scipy.signal.windows.

boxcar#

scipy.signal.windows.boxcar(M, sym=True)[source]#

Return a boxcar or rectangular window.

Also known as a rectangular window or Dirichlet window, this is equivalent to no window at all.

Parameters:
Mint

Number of points in the output window. If zero, an empty array is returned. An exception is thrown when it is negative.

symbool, optional

Whether the window is symmetric. (Has no effect for boxcar.)

Returns:
wndarray

The window, with the maximum value normalized to 1.

Examples

Plot the window and its frequency response:

>>> import numpy as np
>>> from scipy import signal
>>> from scipy.fft import fft, fftshift
>>> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
>>> window = signal.windows.boxcar(51)
>>> plt.plot(window)
>>> plt.title("Boxcar window")
>>> plt.ylabel("Amplitude")
>>> plt.xlabel("Sample")
>>> plt.figure()
>>> A = fft(window, 2048) / (len(window)/2.0)
>>> freq = np.linspace(-0.5, 0.5, len(A))
>>> response = 20 * np.log10(np.abs(fftshift(A / abs(A).max())))
>>> plt.plot(freq, response)
>>> plt.axis([-0.5, 0.5, -120, 0])
>>> plt.title("Frequency response of the boxcar window")
>>> plt.ylabel("Normalized magnitude [dB]")
>>> plt.xlabel("Normalized frequency [cycles per sample]")
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