Patent ID: 8098785

Claim:
A signal processing circuit operable to determine timing for sampling an input signal that causes a pulsative change, comprising: a change point detection circuit configured to detect a pulsative change point of the input signal, wherein a phase point which is shifted by a predetermined phase difference from the pulsative change point of the input signal detected by the change point detection circuit is set as timing for sampling the input signal, wherein the change point detection circuit comprises: a first differential calculator configured to obtain a difference value between a plurality of sampling values of the input signal at first sampling times, a second differential calculator configured to obtain a difference value between a plurality of sampling values of the input signal at second sampling times different from the first sampling times of the sampling values processed by the first differential calculator, and third differential calculator configured to obtain a difference value between the difference values obtained by the first and second differential calculators, and wherein the change point detection circuit detects the pulsative change point of the input signal based on the difference value obtained by the third differential calculator.