respectively, processing of electrical signals, in particular, physiological measuring signals, for example EKG, through the intermediary of a filter arrangement located in the measuring signal channel which is determinative of desired frequency components of the signals. The filter arrangement encompasses controllable means for the variation of the frequency range, as well as for the damping of the transmitted signal components; and which provides a control installation for effecting the control of the controllable means in dependence of the signal amplitudes in the sense whereby the transmission frequencies of the filter arrangement at signals with, in the normal case, relatively high or in contrast therewith still higher signal amplitude components, at an increase of the transmission damping, may be displaced in the direction of frequencies which are essentially significant for these high signal amplitude components; and for signals with abnormally low signal amplitude components, at a reduction of the transmission damping, may be displaced in the direction of frequencies which are essentially significant for these low signal amplitude components.
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1. In an installation for the detection and processing of electrical signals, in particular physiological measuring signals such as EKG, including a filter arrangement located in the measuring signal channel which is determinative of the desired frequency components of the signals;
- and a threshold discriminator for the filter output signals, the improvement comprising;
said filter arrangement including a voltage divider having a voltage-controlled variable resistance, said voltage divider forming control means for varying the frequency range and the filter damping of passed-through signal components;
a control voltage generator, said control voltage generator generating a control signal at signal amplitudes above the threshold of said threshold discriminator for displacing the variable resistance in the voltage divider of said filter arrangement so that the signal components previously lying above the threshold of said threshold discriminator are damped below the threshold by said voltage divider while the frequency range of said filter arrangement is concurrently displaced to higher frequencies, and at signal amplitudes lying continually below the threshold of said threshold discriminator the control signal of said control voltage generator disappears whereby, with the disappearance of said control signal, said filter arrangement is controlled to lower degrees of transmission damping through the variable resistance of said voltage divider for raising the lower signal components in a direction towards the threshold of said threshold discriminator while concurrently displacing the frequency range of said filter arrangement towards lower frequencies. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
- and a threshold discriminator for the filter output signals, the improvement comprising;
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