Communications: directive radio wave systems and devices (e.g., radar, radio navigation) inventions 05/07

20070120728 - Radar warning receiver with position and velocity sensitive functions: A GPS enabled radar detector dynamically handles radar sources based upon previously-stored geographically-referenced information on such sources and data from the GPS receiver. The detector includes technology for determining the location of the detector, and comparing this location to the locations of known stationary sources, to improve the handling of... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, LLP

20070120729 - System and method for providing airport financial reports: A system and method for receiving a first set of data for a plurality of aircraft landings at an airport, receiving a second set of data corresponding to the plurality of aircraft landings at the airport, the second set of data being received from a passive radar data source and... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20070120730 - Radar signal processor: A radar signal processor has means for outputting a predetermined observation signal from a reflected wave caught by an array element, means for extracting an observation signal component concerning a target from the observation signal, means for computing a sample correlation matrix showing a correlation characteristic between the observation means... Agent: Wolf, Block, Schorr & Solis-cohen LLP

20070120731 - System and method for reducing the effect of a radar interference signal: A system and method are provided to reduce the effect of an interfering signal in a radar return signal for a frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar. Once the interfering signal is detected, an extent of the interfering signal is determined and the data that was corrupted by the interfering... Agent: Valeo Raytheon Systems, Inc. C/o Daly, Crowley, Mofford And Durkee, LLP

20070120732 - High frequency module: Heretofore, a plurality of packages were used in a high frequency module in which a plurality of waveguide terminals were positioned resulting in problems, such as degradation of characteristics in the connection lines between packages, lower ease of assembly when mounting and connecting the connection lines, increased cost, and so... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070120733 - Multiple-gnss and fdma high precision carrier-phase based positioning: Three new methods are presented to improve floating solutions and ambiguity resolution for multiple global satellite navigation systems (GNSS), one of which may be an FDMA-based GNSS such as GLONASS: (1) modeling of the hardware-related differential clock error between two (or more) different GNSS, (2) modeling the frequency-dependent biases present... Agent: Bruce D. Riter Pmb 208

20070120734 - Global positioning apparatus and method for using a temperature compensated oscillator to perform a position fix: A global positioning receiver unit utilizes a temperature compensated oscillator and a unit controller. The temperature compensated oscillator generates a clock signal, and the unit controller is configured to track GPS time based on the clock signal while the receiver unit is in a sleep state. The unit controller is... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070120735 - Method and system for processing positioning signals based on predetermined message data segment: A method and system for determining a geolocation of an object includes collecting a positioning signal including a predetermined message data segment. A time of arrival of the predetermined message data segment may be determined in the positioning signal. Information based on the time of arrival may be provided for... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20070120736 - Method and system for discrete location triggering for enhanced asset management and tracking: A method and system for discrete location triggering for enhanced asset management and tracking. The system includes an electronic discrete location tracking device affixed to the discrete location and configured to transmit a signal from the discrete location. The system also includes an electronic location trigger processing module to receive... Agent: General Electric Company Global Research

20070120737 - Method and system for providing location assistance information to a mobile station: A method for providing location assistance information to a mobile station of a communications network is discussed. Visibilities of a plurality of satellites of a satellite positioning system with respect to the mobile station are estimated. A group of said plurality of satellites with the best estimated visibilities with respect... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070120738 - Systems and methods for tdoa/fdoa location: Systems and methods that may be implemented to determine the location of an emitter of electromagnetic radiation, such as an RF signal emitter having an unknown location, using at least two electromagnetic radiation sensor antennas that are co-located on a single sensing platform in combination with at least one other... Agent: O'keefe, Egan, Peterman & Enders LLP

20070120739 - Method of and apparatus for eliminating quadrature-generated signals in magnetic cross-loop antennas: A technique for reducing radio frequency signal navigation errors in systems such as Loran-C and the like, comprising the use of an orthogonally crossed pair of antenna windings on a ferrite cross, tuned to the carrier radio frequency to generate from the received signals both in-phase and quadrature circulating current... Agent: Rines & Rines

20070115163 - Radar altering structure using specular patterns of conductive material: A radar altering structure comprises: a structure; and at least one layer of conductive material disposed at at least one surface of the structure, the layer comprising a plurality of conductive paths arranged in a specular pattern to reduce the radar cross section of the structure.... Agent: Calfee Halter & Griswold, LLP

20070115164 - Microwave smart motion sensor for security applications: A dual mode motion sensor for detecting both motion of a moving target and a range of the moving target. The dual mode motion sensor normally operates in a pulse transmission mode. If motion is detected, the sensor automatically switches to a frequency modulated continuous wave transmission mode. This will... Agent: Honeywell Law Department Patent Services

20070115165 - Extension of aircraft tracking and positive identification from movement areas into non-movement areas: At most airports, responsibility of air traffic control starts and stops at the entrance or exit to the runway movement areas, which are taxiways and runways. In the non-movement areas, such as hangers, ramps, and aprons, aircraft movements and separation are no longer the responsibility of air traffic control, but... Agent: Robert Platt Bell Registered Patent Attorney

20070115166 - Procedure and a device for measuring distance:

20070115167 - Resin product and process for producing the same, and process for forming metal film: A resin product (e.g., a millimeter-wave radar device cover) comprises a plate-like resin substrate, a base film formed on the resin substrate, and a metallic gloss film having a discontinuous structure formed on the base film, a top coat, a block coat, or the like being formed as a protective... Agent: Posz Law Group, PLC

20070115168 - Radar apparatus: In a radar apparatus having a plurality of antennas having switches respectively, malfunctions of the switches are detected by comparing the reception signal levels of the respective antennas with one another. Specifically, if the difference among the reception signal levels is at least a predetermined value, it is determined that... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20070115169 - Radar system: To obtain a radar system capable of obtaining an appropriate angular precision by calculating an angle error based on distributions of relative speeds and angles of reflecting points, and of obtaining the appropriate angular precision including an axis deviation angle by simultaneously calculating the angle error and the axis deviation... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070115170 - Transmitting-receiving module of radar system: A transmitting-receiving module of a radar system which is an embodiment of the present invention, includes, a transmitting circuit for sending transmitting RF signal, a three terminal circulator having three terminals and with the first terminal of which is connected a transmitting-receiving antenna, a first RF switch which is connected... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070115171 - Methods and apparatus to detect and correct integrity failures in satellite positioning system receivers: Methods and apparatus to detect integrity failures in satellite position system (SPS) receivers are disclosed. An example method comprises estimating a position fix from a plurality of pseudoranges, computing a zero-mean error vector based upon the position fix; and determining if an integrity failure has occurred based on the zero-mean... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20070115172 - Cumulant-based discriminator for gnss code alignment: Systems and methods for a cumulant-based discriminator for global navigation satellite system code alignment are provided. In one embodiment, a method for determining a misalignment between a GNSS coarse acquisition code signal and a replica code is provided. The method comprises producing code samples of a spread spectrum signal received... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070115173 - Satellite antenna positioning system: A system and method for automatically positioning an antenna aperture on a mobile platform in a manner to avoid blockages created by other components/subsystems on the mobile platform between the line of sight of the antenna aperture and a satellite and to avoid interference with other systems that share the... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, PLC

20070115174 - Direction finding and mapping in multipath environments: Determining the direction of a direct arrival path between a receiver and a transmitter in a multipath environment by determining a transmitter heading relative to the receiver as proportional to a frequency offset of the direct path signal component relative to a multipath pedestal, an absolute velocity of the transmitter... Agent: Davis & Bujold, P.l.l.c.

20070115175 - Handheld gps jammer locator: A handheld GPS jammer locator for locating a GPS jamming signal generated by a jammer. The handheld GPS jammer locator has two modes of operation, a amplitude mode and a difference finding mode. The amplitude measures the strength of an incoming GPS jamming signal and the difference finding mode determines... Agent: Navairwd Counsel Group

20070115176 - Land-based local ranging signal methods and systems: To provide sub-meter accuracy in a local positioning system, ranging signals with a high modulation rate of code, such as 30 MHz, or more are transmitted. Code phase measurements may be used to obtain the accuracy without requiring relative motion or real time kinematic processing. The ISM or X-band is... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070109176 - Radar: A radar including a target measurement component, a differential velocity calculator and an overall velocity determination portion. The target measurement component transmits and receives an electromagnetic wave over a detection range repeatedly at measurement intervals to measure a position of a target in the detection range and measure a Doppler... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070109175 - Spread spectrum radar apparatus: A spread spectrum radar apparatus includes: a pseudo-noise code generation unit that generates two or more transmitter pseudo-noise codes which are respectively different and two or more receiver pseudo-noise codes which are respectively different, based on a timing signal; a spreading modulation unit that generates a spread signal by modulating... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070109177 - Multi-dimensional imaging method and apparatus: A method, an antenna, and a system for determining positions for reflection points using microwaves. An electromagnetic wave signal is generated at a defined frequency, and transmitted by an antenna unit the antenna unit includes a transmitter antenna and a plurality of receiver antennas, separated by a known spacing perpendicular... Agent: Albihns Stockholm Ab

20070109178 - Waveguide transition: A waveguide transition for a fill level radar may include a printed circuit board in which a resonator is integrated. Together with a coupling element, the resonator is used for decoupling high-frequency waves from a feed line, that is also integrated in the printed circuit board, to a waveguide that... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20070109180 - Gain compensation in an ultra-wideband transceiver: A circuit for providing gain compensation to a swept frequency response in an ultra-wideband system includes using a variable amplitude IF signal into a gigahertz mixer to control the amplitude of a ultra-wideband transmitter. The variable amplitude IF signal is generated by a multiplier receiving a fixed-level intermediate frequency (IF)... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20070109179 - Monostatic radar beam optimization: A method and system for optimizing transmit beam and receive beam antenna radiation patterns. The method includes inputting initial estimate of beam weights for a transmit beam and a receive beam to an optimizer; and using a cost function to optimize beam weights so that a response peaks in a... Agent: Klein, O'neill & Singh, LLP

20070109181 - Network system for onboard equipment: An onboard equipment network system comprises a radar core device, a GPS core device, an echo sounder core device and a sonar core device and display devices which are connected to a network through a hub. Each core device includes a detecting section or a positioning section, as well as... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070109182 - System and method for adaptive broadcast radar system: An adaptive broadcast radar system for tracking targets is disclosed. The radar system includes a transmitter having sub-apertures and a receiver having sub-apertures. The transmitter sub-apertures generate and code a signal waveform. The signal waveform is coded with data about the transmitter, including the degrees of freedom. The receiver receives... Agent: Marsh, Fischmann & Breyfogle LLP

20070109183 - Multi-beam transmitting/receiving apparatus and transmitting/receiving method: A multibeam transmitting/receiving apparatus is provided that is capable of increasing the accuracy of a direction in which a transmission beam is to be transmitted, with a simple arrangement. Signal power measuring units (8-1 through 8-L) of signal processing means (40-1 through 40-L) measure reception signal power levels averaged over... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20070109184 - Novas hybrid positioning technology using terrestrial digital broadcasting signal (dbs) and global positioning system (gps) satellite signal: A positioning method using global positioning system (GPS) signal and digital broadcasting system (DBS) signal. The method includes detecting a presence status of the GPS signal through a signal detector in a receiver, detecting a presence status of the DBS signal through the signal detector, determining the signal strength of... Agent: Carlton Fields, Pa

20070109186 - Position measuring method and mobile communication terminal: When a user of a mobile communication terminal makes a request for a position-measuring of a current location, at step S101, a position-measuring method determining section checks a position-measuring method specified. When the method specified is a “cell ID position-measuring”, and it is performed, when the method specified is a... Agent: Armstrong, Kratz, Quintos, Hanson & Brooks, LLP

20070109185 - Providing gps pseudo-ranges: A vehicle location determination system and method includes a vehicle-mounted position determining system, including a computer for executing position determining software, and at least one aiding data source such as a global positioning system (GPS) receiver, an odometer, gyroscope, a short-range radio link or a map database. In response to... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070109187 - Radar detection, tracking and recording system: This invention describes a device that will detect the use of radar by law enforcement and combine that information with the current location and time. The information will be recorded and loaded into software database that will aggregate the information for analysis to determine where the use of radar by... Agent: Gary Murphy

20070109188 - Satellite and local system position determination: In a local positioning system, augmentation of the land-based system is provided by receiving signals from a GNSS. The signals from the land-based positioning system have a code phase accuracy better than one wavelength of a carrier of the signals from the GNSS. Different decorrelation may be used for signals... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070109189 - False reacquisition mitigation in high sensitivity navigational satellite signal receivers: The techniques to detect and mitigate the false reacquisition in a global satellite navigation receiver are disclosed. The false reacquisition due to frequency side-lobes and code autocorrelation secondary lobes are considered for mitigation. A set of two threshold values is used to detect correct reacquisition and reject false reacquisition. While... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLPIPProsecution Department

20070109190 - Antenna failure detection: The present invention provides an apparatus, method, and computer-executable program for detecting antenna failures in directional antennas. In particular, the present invention compares a bearing calculated from received positional data concerning a target to the bearing of the target determined using the directional antenna. If the calculated bearing and the... Agent: Squire Sanders & Dempsey LLP

20070109191 - Antenna array including virtual antenna elements: A method and associated system for effectively increasing the number of antenna elements within a multi-element antenna system through computation of a response of “virtual” antenna elements located along an antenna array. The physical elements of the array are positioned sufficiently near each other to enable synthesis of a polynomial... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070109192 - Method and apparatus for processing navigation data in position determination: Methods and apparatuses for the processing of false alarms in position determination. At least one embodiment of the present invention estimates and uses measurement false alarm probabilities in the position determination process. In one embodiment, the estimated measurement false alarm probabilities are combined to determine the reliability of the determined... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070103359 - Methods of estimating precipitation characteristics: A method of estimating precipitation characteristics including acquiring a radar image including at least a vertical plane of a precipitation zone; processing a vertical profile to generate digital signals representative of reflectivity in vertical direction z; integrating the signals representative of reflectivity by assimilation of a reflectivity vertical profile in... Agent: Ip Group Of Dla Piper US LLP

20070103360 - Radar: A radar wherein a first threshold value is determined in accordance with the intensity of background noise; second threshold values are set in a fixed frequency area around base portions of peaks in the frequency spectrum; the higher one in of these second threshold values is adopted as a decisive... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070103361 - Shielded compartment for mounting a high frequency radar component on a printed circuit board: The shielded mounting module comprises a cover member (216) and a box member (218). The box member (218) includes a plurality of bosses (220a-d) formed in the bottom surface. Each of the bosses (220a-d) provide an electrical contact point and are soldered to corresponding electrical pads (222a-d) on a circuit... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070103362 - System and method for detection and tracking of targets: System and method for detection and tracking of targets, which in a preferred embodiment is based on the use of fractional Fourier transformation of time-domain signals to compute projections of the auto and cross ambiguity functions along arbitrary line segments. The efficient computational algorithms of the preferred embodiment are used... Agent: Jones Day

20070103363 - Method for the location of mobile terminals: The location of a mobile terminal in a given area is determined by including the mobile terminal both in a satellite-based positioning system and in a cellular communications system. The mobile terminal is thus adapted to receive satellite signals from the satellite-based system and to be covered by at least... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070103364 - Determining position without use of broadcast ephemeris information: Devices and methods are described for determining position information without broadcast ephemeris data for extended time periods. A server or client device receives or collects historical state data of satellites of a satellite-based positioning system and generates predictions of future satellite trajectories for future time periods. When a server generates... Agent: Jonathan W. Hallman Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070103365 - System and method for providing aided gps positioning via satellite digital radio system: A system and method for providing aiding information to a satellite positioning system (“SPS”) receiver. A digital satellite radio system satellite receives aiding information communicated from a positioning system. The digital satellite radio system broadcasts the aiding information in the data signals it broadcasts to its subscribers. The subscribers receive... Agent: The Eclipse Group

20070103366 - Antenna system for tracking moving object mounted satellite and its operating method: An improved satellite tracking antenna system mounted to a moving object and a method for operating the same detect and track elevation and azimuth angles of a satellite using only two gyro sensors in a two-axis satellite tracking antenna system, and detect and track an azimuth angle of the satellite... Agent: William Collard Collard & Roe, P.C.

20070096974 - Blending of sensors to produce alternate sensor characteristics: A method and system generates data within a middle range without a mid-range sensor by combining data within a high and low range. The example system uses high range satellite sensors and a low range sensor disposed within an ECU to obtain a first set of data in the high... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070096975 - Signal processing with reduced combinational complexity: Signal processing with reduced combinatorial complexity for tracking evolving phenomena such as radar tracks associated with weighted measurement parameters includes selecting a current phenomenon and obtaining a set of measurement parameters associated with it. Beginning at a start node providing a first parent node having an identity, an identity for... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20070096976 - Process for the evaluation of signals in an sar/mti pulsed radar system: The invention relates to a process for the evaluating a received signal of an SAR/MTI pulsed radar system that transmits SAR and MTI pulses with respective definable pulse repetition frequency PRF_and PRF_MTI, such that the received signal is a superimposition consisting of echo pulse sequences of SAR and MIT echo... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070096978 - Method and apparatus for mitigating multipath effects at a satellite signal receiver using a sequential estimation filter: A method and apparatus for mitigating multipath effects in a satellite signal receiver is described. The method includes computing at least one pseudorange residual as a function of (i) a measured pseudorange to a given satellite, and (ii) an expected pseudorange to the given satellite, which is derived by mathematically... Agent: Raymond R. Moser Jr., Esq. MoserIPLaw Group

20070096977 - Multitarget tracking antispoofing receiver: A multitarget tracking antispoofing receiver utilizes multitarget tracking algorithms and multiple correlators for tracking signals of interest in a field of view about a nominal trajectory of a desired true signal for tracking targets within the code phase and carrier frequency signal space so as to predict when true and... Agent: Carole A. Mulchinski The Aerospace Corporation

20070096979 - Integrated aeroelasticity measurement system: An aircraft aeroelasticity measurement system according to the invention can be used to perform in-flight wing twist measurements of an aircraft or any moving vehicle or structure on which its sensors can be mounted. The system includes a centralized processing unit, a reference navigation unit mounted in the aircraft body,... Agent: Ingrassia Fisher & Lorenz, P.C.

20070096980 - Multiband gnss receiver: RF receiver (40) for GNSS signals, (GPS, Galileo, Glonass), composed of a single chip (45) and a low number of external components, has a number of independent signal paths (180a-180-c) each including a separate IF stage and baseband down-converter (160). Each signal path is tuned to a specific IF band... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20070096981 - Method and apparatus for providing a global secure user plane location (supl) service: A method and apparatus for providing assistance data for satellite positioning system receivers utilizing a secure user plane location (SUPL) service. In one embodiment, the assistance data is supplied by a global secure user plane location center that contains global assistance data.... Agent: Raymond R. Moser Jr., Esq. MoserIPLaw Group

20070096982 - Phased array antenna systems and methods: Systems and methods are disclosed herein providing an improved approach to phased array antenna communications. In one example, an antenna system includes a digital beamformer adapted to receive a plurality of input signals and selectively replicate and weight the input signals to provide a plurality of digital subarray signals. Digital... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid, LLP

20070096983 - Railway beacon and related production method: A railway beacon having a casing (3) supporting an electronic circuit (4), which receives an electromagnetic enabling signal from a vehicle travelling along a railway line, and generates a coded response signal (telegram) transmitted to the vehicle. The casing (3) is formed in one piece from insulating material, and has... Agent: Gottlieb Rackman & Reisman PC

20070096984 - Network for locating a wireless tag: A network for locating a wireless tag comprises a plurality of wireless nodes. The nodes are not connected together by a wired network. Each node is included in a floor tile for installation inside a building and configured to be wirelessly connectable to at least one other node. When the... Agent: Philips Electronics North America Corporation Intellectual Property & Standards

20070096985 - System for transmitting position signal: A system for transmitting time-synchronized signals for positioning is provided. The system for transmitting positioning signals includes a transmitting apparatus mounted on artificial satellite, a repeater mounted on an artificial satellite, and a repeater mounted on an artificial satellite. Positional relation among artificial satellites is specified beforehand. Transmitting apparatus transmits... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.