Real-time, sound-quality-competitive, single-site from plural-site, anatomical audio signal selection
First Claim
1. A method employed in the gathering, for observation purposes, of desired-category anatomical audio signal information effectively from a selected anatomical region, said method comprisingplacing first and second audio signal sensors/detectors on the anatomy at selected locations of adjacency relative to such region,gathering, and competitively processing, the respective audio signals detected by these two sensors for the purpose of selecting, during a given, defined time-frame, one of these two detected signals as the higher-quality signal as such is determined by the review of certain pre-chosen quality-selection parameters, anddeclaring such selected higher-quality audio signal to be the one containing the desired-category audio signal information from the selected anatomical region during the defined time-frame.
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for gathering high-quality anatomical audio signals. Practice of the invention, which is illustrated herein in the context of heart-produced signals, is based upon gathering, and competitively processing audio signals collected simultaneously from two adjacent anatomical sites. Competitive processing examines these two signals in light of certain selected “quality” parameters, and thereby selects the better signal at a user-selected point in time.
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1. A method employed in the gathering, for observation purposes, of desired-category anatomical audio signal information effectively from a selected anatomical region, said method comprising
placing first and second audio signal sensors/detectors on the anatomy at selected locations of adjacency relative to such region, gathering, and competitively processing, the respective audio signals detected by these two sensors for the purpose of selecting, during a given, defined time-frame, one of these two detected signals as the higher-quality signal as such is determined by the review of certain pre-chosen quality-selection parameters, and declaring such selected higher-quality audio signal to be the one containing the desired-category audio signal information from the selected anatomical region during the defined time-frame.
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