Real-time phase detection of frequency band

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016147964-A1
Application number	US-201514945139-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Nov 18, 2015
Priority date	Nov 21, 2014
Publication date	May 26, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

Techniques are described for real-time phase detection. For the phase detection, a signal is correlated with a frequency component of a frequency band whose phase is being detected, and the correlation includes predominantly decreasing weighting of past portions of the signals.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A method comprising:
receiving, with a processor of a medical device, a first signal generated from a second signal; correlating, with the processor of the medical device, the first signal with a frequency component of a frequency band of the second signal, wherein correlating includes predominantly decreasing weighting of past portions of the first signal, and wherein predominantly decreasing weighting of past portions of the first signal comprises predominantly weighting present and more recent portions of the first signal more heavily than earlier portions of the first signal, and wherein the frequency band includes one or more frequency components; determining, with the processor of the medical device, a phase of the frequency component based on a filtered signal outputted from the correlation; determining, with the processor of the medical device, a phase of the frequency band based on the determined phase of the frequency component; and instructing, with the processor of the medical device, a therapy module to deliver therapy based on the determined phase of the frequency band.

2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the first signal is one of:
the second signal pre-filtered to generate the first signal; or the same as the second signal.

3 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
determining a frequency weighting for the frequency component based on the filtered signal, wherein determining the phase of the frequency band comprises determining the phase of the frequency band based on the determined phase of the frequency component and the frequency weighting for the frequency component.

4 . The method of claim 1 , wherein determining the phase of the frequency band comprises:
adding or subtracting a phase delay caused from generating the first signal from the second signal to the determined phase of the frequency component; and determining the phase of the frequency band based on the result of the adding or subtracting.

5 . The method of claim 1 , wherein correlating the first signal with the frequency component of the frequency band of the second signal comprises:
correlating the first signal with one or more waveforms of a periodic basis set, wherein the frequency of the waveforms of the periodic basis set is the frequency component.

6 . The method of claim 5 , wherein the waveforms of the periodic basis set include a sine wave and a cosine wave.

7 . The method of claim 1 , wherein correlating the first signal with the frequency component of the frequency band of the second signal comprises:
Fourier transforming the first signal with an exponentially decreasing weighting of past portions of the first signal.

8 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
determining a phase of the filtered signal, wherein the phase of the filtered signal includes the phase of the frequency component and a phase error; determining the phase error; subtracting the determined phase error from the phase of the filtered signal to determine an initial estimate phase of the frequency component, wherein determining the phase of the frequency component comprises determining the phase of the frequency component based on the initial estimate phase of the frequency component.

9 . The method of claim 8 , further comprising:
applying at least one of a notch filter or a correction term to the initial estimate phase of the frequency component, wherein determining the phase of the frequency component based on the initial estimate comprises determining the phase of the frequency component based on the application of at least one of the notch filter or the correction term to the initial estimate phase of the frequency component.

10 . The method of claim 8 , wherein determining the phase error comprises:
correlating the first signal with the filtered signal; and determining a phase based on the result of the correlation of the first signal with the filtered signal, wherein the phase error comprises the phase that is determined based on the result of the correlation of the first signal with the filtered signal.

11 . The method of claim 10 , further comprising:
filtering a signal resulting from the correlation to generate a filtered correlated signal, wherein determining the phase based on the result of the correlation of the first signal with the filtered signal comprises determining the phase of the filtered correlated signal.

12 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the frequency component comprises a first frequency component of the frequency band, and a phase of the frequency component comprises a phase of the first frequency component, the method further comprising:
correlating the first signal with a second frequency component of the frequency band of the second signal, wherein correlating includes predominantly decreasing weighting of past portions of the first signal; and determining a phase of the second frequency component based on a filtered signal from the correlation of the first signal with the second frequency component, wherein determining the phase of the frequency band comprises determining the phase of the frequency band based on the determined phase of the first frequency component and the determined phase of the second frequency component.

13 . The method of claim 12 , further comprising:
determining a first frequency weighting for the first frequency component; and determining a second frequency weighting for the second frequency component, wherein determining the phase of the frequency band comprises determining the phase of the frequency band based on the determined phase of the first frequency component, the first frequency weighting for the first frequency component, the determined phase of the second frequency component, and the second frequency weighting for the second frequency component.

14 . The method of claim 13 , further comprising:
adding or subtracting a first phase delay to the phase of the first frequency component to generate a first delay accounted phase of the first frequency component; and adding or subtracting a second phase delay to the phase of the second frequency component to generate a second delay accounted phase of the second frequency component, wherein determining the phase of the frequency band comprises determining the phase of the frequency band based on the first delay accounted phase of the first frequency component, the first frequency weighting for the first frequency component, the second delay accounted phase of the second frequency component, and the second frequency weighting for the second frequency component.

15 . The method of claim 1 , wherein determining the phase of the frequency component comprises determining the phase of the frequency component in real-time, and wherein determining the phase of the frequency band comprises determining the phase of the frequency band in real-time.

16 . The method of claim 1 , wherein determining the phase of the frequency component comprises determining the phase of the frequency component without utilizing any portion of the second signal that follows in time from the point of the second signal at which the phase of the frequency component is determined, and wherein determining the phase of the frequency band comprises determining the phase of the frequency band without utilizing any portion of the second signal that follows in time from the point of the second signal at which the phase of the frequency band is determined.

17 . A medical device comprising:
frequency band phase detector comprising:

Assignees

• Medtronic Inc

Inventors

• Corey Robert A
• Loxtercamp Gregory J
• Orser Heather Diane
• Stanslaski Scott R
• Jackson Jadin C

Classifications

• A61B5/7257

  using Fourier transforms · CPC title

• A61B5/4088

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• A61B5/4839

  combined with drug delivery · CPC title

• A61B5/4094

  Diagnosing or monitoring seizure diseases, e.g. epilepsy · CPC title

• A61B5/686

  Permanently implanted devices, e.g. pacemakers, other stimulators, biochips (A61B5/6861 takes precedence) · CPC title