25 results about "Decimation" patented technology

In digital signal processing, downsampling and decimation are terms associated with the process of resampling in a multi-rate digital signal processing system. Both terms are used by various authors to describe the entire process, which includes lowpass filtering, or just the part of the process that does not include filtering. When downsampling (decimation) is performed on a sequence of samples of a signal or other continuous function, it produces an approximation of the sequence that would have been obtained by sampling the signal at a lower rate (or density, as in the case of a photograph). The decimation factor is usually an integer or a rational fraction greater than one. This factor multiplies the sampling interval or, equivalently, divides the sampling rate. For example, if compact disc audio at 44,100 samples/second is decimated by a factor of 5/4, the resulting sample rate is 35,280. A system component that performs decimation is called a decimator.