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US 2010/0148757 A1Published application
Method of calibrating an instrument, a self-calibrating instrument and a system including the instrument
AssigneeAgilent Technologies, Inc.
InventorsMiao ZHU, John C. EIDSON
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Abstract
An instrument including a device, a transducer and a calibration module is disclosed. The device produces a reference time and/or a reference frequency. The transducer converts the reference time and/or the reference frequency to a reference signal. The calibration module adjusts an output signal generated by the instrument and/or a result of a measurement taken by the instrument, based on the reference signal. A system including the instrument and a method of calibrating the instrument are also disclosed.
Claims18
An instrument comprising:
- at least one of an output unit that generates an output signal and a measurement unit that performs a measurement to produce a measurement result:
- a device that produces at least one of a reference time and a reference frequency;
- a transducer that converts the at least one of the reference time and the reference frequency to a reference signal;
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- a calibration module that adjusts at least one of the output signal generated by the output unit and the result of a measurement taken by the measurement unit based on the reference signal.
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A system comprising:
- an instrument comprising:
- at least one of an output unit that generates an output signal and a measurement unit that performs a measurement to produce a measurement result;
- a device that produces at least one of a reference time and a reference frequency;
- a transducer that converts the at least one of the reference time and the reference frequency to a reference signal;
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- a calibration module that adjusts at least one of the output signal generated by the output unit and the result of a measurement taken by the measurement unit based on the reference signal.
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A method of calibrating an instrument comprising:
- one of generating an output signal and making a measurement to produce a measurement result;
- one of generating at least one of a reference time and a reference frequency, and receiving at least one of a time and a frequency to produce at least one of a reference time and a reference frequency respectively;
- converting the at least one of the reference time and the reference frequency to a reference signal;
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- adjusting at least one of the output signal and the measurement result based on the reference signal.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.