Patent Document ID: 7753856
Application ID: 12102470

Base Claim:
1. A method for cardio-acoustic signal analysis, comprising: receiving, via a signal receiver, a signal representative of heart sounds; transforming, via a processing unit, the received signal to represent a time, perceptual-frequency, amplitude domain; applying, via the processing unit, a human auditory system modeling algorithm to the time, perceptual frequency, amplitude domain representation to generate a time, perceptual-frequency, perceptual-loudness domain representation; and displaying, via a visualization unit, the received signal in the time, perceptual-frequency, perceptual-loudness domain representation.

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Claim 2:
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the transformation is based on inner product calculations using a finite impulse response (FIR) filter bank representing a non-linear frequency resolution.