Patent ID: 7130749

Claim:
A system for wavelet analysis of one or more signals to determine one or more characteristics of one or more anomalies in a wire, the system comprising: a library of one or more reference wavelet analysis results that each correspond to one or more known anomalies having one or more known characteristics; and an analysis module operable to: receive a first signal from a detector that has scanned a magnetic field from a wire comprising an anomaly, the first signal corresponding to a second signal used to generate the magnetic field; calculate a wavelet analysis result from a wavelet analysis of the first signal, the wavelet analysis result corresponding to the second signal; access the library; compare the wavelet analysis result with one or more reference wavelet analysis results; responsive to the wavelet analysis result corresponding to one or more particular reference wavelet analysis results, indicate that the anomaly in the wire has one or more particular known characteristics of one or more particular known anomalies corresponding to the one or more particular reference wavelet analysis results; and determine a location of the anomaly in the wire from the scanned magnetic field.