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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 18, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 06, 2015
Stmicroelectronics S.r.l., Agrate Brianza, IT;
Andrea Lorenzo Vitali, Santa Clara, CA (US);
STMICROELECTRONICS S.R.L., Agrate Brianza, IT;
Abstract
The present disclosure is directed to multichannel transducer devices and methods of operation thereof. One example device includes at least two acquisition modules that have different sensitives and a signal processing stage that generates a blended signal representative of a lower gain signal mapped onto a higher gain signal. One example method of operation includes receiving a first signal from a first sensor having a first sensitivity, receiving a second signal from a second sensor having a second sensitivity that is different from the first sensitivity, generating a blended signal by mapping the second signal to the first signal, outputting the first signal while the first signal is below a first threshold and above a second threshold, and outputting the blended signal when the first signal is above the first threshold and when the first signal is below the second threshold.