Electrical pulse counter with average circuit smoothing - using bit-serial or bit-parallel instantaneous averaging with data used as parameters for measured quantity

摘要

The method is for counting electrical pulses when continuous counter output averaging is applicable to electronic digital counters by using bit-parallel or bit-serial averaging. It is designed to produce the average value at each measurement instant. A number of pulses entering a digital counter in a given time interval is summed and an exponentially varying average value formed in a processor. The data used as parameters for the measured quantity are the pulse frequency, the time interval, or both. The method results in a smoothing of the digital display as compared to individual value measurements.