Patent ID: 8879583
Filing Date: 2014-11-04
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A system comprising: a frequency demultiplexer configured to separate an input signal into a plurality of different signal components in respective contiguous frequency channels, each frequency channel comprising an octave or less of bandwidth; a plurality of signal component conditioning circuits operatively connected to the frequency demultiplexer, each signal component conditioning circuit corresponding to a separate frequency channel and comprising control signal generation circuitry and a channel switch connected to the output of both time domain processing circuitry and frequency domain processing circuitry, the control signal generation circuitry configured to generate a control signal to open a digital switch contained within the time domain processing circuitry and connected to the channel switch if any sampled portion of the signal component exceeds a reference voltage signal, the time domain processing circuitry configured to delay the signal component for a predetermined time to prevent the portion of the signal component exceeding the reference voltage signal from passing to the digital switch until the digital switch is open; and a frequency multiplexer, operatively connected to the channel switch of each of the plurality of signal component conditioning circuits, configured to combine the output of each of the signal component conditioning circuits into an output signal.