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This chapter introduces concepts of digital signal processing (DSP) and reviews an overall picture of its applications. Illustrative application examples include digital noise filtering, signal frequency analysis, speech and audio compression, biomedical signal processing such as interference cancellation in electrocardiog-raphy, compact-disc recording, and image enhancement.
Digital signal processing (DSP) technology and its advancements have dramatically impacted our modern society everywhere. Without DSP, we would not have digital/Internet audio or video; digital recording; CD, DVD, and MP3 players; digital cameras; digital and cellular telephones; digital satellite and TV; or wire and wireless networks. Medical instruments would be less efficient or unable to provide useful information for precise diagnoses if there were no digital electrocardiography (ECG) analyzers or digital x-rays and medical image systems. We would also live in many less efficient ways, since we would not be equipped with voice recognition systems, speech synthesis systems, and image and video editing systems. Without DSP, scientists, engineers, and technologists would have no powerful tools to analyze and visualize data and perform their design, and so on.
The concept of DSP is illustrated by the simplified block diagram in Figure 1.1, which consists of an analog filter, an analog-to-digital conversion (ADC) unit, a digital signal (DS) processor, a digital-to-analog conversion (DAC) unit, and a reconstruction (anti-image) filter.
As shown in the diagram, the analog input signal, which is continuous in time and amplitude, is generally encountered in our real...
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