RELATED PROPERTIES OF MINIMUM‐PHASE AND ZERO‐PHASE TIME FUNCTIONS *

In this paper properties of the discrete zero-phase time function are derived and compared with related properties of the discrete minimum-phase time function. The two-sided minimum-length signal is introduced and it is derived that, for any given amplitude spectrum, the two-sided minimum-length signal and the signal with zero-phase spectrum are identical signals. A comparison is made between the one-sided minimum-length signal (minimum-phase signal) and the two-sided minimum-length signal (zero-phase signal). A computational scheme is discussed which determines the zero-phase correspondent of a given signal. A method is proposed to compute zero-phase least-square inverse filters. The efficiency of minimum-phase and zero-phase least-square inverse filters is shown on signals with different phase properties. A criterion is derived which determines whether a symmetric time function has the zero-phase property. The close relationship with the minimum-phase criterion is discussed. Finally the relationship between signal length and resolving power is illustrated on numerical examples.