Patent ID: 7019747

Claim:
A method for displaying data, wherein the available data in at least one dimension consists of samples p i with i=1, . . . N r , wherein the display is able to reproduce a number of N s samples, with N s <N r , wherein sets each of a number of N c =N r /N s samples are formed and each set of N c samples is reduced to a single value to adapt it to the amount of displayable samples N s , characterized in that each set of N c samples x i is replaced by the single value x t =max[(1−c i )y i +c i z i ] with i=1, 2, . . . N c , wherein: 1) y i is determined by the following steps: a. calculating a linear fit to the set of N c samples; b. estimating the standard deviation σ with respect to this fit; c. rejecting samples x i deviating more than a predetermined number of times σ from the fit determined in step a); and d. calculating a linear fit y i to the set of the non rejected samples; 2) z i is calculated by: z i =x i −y i ; 3) the standard deviation σ of z i is calculated; 4) for each value z i the value z i is calculated; 5) the significance c i of all N c samples is determined with c i ε(0,1) wherein c i ≈the normalized integral of f(M) between M=−∞ and z i /σ, with f(M)=the probability density function of the maximum M of the expected background distribution with N c samples; and 6) x t is determined by x t =max[(1−c i )y i +c i z i ].