Signal

Dilip Kumar 1
 Signal
− It is the variation pattern that conveys the
information, in a signal

− Signal may exist in many forms like acoustic, image,

video, electrical, heat & light signal
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 System
− An entity that responds to a signal

input system output

− Examples
▪ Circuit

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 System
▪ The camera

Image

▪ The Speech Recognition System

Identified

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 System
▪ The audio CD-player
− Block Diagram representation of a system
▪ Visual representation of a system

Input Signal Output Signal

system

▪ Shows inter-relations of many signals involved in the

implementation of a complex system
− Look at everything around and try to identify the signals and
systems !!
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 Mathematical Representation
− A signal can be represented as a function of one or
more independent variables
− Examples

v(t ) = sin (t ) 0  t  2

s (t ) 6
 Mathematical Representation
▪ The image is a function of two spatial variables

s(x, y )