Patent ID: 6377260
Filing Date: 2002-04-23
Classification: G06T

Abstract:
A method of obtaining a time history of a signal without having to integrate information on magnitude versus time and phase versus time by separately displaying sets of real and imaginary components of a signal verses time, comprising the steps of:a) sampling the signal in time, where each time sample of the signal is described by a real and imaginary component, b) selecting a user-definable size of a display on a screen, where the display includes an X-axis, a Y-axis, and a Z-axis; c) determining the real and imaginary components for each time sample of the signal; d) selecting a user-definable number of samples to be displayed at any one instance; and e) displaying each time sample according to its real component along the X-axis, the imaginary component along the Y-axis, and the time associated with the time sample along the Z-axis.