Siemens Medical Systems, Inc.

Siemens Medical Electronics, Inc.

Mark S Egler

An apparatus and method for displaying a time history of a vectorcardiogram. The method enables a clinician to create a history of a three-dimensional vectorcardiogram from an arbitrary time axis and over an arbitrary time range. The apparatus allows the clinician to select a given viewpoint axis from a plurality of selectable viewpoint axes as well as the period of history to be displayed. The apparatus can also display multiple time histories simultaneously on the same display. This allows the display, side by side, of a traditional vectorcardiogram and the same vectorcardiogram as viewed from an arbitrary axis or time. This also enables the clinician to view a vectorcardiogram from various viewpoints simultaneously.

Display system and method for three-dimensional vectorcardiograms

In a receiver for receiving an information signal including digital information samples which are contaminated with an interference component having known frequency characteristics, a filter is provided having a signal generator responsive to at least a portion of the received signal for generating an output signal having the frequency characteristics of the interference component and an amplitude and phase controlled by the portion of the received signal. A combiner combines the generator output signal with the received signal for generating a filtered output signal having the interference component substantially removed therefrom, which is then applied to an interpolator. In response to the identification of incorrect digital information samples in the received signal, control of the generator by that portion of the received digital information signal which contains the samples identified as incorrect is disabled. In this manner the generator 'free-runs' during the receipt of incorrect samples, thereby allowing it to continue to provide samples representative of the known characteristics of the interference component until correct samples are again received.

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Mark S Egler