METHOD AND DEVICE FOR THE TECHNICAL SUPPORT OF THE ANALYSIS OF SIGNALS ACQUIRED BY MEASUREMENT, THE SIGNALS HAVING A TIME- AND SPACE-DEPENDENT SIGNAL CHARACTERISTIC

A method enables analysis of (e.g. bioelectric) signals acquired by measurement. The method provides N signals U for an observation space and each has a time- and space-dependent signal characteristic U. Digitized signals for a time period T have M time points and define an M×N matrix with M tuples of N signal values each. Signal values acquired at time t form an N-tuple Ūt=(U1, . . . , UN)t in a signal space. The method acquires all combinations of k tuples from the M tuples, and calculates distances between all tuples. Distance values are calculated and define edge lengths of a (k−1) simplex (SIM) with one simplex assigned to each combination of k time points. Quantity characteristics of the simplex (SIM) are encoded into color values (COL), and displays the colors in a combinatorial time lattice (CTL). Each lattice point (GP) is displayed with the color encoded for the assigned simplex.