Waveform correction apparatus

• US 5,802,108 A
• Filed: 01/26/1996
• Issued: 09/01/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 01/26/1996
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: United Microelectronics Corporation
• Original Assignee: United Microelectronics Corporation
• Inventors: Kao, Chih-Kuang
• Primary Examiner(s): Chin, Stephen
• Assistant Examiner(s): DEPPE, BETSY LEE
• Application Number:
  US08/592,534
• Time in Patent Office: 949 Days
• Field of Search: 375/245, 375/243, 375/244, 375/254, 375/247, 375/241, 375/242, 375/316, 375/340, 375/317, 341/143, 341/200, 327/100, 327/307
• US Class Current: 375/245
• CPC Class Codes: H03M 3/022 with adaptable step size, e.g. adaptive delta modulation [ADM]
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 14/064 with adaptive feedback
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/062 Setting decision thresholds using feedforward techniques only

Abstract

A waveform correction apparatus is disclosed. The waveform correction apparatus includes a signal generator for generating a signal; a maximal value recorder for recording a maximal value of the signal waveform; a minimal value recorder for recording a minimal value of the signal waveform; a difference value generator for generating a difference value of the maximal value and the minimal value; and a comparative controller for comparing the difference value with a reference value. The comparative controller outputs a corrected waveform when the difference value is larger than the reference value, otherwise it outputs the original waveform generated by the waveform generator. The corrected waveform is formed by shifting up or down the original waveform by a constant value.

Claims

1. An apparatus for correcting the waveform of a signal, comprising:

a signal generator for generating the signal;

a maximal value recorder for recording a local maximal value of the waveform of the signal;

a minimal value recorder for recording a local minimal value of the waveform of the signal;

a difference value generator for generating a difference value according to the local maximal value and the local minimal value;

a comparative controller for comparing the difference value with a reference value;

the comparative controller outputting the signal when the difference value is smaller than the reference value, and when the difference value is larger than the reference value outputting a signal that has been shifted, thereby providing a corrected waveform.

2. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the difference value is equal to a difference between the maximal value and the minimal value.

3. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the corrected waveform is formed by shifting up or down the waveform.

4. The apparatus as claimed in claim 3, wherein the waveform is shifted up or down by one half of the difference value.

5. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the signal generator includes:

a decoder for receiving a digital signal;

a step controller for generating a quantified value to the decoder;

an adder for accumulating a quantified signal to be the signal for correcting; and

a delay forming a feedback for the adder.

6. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the signal generator is a decoder portion of an Adaptive Delta Modulation (ADM) circuit.

7. A method for correcting waveform of an input signal, comprising the steps of:

recording a local maximal value of the waveform of the input signal;

recording a local minimal value of the waveform of the input signal;

finding a difference value according to the local maximal value and the local minimal value;

comparing the difference value with a reference value; and

shifting the waveform when the difference value is larger than the reference value, and retaining the waveform when the difference value is smaller than the reference value.

8. The method as claimed in claim 7, wherein the difference value is equal to a difference between the maximal value and the minimal value.

9. The method as claimed in claim 7, wherein the waveform is corrected by either being shifted up or down a constant distance.

10. The method as claimed in claim 9, wherein the constant is one half of the difference value.

11. The method as claimed in claim 7 wherein the input signal is an analog signal which is decoded from a digital signal.