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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 24, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 21, 2007
Michael Keyhl, Heroldsberg, DE;
Christian Schmidmer, Nuremberg, DE;
Roland Bitto, Nuremberg, DE;
Opticom GmbH, Erlangen, DE;
Abstract
An apparatus for determining information in order to temporally align first and second information signals, each including one or several information values for successive sampling times, the apparatus including a characteristic extractor for extracting a characteristic per sampling time or per subsequence of sampling times from the first information signal within a first search pattern to obtain a first characteristic curve, and for extracting the characteristic per sampling time or per subsequence of sampling times from the second information signal within a second search pattern to obtain a second characteristic curve and a determiner for determining the information for temporal alignment based on similarities between the first and second characteristic curves of the characteristic by means of a first search for a search pattern from one of the first and second characteristic curves of the characteristic within the other of the first and second characteristic curves of the characteristic.