Data processing: measuring – calibrating – or testing – Measurement system – Measured signal processing
Reexamination Certificate
2007-09-11
2007-09-11
Barlow, John (Department: 2863)
Data processing: measuring, calibrating, or testing
Measurement system
Measured signal processing
C702S014000, C702S015000, C702S017000, C702S018000, C356S477000, C356S028500, C285S012000, C285S013000
Reexamination Certificate
active
11361491
ABSTRACT:
The invention pertains to the sensing and measurement of infrasound (pressure variations with frequency content under 10 Hertz). The invention measures the infrasound pressure variations and then attenuates undesired contributions due to, but not limited to, changes in ambient fluid speed and changes in altitude of the sensing device. The undesired contributions are attenuated using an adaptive filter with the measurements of the change in ambient fluid speed and the change in altitude. This approach differs from existing applications of adaptive filtering in that the invention uses measurements of speed and displacement to improve a pressure measurement. This approach differs from existing methods for attenuating the affects of the wind on the measurement of infrasound in that it does not require the use of a large spatial averaging filter.
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