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Article: Texas Inventor Develops Fast-Convergence Two-Stage Automatic Gain Control
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- April 19, 2007
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 19 -- James Edward Nave of Denton, Texas, has developed methods and systems for automatic gain control in circuits.
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed methods and systems provide accurate and rapidly converging automatic gain control suited for video applications. According to disclosed preferred embodiments of the invention, a signal amplitude controlling method is responsive to gain underflow or overflow. A new fine gain control value is extrapolated and a new coarse gain control value is determined. The new fine gain and new coarse gain control values are applied to the signal to produce an output signal within a pre-selected output ...