Appeal No. 96-1977
Application No. 08/348,389
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is an appeal from the final rejection of claims 1
through 7, 30 and 31.
The disclosed invention relates to a method for obtaining
and presenting digital data as being in either a first logic
state or a second logic state, and to a method for communicating
both analog and digital information to an instrument user.
Claims 1 and 30 are illustrative of the claimed invention,
and they read as follows:
1. A method for obtaining and presenting digital data comprising
the steps of:
performing multi-bit A/D conversion on an input signal at a
plurality of sample times to obtain a series of multi-bit digital
sample values with each sample value being associated with a
corresponding sample time;
providing a logic level abstraction threshold as a
reference; and
comparing sample values to the logic level abstraction
threshold to establish whether each sample value is in a first
logic state or a second logic state.
30. A method for communicating both analog and digital
information to an instrument user comprising the steps of:
displaying an analog waveform representation of an input
signal;
supplying the user with a cursor positionable along the time
axis of the analog waveform display, the cursor having a current
position; and
presenting a readout of a digital value of the analog signal
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