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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 22, 2011
Filed:
Oct. 26, 2009
Andrew Robert Thomas, Westford, MA (US);
Michael Drummy, North Reading, MA (US);
Andrew Robert Thomas, Westford, MA (US);
Michael Drummy, North Reading, MA (US);
Olympus NDT, Waltham, MA (US);
Abstract
A blending circuit is disclosed to be operable to combine plurality of digital outputs received from an analog to digital conversion system to create a composite digital signal. The analog to digital conversion system receives analog signals originated from multiple but substantially the same source signals, wherein the source signals being scaled to different degrees. A blending circuit deploys a blending factor to combine the digital outputs in a manner which blends and/or adjusts portion of each digital output being used to avoid over-flown portion of the digital outputs and to minimize phase and/or amplitude discontinuity of the composite digital signal.