Device for gating a blanking bar into a recording of analog signals

• US 4,331,962 A
• Filed: 09/12/1980
• Issued: 05/25/1982
• Est. Priority Date: 09/12/1980
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Siemens AG
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Neumann, Leopold
• Primary Examiner(s): Hartary, Joseph W.
• Application Number:
  US06/186,538
• Time in Patent Office: 620 Days
• Field of Search: 340/734, 340/747, 340/721, 340/722, 340/799, 128/712, 346/33 ME, 346/110 R
• US Class Current: 346/33.0ME
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2560/0443 Modular apparatus
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/333 Recording apparatus specially adapted therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 13/22 Circuits therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G01R 13/30 Circuits for inserting reference markers, e.g. for timing, for calibrating, for frequency marking

Abstract

A gating device which may be used with an image recording apparatus in connection with patient monitoring. The device gates a blanking bar with a recording of analogue signals on the picture screen of an oscilloscope.

Claims

1. Device for gating a blanking pulse into a recording of analog signals on the recording section of a picture recording device, the analog signals being supplied (in the so-called fixed mode) by a frame repeat memory at least for a presettable period of time as a frozen waveform with circular updating and the blanking bar precessing through the recording, separating the signal beginning from the signal end in the signal waveform, characterized such that the frame repeat memory (24) contains as information for the blanking bar (ST) a stored blanking bar code (281) which, when given out from the frame repeat memory, is sent on the one hand to an actuation pulse generator (282) and, on the other, to a pulse generator (47) which upon appearance of the blanking code generates an analog pulse of fast rise time whose amplitude moreover is much higher than the highest amplitude of the analog signal (A) normally to be expected, and which sends this fast rise analog pulse of especially high amplitude to the y-deflection system (48) of the remote picture recording device, while simultaneously the z-generator (49) is activated by the scanning pulse generator (282) for application of a z-actuation pulse to the z-control section of the local picture recording device (28).

2. Device according to claim 1, characterized in that the scanning pulse is a blanking pulse for blanking the signal recording during the period of appearance of an analog of high amplitude.

3. Device according to claim 1, characterized in that the fast analog pulse of high amplitude determines by its duration the width of the blanking bar (ST) to be reproduced in the signal image.

4. Device according to claim 1, characterized in that, when using a digital frame repeat memory (24), the stored blanking bar signal (281) is a memory address group (281) which circulates in the frame repeat memory together with the signal data and which represents an analog pulse of high amplitude and fast rise time.

5. Device according to claim 4, characterized in that the blanking bar signal (281) is stored in the frame repeat memory (24) as a location group contain binary ONES.

6. Device according to claim 5, characterized in that the address location group (281) contains 16×

6 ONES.

7. Device according to claims 4, characterized in that the pulse generator (47) part of the digital-to-analog converter at the output of the frame repeat memory (24), which converts the digital data stored in the address group (281) to the analog pulse of fast rise time and especially high amplitude.

8. Device according to claim 7, characterized in that the digital-to-analog converter (47) is simultaneously the one which also converts the digital data of the analog signal (A).

9. Device according to claim 1, characterized in that the pulse generator (47) for the analog pulse of fast rise time and especially high amplitude is connected on the output side with a specific output device (Video Composite Output 30), over which the analog pulse together with the analog signal can be sent to a device-external signal receiver.

10. Device according to claim 9, characterized in that it has additionally a specific device input (Video Composite Input 31), over which analog signals with analog pulses can be received, which are given out by another device over the latter'"'"'s specific device output (Video Composite Output 30).

11. Device according to claim 10, characterized in that, after the specific input device (Video Composite Input 31), on the signal path (59) for the analog signal, a comparator (283) with a first input is connected, whose second compares the input signal with a reference voltage (V_ref) which is higher in value than the highest anticipated amplitude value of the analog voltage, which comparator (283) generates an output signal when an analog pulse of fast rise time and especially high amplitude arriving from the device input (Video Composite Input 31) exceeds the reference voltage of the comparator.

12. Device according to claim 11, characterized in that the output signal of the comparator (283) activates the z-generator (49) of the picture recording device (28) in the sense of the generation of an actuation pulse for the z-control section.

13. Device according to claim 12, characterized in that the line connection between actuation pulse generator (282) and z-generator (49) a switch (284) is located which during the period of time the Composite Video signal is selected, the line connection between actuating pulse generator (282) and z-generator (49) is interrupted and instead, the z-generator (49) is connected with the output of the comparator (283).

14. Device according to claim 1, characterized in that the actuating pulse generator (282) is a logic gate which generates an output signal for activation of the z-generator (49) only when at its input the stored blanking signal (281) of the frame repeat memory (24) occurs.

15. Device according to claim 1, characterized in that the duration of the actuation pulse for the z-control section is lengthened to produce a lengthened blanking bar.

16. Device according to claim 15, characterized in that the lengthening action is performed by a timing gate that generates an output signal depending upon the relative amplitudes of the control inputs.

17. Device according to claim 16, characterized in that the control inputs to the timing gate change to one polarity simultaneously and return to the other polarity in different times.