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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 13, 2011
Filed:
Oct. 03, 2008
Paul Stanley Addison, Edinburgh, GB;
James Watson, Dunfermline, GB;
David Clifton, Edinburgh, GB;
Nellcor Puritan Bennett Ireland, Mervue Galway, IE;
Abstract
The present disclosure is directed towards embodiments of systems and methods for discriminating (e.g., masking out) scale bands that are determined to be not of interest from a scalogram derived from a continuous wavelet transform of a signal. Techniques for determining whether a scale band is not of interest include, for example, determining whether a scale band's amplitude is being modulated by one or more other bands in the scalogram. Another technique involves determining whether a scale band is located between two other bands and has energy less than that of its neighboring bands. Another technique involves determining whether a scale band is located at about half the scale of another, more dominant (i.e., higher energy) band.