filter
and rejects frequencies outside this range. For example, for a DBS receiver that is to receive satellite transmitted microwave signals in a frequency range of 11 GHz to 12 GHz, a band-pass filter (BPF) would allow signals in this frequency range to pass through with minimum signal loss, while blocking all other frequencies. A low-pass filter (LPF)
would allow signals to pass with minimum signal loss as long as their frequency was less than a certain "cutoff frequency" above which significant signal blocking occurs.
an operator that transforms image intensity Ix of pixel x into a different intensity îx, depending on the values of a set of (usually neighboring) pixels (which may or may not include x). Filtering is performed to enhance significant features of an image or to remove nonsignificant ones or noise. filter bank a set of filters consisting of a bank of analysis filters and a bank of synthesis filters. The analysis filters decompose input signal spectra into a number of directly adjacent frequency bands for further processing, and the synthesis filters recombine the signal spectra from different frequency bands.
