Signal voter

Patent · Tue Apr 28 00:00:00 EDT 1981

OSTI ID:5746123

Goodwin, R L

A voter for providing a single accurate output signal that is derived from the closest two signal levels of three input signals , each of which signals represents a measurement of the same phenomena. By means of the voting circuit, the signals are first sorted by level of amplitude and then ranked as highest, middle or lowest. The highest or lowest signal that is furthest from the middle signal is rejected, while the other highest or lowest signal is selected for processing. The selected high or low signal is then averaged with the middle signal to provide the output signal.

• Assignee: Department of Energy
• Patent Number(s): US 4264955
• OSTI ID: 5746123
• Resource Relation: Patent File Date: Filed date 3 Nov 1978; Other Information: PAT-APPL-957633
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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