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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 31, 2017

Filed:

Dec. 20, 2011
Applicant:

Benjamin A. Ward, Portland, OR (US);

Inventor:

Benjamin A. Ward, Portland, OR (US);

Assignee:

TEKTRONIX, INC., Beaverton, OR (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 23/00 (2006.01); G01R 23/163 (2006.01); G06K 15/00 (2006.01); H04B 17/00 (2015.01); G06K 17/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 23/163 (2013.01); G06K 15/00 (2013.01); G06K 17/00 (2013.01); H04B 17/00 (2013.01);
Abstract

Embodiments of this invention include a test and measurement instrument and associated methods for acquiring and stitching wide overlapped non-uniform frequency bands so that a user specified band can be efficiently displayed and analyzed. The test and measurement instrument includes a user interface to receive the user specified frequency span. Acquisition circuitry acquires one or more predefined frequency bands having non-uniform overlapping frequency ranges. A frequency band processing section can decimate the acquired frequency bands, mask the acquired frequency bands, and stitch the masked frequency bands together. A display section displays the user specified frequency span using the stitched frequency bands. Due to the overlap configuration of the wide non-uniform bands, any user specified span between 50 kHz and 6 GHz, or thereabout, can be covered by two bands.


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