Digital signal overflow correction apparatus

• Main Authors: JOHN ARMER, ERWIN JOHANN WITTMANN
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 22.04.1994
• Edition: 5
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRICITY; PHYSICS; PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION

When a positive or a negative overflow error condition is encountered, the present invention substitutes the most positive or most negative value for the erroneous sample. The sign bit of a potentially erroneous value is inverted to form the MSB of the substitute value, and this value is, in turn, i...