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Window function

Window functions are applied to avoid discontinuities at the beginning and the end of a set of data. The smaller these discontinuities are, the faster side slopes are dopping. The maximum order of deriviation which is zero at the ends determines the asymptodic behave:

There is an intrinsic trade-off problem between:

The following window are normalized for a MDCT on the range of [-1,+1].

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1 Non-power-preserving analysis windows

    Non-power-preserving analysis windows 

Rechtangular windows

Full size window. Actually this is a MDCT without window.

f(x) = 1 for |x| < 1 , 0 otherwise

Sometimes also written as

f(x) = sqrt(1/2) for |x| < 1 , 0 otherwise

Half size window. Actually this is a DCT Type ???

f(x) = 1 for |x| < 1/2 , 0 otherwise

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Image of f(x) and spectral resolution[?]

Triangular (aka Bartlett) window

f(x) = 1 - |x| for |x| < 1, 0 otherwise

Image of f(x) and spectral resolution[?]

Hamming/van Hann window

f(x) = a0 - a1 * cos(w)

van Hann window: a0 = , a1 = hamming window: a0 = , a1 =

Blackman/Blackman Harris windows

f(x) = a0 - a1 * cos(w) + a2 * cos(2w) - a3 * cos(3w)

Blackman: a0 = , a1 = , a2 = , a3 = Blackman Harris: a0 = , a1 = , a2 = , a3 = Blackman Nuttall: a0 = , a1 = , a2 = , a3 =

Bartlett-Hann Window

Mixture of Barlett and van Hann window:

f(x) = a0 - a1 * cos(w) - a2 * |x|

a0 = , a1 = , a2 =

Bessel window

f(x) =

    Power-preserving analysis windows 

Sine window

f(x) = sin(w/2)

Kaiser-Bessel-derived (KBD) window

For 0 <= x <= 1:

f(x) = Int

For x > 1:

f(x) = 0

For x < 0:

f(x) = f(-x)

Other power-preserving windows

    Multiple overlap windows 

When using FFT or DCT for spectral analysis a sample belongs to [b]one[/b] analysis window. When using windowing samples at the boundaries are attenuated. To reduce the effect that these samples are less important for the result, normally windows were overlapped. So samples between two blocks are attenuated, but they belong to two blocks, so their influence is still (nearly) the same as samples which are not attenuated. But it is possible to overlap more than two windows. This typically makes the transition band between main slope and side slopes smaller.

Triple overlapped cosine window

The normal cosine window do not preserve the power of the signal. Samples which are exactly between two blocks are attenuated by 6 dB, i.e. their power is reduced by a factor of 0.25. The overlapping reduces this to a factor of 0.5, which still result