Communications: directive radio wave systems and devices (e.g., radar, radio navigation) inventions 06/07

20070146195 - Multi-sensor system: An avionics system including a radar system being capable of automatically tracking a radar target, an optical image producing system, a radar monitor, an optical image monitor, a decision support unit having a connection to the radar system and to the optical image producing system, and an input/output unit for... Agent: Venable LLP

20070146196 - Obstacle detecting control device of vehicle: In an obstacle detecting control device installed in a vehicle body and includes a millimeter-wave radar detecting an obstacle in front of the vehicle and an operation control portion controlling a bake device and seatbelt pre-tensioner according to detection results of the obstacle by the radar, there are provided a... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20070146197 - Radar scan converter and method for transforming: A method transforms an image from polar coordinates into Cartesian coordinates. Therefore, the target image in Cartesian coordinates is subdivided into triangles defined by the vertices given in Cartesian coordinates. The respective polar coordinates are coded into attributes and these attributes are attached to each vertex. The attributes of any... Agent: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group PLLC

20070146198 - Method and apparatus for detecting emitter movement: A method and apparatus for detecting emitter movement. The method and apparatus generally include acquiring a measured signal characteristic corresponding to a signal emitted from an emitter, estimating a signal characteristic corresponding to the signal, and comparing the measured and estimated signal characteristics to determine if the emitter is moving.... Agent: Hovey Williams LLP

20070146200 - Method and apparatus for providing advertising and real time content to a mobile device based upon location: A mobile wireless system (10) for displaying real-time content or advertising based on location is set forth. Communication signals (200) are broadcast from various communication devices (18), (33), (34A) that include a marker (204). Various location-specific content signals (230) are broadcast that have location information (232) therein. Advertising data (234)... Agent: The Directv Group Inc

20070146199 - Position data exchange systems, mobile communication devices, and methods: A position data exchange system comprises first and second mobile communication devices. The first communication device retrieves current coordinates of itself from a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver and transmits the coordinates through a wireless communication channel from which the second communication device receives the coordinates. The second communication device... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070146201 - Search algorithm for phased array antenna: An antenna system electronically searches for a satellite signal by beginning at the current pointing angle of an antenna. The antenna system sweeps a tuner frequency of the receiver by electronically commanding the receiver to tune to different transponder frequencies. By scanning through transponder frequencies, the antenna system can locate... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20070146202 - Antenna: This invention relates to reducing the complexity and cost of antenna arrays and is more specifically concerned with reducing the complexity of an antenna apparatus (10). It provides an antenna array (62) made up of a vertical stack of horizontal linear structures (74) each having several groups of neighbouring array... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070146204 - Method and apparatus for signal tracking utilizing universal algorithm: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and apparatus for signal tracking utilizing a universal algorithm. The method and apparatus generally include acquiring a signal measurement corresponding to a signal emitted from an emitter, forming a measurement matrix utilizing the acquired signal measurement, and applying the measurement matrix to... Agent: Hovey Williams LLP

20070146203 - Method and apparatus for reducing geolocation ambiguity in signal tracking: A method and apparatus for reducing geolocation ambiguity in signal tracking. The method and apparatus generally include acquiring a first and a second set of geolocations and comparing the sets to reduce ambiguous geolocations. Such a configuration enables accurate and rapid geolocation determination without requiring complex and time-consuming direction finding... Agent: Hovey Williams LLP

20070139247 - Multifunctional radio frequency directed energy system: An RFDE system includes an RFDE transmitter and at least one RFDE antenna. The RFDE transmitter and antenna direct high power electromagnetic energy towards a target sufficient to cause high energy damage or disruption of the target. The RFDE system further includes a targeting system for locating the target. The... Agent: Mark D. Saralino (general) Renner, Otto, Boisselle & Sklar, LLP

20070139249 - Handheld microwave imaging device: A handheld microwave imaging device provides screening of objects, such as persons and other items. The imaging device includes an antenna array of antenna elements, each capable of being programmed with a respective direction coefficient to direct microwave illumination toward a target associated with the object, and each capable of... Agent: Agilent Technologies, Inc. Legal Department, Dl 429

20070139248 - System and method for standoff microwave imaging: A microwave imaging system for performing standoff microwave imaging includes an antenna array with a plurality of antenna elements, each capable of being programmed with a respective direction coefficient to direct microwave illumination toward a target within a volume that includes a standoff region, and each capable of being programmed... Agent: Agilent Technologies, Inc. Legal Department, Dl 429

20070139250 - System and method for monitoring targets: A system comprising a moving radar, a processing device, and a phase difference determination device is used to monitor a target. The moving radar has first and second phase centers that transmit and receive signals normal to a direction of movement of the radar. The processing device receives first and... Agent: Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.l.l.c.

20070139251 - Target recognition system and method with unknown target rejection: The present invention describes a new QR enclosing voting scheme that allows the extraction of base signatures of objects using a shortest path QR algorithm, providing a probability distribution measuring the occurrence of each random projection base of the object under consideration. The method is very effective in extracting the... Agent: Leonard A. Alkov, Esq. Raytheon Company

20070139252 - System and method for monitoring airspace: A method for receiving data corresponding to an aircraft in a monitored airspace, comparing the data to rules, each rule corresponding to a threat posed by the aircraft and generating a threat indication based on at least one of the rules triggered by the data. A system having a rule... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20070139253 - Methods and systems for using pulsed radar for communications transparent to radar function: A method and system are disclosed where transmitted radar pulses are utilized for both a radar sensing function and for data communications. The data communications are performed in a manner that is simultaneous and transparent to the radar sensing function, in terms of non interference or interruption. The method and... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070139255 - Driving assistance method for a vehicle: A driving assistance method is provided for a vehicle in which the speed of the vehicle is controlled by means of a longitudinal guidance control system and the lateral guidance of the vehicle is controlled by means of a lateral guidance control system, and wherein lateral guidance control, which includes... Agent: Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP Intellectual Property Department

20070139254 - High-frequency electronic switch, and burst wave generating device using the same and short range radar using the same: A high-frequency electronic switch includes a signal input terminal to which a high-frequency signal to be switched is input, a plurality of amplifying circuits with transistors, to respectively amplify the high-frequency signal to be switched sequentially, the amplifying circuits being cascade-connected in a plurality of stages to the signal input... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070139256 - Method for determining quality of measurement in a radar level gauge system: A method for determining a quality of measurement in a radar level gauge system arranged to measure a filling level of a content contained in a tank, comprising the steps of providing an antenna having at least two separate antenna functions, including a transmitting function and a receiving function, transmitting... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20070139257 - System and method for location determination using time differences: The present invention relates to a system and a method for location determination using time differences. The method of the invention comprises the steps of: transmitting a transmission signal by using a directional transmitter rotating at an angular velocity, the transmission signal comprising a transmission identification and the transmitting time;... Agent: Volentine Francos, & Whitt PLLC

20070139258 - Apparatus and method for instantly automatic detecting clutter blocks and interference source and for dynamically establishing clutter map: An apparatus for detecting clutter blocks and an interference source for dynamically establishing a clutter map includes a clutter block detecting module accumulates a plurality of range cell data of each detecting area, and compares the accumulated value with a clutter block level to define the position of a clutter... Agent: J.c. Patents

20070139260 - Output monitor circuit of radio-frequency circuit: An output monitor circuit of a radio-frequency circuit outputs a radio-frequency signal of wavelength λ. The circuit includes a directional coupler, a detection circuit, and a back flow blocking circuit. The directional coupler has a coupling line of a length less than λ/4 coupled with an output line of the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070139259 - Systems and methods for self-test of a radar altimeter: Systems and methods for testing a signal generated by a Direct Digital Synthesizer (DDS) in a radar altimeter. In an embodiment of the method, a voltage signal derived by comparing a fixed reference frequency to a ramped frequency signal generated by the DDS based on a clock-based reference signal is... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070139261 - Systems and methods for self-calibrating a radar altimeter: Systems and methods for performing self calibration of a radar altimeter. An example system includes a first component that generates a simulated return signal based on one or more range values. A transmitter generates a transmission radar signal and a receiver processes the simulated return signal based on the transmission... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070139262 - Managed traverse system and method to acquire accurate survey data in absence of precise gps data: A method and system obtains precise survey-grade position data of target points in zones where precise GPS data cannot be obtained, due to natural or man-made objects such as foliage and buildings. The system comprises a GPS receiver mounted on a survey pole, with an inertial measurement unit (IMU) and... Agent: Cooper & Dunham, LLP

20070139263 - Method and apparatus for improving fault detection and exclusion systems: A method for improving fault detection and exclusion of a GPS receiver is provided. The method determines pseudorange measurement residuals of tracked signals, divides the signals into two groups based on whether each signal has a higher or lower probability of being a failure, and estimates a residual bias using... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070139264 - Method and arrangements relating to satellite-based positioning: A method, an apparatus and a computer program for determining a location at which satellite ranging signals (RS1-RS 4) have been received. At least one pseudorange selection cycle (511, 512), including an initial selection cycle (511), is performed and said location is determined utilizing the selected pseudoranges (1004). Said initial... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070139265 - Method of acquiring satellite data: The present invention provides a method of acquisition of satellite data by a mobile device including an RNSS satellite radio navigation receiver, said method including the following steps: said receiver receiving a signal transmitted by a plurality of satellites and corresponding to a sum of signals each transmitted by a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070139266 - Multitracking of collocated satellites: Tracking of collocated satellites is accomplished by providing a single tracking antenna having a tracking feed and combiner which receives a first satellite signal. A first pointing error signal is extracted from the tracking feed based on the first satellite signal and the antenna is steered to a pointing angle... Agent: The Boeing Company C/o Felix L. Fischer, Attorney At Law

20070139267 - Methods and systems for providing enhanced position location in wireless communications: Embodiments disclosed herein relate to methods and systems for providing improved position-location (e.g., time-of-arrival) measurement and enhanced position location in wireless communication systems. In an embodiment, an access point may replace information (e.g., data) transmission by a “known” transmission (or “reference transmission”) at a predetermined time known to access terminals... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070139268 - Method and apparatus for adaptive direction estimation of radio waves: In an environment of temporally and spatially uncorrelated white additive noise, the direction estimation apparatus for coherent signals calculates (M−1) instantaneous cross-correlations between some array data, and selecting multiple pairs each of which is consisted of p instantaneous correlations from the (M−1) instantaneous cross-correlations to form a Hankel correlation matrix.... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20070139269 - System and method for model-free position estimation and tracking: A system for, and method of, position estimation of, or tracking, an object. In one embodiment, the system includes: (1) a map generator configured to create, without requiring a propagation model, a mean map for the region and (2) a measurement matching engine associated with the map generator and configured... Agent: Hitt Gaines, PC Lucent Technologies Inc.

20070132630 - Linear fm radar: A FM-CW radar system comprises a frequency modulated continuous wave digital generator that produces both in-phase (I) and quadrature-phase (Q) outputs to orthogonally oriented transmitter antennas. A linearly polarized beam is output from a switched antenna array that allows a variety of I-and-Q pairs of bowtie antennas to be alternately... Agent: Robert Charles Hill

20070132631 - Multi-dimensional real-array radar antennas and systems steered and focused using fast fourier transforms: Radar systems are disclosed that include a signal generator, an antenna, a switching circuit, an I/Q sampling and signal-demodulation (demodulation) processor, and a FFT processor. The signal generator produces energization signals. The antenna has multiple individual antenna elements. The switching circuit is configured to deliver the energization signals to a... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20070132632 - Radar apparatus: To provide a radar apparatus capable of rapidly detecting an object at the end of a detecting range. The present invention provides a radar apparatus comprising a radar sensor that transmits a transmitting wave to a predetermined angular range and receives a reflected wave reflected by an object and a... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20070132633 - Small-sized low-power dissipation short-range radar that can arbitrarily change delay time between transmission and reception with high time resolution and method of controlling the same: In a configuration according to a short-range radar of the present invention and a method of controlling the same, the timing at which a variable-period pulse output from a variable-period pulse generator including a direct digital synthesizer (DDS) has shifted in level first since reception of a search instruction is... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070132634 - Radar platform angular motion compensation: A method to compensate for radar platform angular motion may include measuring or estimating any radar platform angular motion. The method may also include substantially decoupling each array subsection response of a plurality of array subsection responses from any radar platform angular motion by applying continuous time varying phase adjustments... Agent: Moore And Van Allen PLLC For Boeing

20070132635 - Method for ephemeris assisted global positioning: The present invention generally relates to the transmission of GPS reference information, and more particularly, to transmission of GPS ephemeris information for mobile applications. A Telemetry word data is provided by and/or transmitted by a non-cellular, land based network and received by a receiver. A location signal is computed by... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20070132636 - Multi-receiver satellite positioning system method and system for improved performance: A multi-receiver satellite positioning system (SPS) wireless device (101) and system (100) or method (200) can include a plurality of SPS receivers co-located with each other, and a processor (114). The processor can be coupled to a first SPS receiver (102) and at least a second SPS receiver (104). The... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20070132637 - Method and apparatus for installing and/or determining the position of a receiver of a tracking system: The present invention pertains to the installation and positioning of the receivers of a wireless tracking system. In such a system, a wireless beaconing device transmits a signal that can be detected by a plurality of wireless receivers positioned at various known locations. Each wireless receiver records information derived from... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070132638 - Close/intra-formation positioning collision avoidance system and method: A collision avoidance system and method is based on receiving and processing Mode-S transponder messages without interrogating the transponders of the respective aircraft flying in formation. A collision avoidance computer and Mode-S transponder are used to provide distributed intra-formation control among multiple cells of aircraft flying in formation or close-in.... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P.

20070132639 - Method and apparatus for determining an approximate position of a satellite positioning receiver: A mobile device (100) includes a satellite positioning receiver (102) for determining a precise location of the device (220). The first time the precise location is determined, the satellite positioning receiver is provided with location aiding information including an approximate location and a radius of uncertainty. The approximate location is... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070126620 - System and method of using absorber-walls for mutual coupling reduction between microstrip antennas or brick: A multi-element antenna with sufficiently small return loss and mutual coupling signals to allow the simultaneous transmission of powerful radar signals and the reception of faint target return signals. The microstrip patch antenna has radio frequency absorbing material place between neighboring antenna elements to reduce the mutual coupling leakage signals.... Agent: Tyco Technology Resources

20070126621 - Seamless air traffic control (atc) datalink transfers: Systems and methods for automatically transferring control from one air traffic control (ATC) center that uses one ATC data link standard to another ATC center that uses a different ATC data link standard are disclosed. In one embodiment, the system includes a receiver component configured to receive at least a... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20070126622 - Radar detection and dynamic frequency selection: A wireless network device includes a correlation module, an automatic gain control module, and a control module. The correlation module correlates a predetermined portion of a radio frequency (RF) signal and generates a correlation signal based thereon. The automatic gain control (AGC) module generates a gain control signal based on... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce P.L.C

20070126623 - First responder positioning apparatus: A positioning system for tracking the location of a first responder emergency worker. The system includes mobile enabler units and a personnel badge having a ranging transponder. Two enabler units can use two-way ranging signals, a prescribed turn around time and differential altitude for automatically tracking the location of the... Agent: David R. Gildea Menlo Patent Agency LLC

20070126624 - Radar apparatus or like: A radar apparatus or like is provided in which a rate at which detected image data is written into an image memory is prevented from decreasing, irrespective of an enlarged amount of the detected image data. When an azimuth direction enlargement section 90a of a W data generator 9 receives... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070126625 - Gps receiver and related method and apparatus: A GPS receiver (10) is disclosed comprising a GPS antenna and a GPS RF front-end including an analogue to digital converter for sampling received GPS signals; and a processor for outputting, including to an external device, the GPS signal samples together with ancillary information either directly or indirectly describing characteristics... Agent: Philips Electronics North America Corporation Intellectual Property & Standards

20070126627 - Positioning information processing apparatus, information processing apparatus, method of processing positioning information, and program: A positioning information processing apparatus includes positioning information acquiring means for acquiring positioning information at predetermined standard time intervals; and positioning information transmitting means for transmitting outside the positioning information acquired by the positioning information acquiring means through a predetermined data communication path only if the positioning information is effective.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070126626 - System for positioning mobile communication apparatus and method thereof: A system for a mobile communication apparatus for positioning the mobile communication apparatus is provided. The mobile communication apparatus comprises a controller, a signal transmitter/receiver, a positioning receiver, and a display. Wherein, the positioning receiver receives a positioning signal transmitted by a Global Positioning System (GPS). The signal transmitter/receiver coupled... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070126628 - Apparatus and method for allowing user to track path of travel over extended period of time: An apparatus (10) and method for allowing a moving user to automatically determine and store locations (11) over an extended period of time, to display the series of such locations (11), and to actively assist in returning to an earlier location. The apparatus (10) includes an antenna (16) for facilitating... Agent: Spencer, Fane, Britt & Browne

20070126629 - Technique for accurate estimate of large antenna inertial two dimensional orientation using relative gps spatial phase: A radar antenna has a reflector and maximum gain along its boresight. The reflector has a periphery, typically circular, rectangular or elliptical. A plurality of Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite signal receiving antennas are rigidly, mechanically attached to the reflector near its periphery. The plurality of GPS satellite signal receiving... Agent: Leonard A. Alkov, Esq. Raytheon Company

20070126630 - Method and system for performing digital beam forming at intermediate frequency on the radiation pattern of an array antenna: A method of performing digital beam forming on the radiation pattern of an array antenna using a plurality of antenna elements, each antenna element being coupled to a signal processing chain. A weighting phase is used in which at least a complex weight coefficient is applied to a digital signal... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070126631 - Signal separation based on a hybrid separation matrix and antenna arrays: A method for operating a communications device for separating M source signals provided by M signal sources includes receiving at K antenna arrays M different summations of the M source signals, where K<M. Each antenna array receives at least one different summation of the M source signals, with at least... Agent: Michael W. Taylor

20070126632 - Signal separation based on linear independent signal summation sets and an antenna array: A method for operating a communications device for separating an independent source signal from a mixture of source signals provided by M signal sources includes receiving at an antenna array at least M different summations of the M source signals. The at least M different summations define the mixture of... Agent: Michael W. Taylor

20070126633 - Beamforming apparatus and method in a smart antenna system: A DOA estimating apparatus and method in a smart antenna system using a fixed beamforming scheme are provided. An uplink weight for a received uplink signal is calculated and a projection matrix of an interference signal is generated using the uplink weight. A covariance matrix of the interference signal is... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070126634 - Navigation system using radio frequency tags: A method of determining a location is provided. The method comprises placing a plurality of radio frequency (RF) tags within an area, mapping the placement of the plurality of RF tags within the area, detecting one or more of the plurality of RF tags in the area, and determining a... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070126635 - System and method for determining geographic location of wireless computing devices: System for enabling a wireless computing device to determine its position includes a server with a database of identification and positional information about wireless beacons and a wireless computing device arranged to wireless communicate using the Internet with the server. The server determines the geographic location of the wireless computing... Agent: Brian Roffe, Esq

20070126636 - System and/or method for estimating speed of a transmitting object: The subject matter disclosed herein relates to techniques for estimating a speed of an object that transmits a signal at a carrier frequency.... Agent: Berkeley Law & Technology Group, LLP