Patent Document ID: 20160004815
Application ID: 14790810
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A method of identifying a first peak signal corresponding to a first part of a sample from among other peak signals of other parts of the sample, the method comprising, at a computer system: receiving a data signal from an experiment involving the sample, the data signal having an amplitude that varies over time, wherein the data signal comprises a plurality of overlapped peaks at different times; transforming the data signal to obtain a two-dimensional array of coefficients corresponding to localized functions, each coefficient corresponding a localized function having a time location and a scale factor; identifying a first time region corresponding to a first peak of the first peak signal; removing the coefficients of the two-dimensional array corresponding to localized functions with time locations within the first time region; determining new coefficients for the two-dimensional array using a cut function that models tails of the other peak signals; using the new coefficients to obtain an altered two-dimensional array; performing an inverse transform of the altered two-dimensional array to obtain a background signal; and subtracting the background signal from the data signal to obtain the first peak signal corresponding to the first part of the sample.