Heart pacemaker with improved detection of electrical signals
First Claim
1. In a heart pacemaker supplied with electrical signals obtained from a heart, the improvement of a system for detecting said electrical signals comprising:
- means for acquiring electrical intracardial heart signals containing a signal of interest and having noise with a substantially chromatic spectrum superimposed on said signal of interest;
means for adaptive, non-linear filtering of said intracardial heart signals for converting the spectrum of the noise into a substantially white spectrum, thereby producing filtered signals; and
means for matched filtering of said filtered signals by correlating said filtered signals with a signal pattern corresponding to said signal of interest and generating a matched filter output having an amplitude indicative of the presence of said signal pattern in said filtered signal.
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Abstract
A heart pacemaker with improved detection of electrical signals which are used for triggering pacemaker functions, has a detection circuit for registering intracardial heart signals in which certain noise signals having a generally chromatic spectrum are superimposed on the signals to be detected, the detection circuit undertaking an adaptive, non-linear noise filter of those intracardial heart signals for converting the spectrum of the noise signals into an essentially white spectrum. The signals filtered by the non-linear noise filtering are supplied to a matched filter wherein correlation of these signals with a sought signal pattern takes place.
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1. In a heart pacemaker supplied with electrical signals obtained from a heart, the improvement of a system for detecting said electrical signals comprising:
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means for acquiring electrical intracardial heart signals containing a signal of interest and having noise with a substantially chromatic spectrum superimposed on said signal of interest; means for adaptive, non-linear filtering of said intracardial heart signals for converting the spectrum of the noise into a substantially white spectrum, thereby producing filtered signals; and means for matched filtering of said filtered signals by correlating said filtered signals with a signal pattern corresponding to said signal of interest and generating a matched filter output having an amplitude indicative of the presence of said signal pattern in said filtered signal. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A method for detecting said electrical signals in a heart pacemaker comprising the steps of:
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acquiring electrical intracardial heart signals containing a signal of interest and having noise with a substantially chromatic spectrum superimposed on said signal of interest; adaptively, non-linearly filtering said intracardial heart signals for converting the spectrum of the noise into a substantially white spectrum, thereby producing filtered signals; and matched filtering said filtered signals by correlating said filtered signals with a signal pattern corresponding to said signal of interest and generating a matched filter output having an amplitude indicative of the presence of said signal pattern in said filtered signal. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11)
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