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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 22, 2011
Filed:
Apr. 02, 2009
Applicant:
David E Smith, Corvallis, OR (US);
Inventor:
David E Smith, Corvallis, OR (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03C 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Circuitry and methods are provided. Voltage and current of an electrical load are scaled, biased and alternately sampled to derive a multiplexed signal. The multiplexed signal is used to control an oscillator so as to provide a multiplexed frequency-modulated signal. The multiplexed frequency-modulated signal is processed to improve linearity and to time-correlate signal content with discrete samplings of the load voltage and current. Control of a printer or other device is performed using the processed signal.