# hamming

Hamming window

## Description

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w = hamming(L) returns an L-point symmetric Hamming window.

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w = hamming(L,sflag) returns a Hamming window using the window sampling specified by sflag.

## Examples

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Create a 64-point Hamming window. Display the result using wvtool.

L = 64;
wvtool(hamming(L))

Design two Hamming windows:

• The first window has N = 64 and is symmetric.

• The second window has N = 63 and is periodic.

Display the two windows.

Hs = hamming(64,'symmetric');
Hp = hamming(63,'periodic');
wvt = wvtool(Hs,Hp);
legend(wvt.CurrentAxes,'Symmetric','Periodic')

## Input Arguments

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Window length, specified as a positive integer.

Data Types: single | double

Window sampling method, specified as:

• 'symmetric' — Use this option when using windows for filter design.

• 'periodic' — This option is useful for spectral analysis because it enables a windowed signal to have the perfect periodic extension implicit in the discrete Fourier transform. When 'periodic' is specified, the function computes a window of length L + 1 and returns the first L points.

## Output Arguments

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Hamming window, returned as a column vector.

## Algorithms

The following equation generates the coefficients of a Hamming window:

$w\left(n\right)=\begin{array}{cc}0.54-0.46\mathrm{cos}\left(2\pi \frac{n}{N}\right),& 0\le n\le N\end{array}.$

The window length L = N + 1.

## References

[1] Oppenheim, Alan V., Ronald W. Schafer, and John R. Buck. Discrete-Time Signal Processing. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1999.

## Extended Capabilities

### Functions

Introduced before R2006a