Patent ID: 8290032

Claim:
A distortion identification apparatus that identifies non-linear distortion caused by a digitizer that converts an analog signal input thereto into a digital signal, comprising: a signal output control section that inputs to the digitizer a reference signal whose frequency changes at each prescribed measurement cycle; a data extracting section that extracts a number of pieces of data corresponding to an integer multiple of a period of the reference signal in each measurement cycle, from pieces of data of a reference digital signal output by the digitizer according to the reference signal that come after a prescribed wait interval has passed since an initiation timing of each measurement cycle; a distortion identifying section that calculates the non-linear distortion caused by the digitizer for each frequency of the reference signal, based on the data in each measurement cycle extracted by the data extracting section; and a distortion calculating section that calculates the non-linear distortion caused by the digitizer when the analog signal input to the digitizer has a frequency that differs from any of the plurality of frequencies at which the reference signal transitions, based on the non-linear distortion detected by the distortion identifying section for each frequency.