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

20070171119 - Micro movement pulsed radar system and method of phase noise compensation: A pulsed radar system uses phase noise compensation to reduce phase noise due to drift of the reference oscillator to enable detection of micro movements and particularly human motion such as walking, breathing or heartbeat. The noise level due to A/D sampling must be sufficiently low for the phase noise... Agent: Noblitt & Gilmore, LLC.

20070171120 - Thin film emitter-absorber apparatus and methods: Methods and apparatus for providing a tunable absorption-emission band in a wavelength selective device are disclosed. A device for selectively absorbing incident electromagnetic radiation includes an electrically conductive surface layer including an arrangement of multiple surface elements. The surface layer is disposed at a nonzero height above a continuous electrically... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20070171121 - Inter-vehicle distance detecting device and inter-vehicle distance detecting method: There are provided an inter-vehicle distance detecting device and an inter-vehicle distance detecting method which can precisely measure an inter-vehicle distance from a user's own vehicle to a neighboring vehicle even if a radar becomes unable to detect the neighboring vehicle due to the influence of multipath or the like.... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070171122 - Radar apparatus and interference detection method: A radar apparatus having a interference detection unit which computes an average value of received power from received signals corresponding to receiving waves received by the receiving antennas, and determines that interference has occurred when the difference between this average value and the average value of the previously computed received... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20070171123 - Radar apparatus and failure detection method thereof: The present invention provides a radar apparatus, which can diagnose failure at low cost with high accuracy, and a failure diagnosis method thereof. An antenna serves as both a transmit antenna and a receive antenna. A transmit and receive select switch switches the transmission and reception of the antenna. A... Agent: Fogg & Powers LLC

20070171124 - Process for accurate location determination in gps positioning system: A process is provided for accurate location determination in assisted satellite-based positioning systems in which a base station (server) transmits assisting information to the user's receiver (rover). Signals from at least 5 satellites are used for 3-dimensional positioning. Pseudorange measurements are made in a system of equations having a minimum... Agent: Armstrong, Kratz, Quintos, Hanson & Brooks, LLP

20070171125 - Method and system for determining time in a satellite positioning system: Method and apparatus for receiving an estimate of time in a satellite signal receiver receives an estimate of time from a server and compensates for error of a clock in the satellite signal receiver using the estimate of time. The output of the compensated clock is used when computing a... Agent: Raymond R. Moser Jr., Esq. MoserIPLaw Group

20070171126 - Cross-correlation suppression technique for position location receivers: The present disclosure provides various methods and devices for suppressing cross-correlation effects in positioning signals. When there is a power imbalance between a weaker positioning signal and an interfering positioning signal, and certain Doppler offsets exist, cross-correlation may make it difficult to acquire the weaker signal. However, a receiver may... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070164893 - Woody electric wave absorber: [Solving Means] In a woody electric wave absorber including a laminated magnetic woody material prepared by bonding facing plates composed of natural wood or a processed woody material with a magnetic layer composed of an adhesive containing a ferrite powder therebetween under pressure, the magnetic layer contains a nonmagnetic stainless... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070164894 - Non-statistical method for compressing and decompressing complex sar data: Provided is a non-statistical method for compressing and decompressing complex SAR data derived from reflected energy. The method includes selecting a first FFT to provide a target ratio of pixel spacing to resolution. A second FFT is then selected which is smaller than the first FFT. The data is zero-padded... Agent: Leonard A. Alkov, Esq. Raytheon Company

20070164895 - System and method for disambiguating the phase of a field received from a transmitter in an electromagnetic tracking system: The present invention provides for disambiguating the phase of a field received from a wireless tracker in an electromagnetic (“EM”) tracking system. In a first method, a carrier wave signal is modulated with a tracking signal transmitted by an EM tracker. A time reference indicating a starting point for a... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20070164896 - In-vehicle radar device and communication device: In order to consider an optimum control method and an optimum mounting method needed, a UWB having a communication function and a radar function are used. For an obstacle vehicle in front, the distance between two cars is measured using the radar function, and according to this distance, a hazard... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070164897 - Single scan track initiation for radars having rotating, electronically scanned antennas: A method and radar system for detecting a target and verifying its presence to begin tracking and to enable future detections of the same target to be correctly associated with its initial detection uses two separate detections. Each detection provides three components of position measurements (range, elevation, and azimuth). The... Agent: Plevy, Howard & Darcy, P.C.

20070164898 - Method and apparatus for automatically adjusting spectral doppler gain: Method and apparatus for automatically adjusting a parameter used in the display of a Doppler spectral image comprises acquiring a plurality of spectral lines of Doppler data. A subset of Doppler data is determined from the plurality of spectral lines of Doppler data. A noise characteristic of the subset of... Agent: The Small Patent Law Group LLP

20070164899 - Radar scan conversion for plan position indicator: An angular scan interval may be divided into one or more sweep sectors for display. Polar (r, θ) coordinates may be calculated for rectangular (x, y) coordinates at each pixel of a display interval by computing polar (r, θ) coordinates in an interval of 0 to λ/4 and by applying... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

20070164901 - Multi-function device with positioning system and shared processor: A multi-function device with a positioning function and a real time positioning engine is disclosed. The device contains also a shared processor used by the positioning function and other functions of the device, such as a mobile radio-communication function. The positioning engine performs in real time the most computational intensive... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070164900 - Therapy delivery system including a navigation element: An electromagnetic receiver assembly is included in a navigation element for a therapy delivery system. If the system is modular, the navigation element may be an insertable module thereof and/or include a lumen to receive another insertable module.... Agent: Medtronic, Inc.

20070164902 - Smart antenna beamforming device in communication system and method thereof: A beamforming device includes a Direction Of Arrival (DOA) estimation unit for estimating DOAs of the received signals based on a data subcarrier matrix; a pre-spatial filtering unit for using the estimated DOA, performing a filtering operation for the data subcarrier matrix, and generating filtering matrixes; a signal identification unit... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070164903 - Radio controlled time piece and method of controlling same: A radio controlled time piece 1 actively using a time-programmed receiving operation and a forced receiving operation with respect to a standard radio signal and having an object the enablement of highly accurate and efficient time correction by properly receiving time information or calendar information and the like by executing... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20070159376 - Interrupt sar implementation for range migration (rma) processing: A moving radar (405) generates a synthetic aperture image from an incomplete sequence of periodic pulse returns. The incomplete sequence of periodic pulse returns has one or more missing pulses. The radar converts the incomplete sequence of pulse returns into a digital stream. A computer (403) processes the digital stream... Agent: Leonard A. Alkov, Esq. Raytheon Company

20070159377 - Systems and methods for displaying hazards: A system, according to various aspects of the present invention, provides a presentation to a hazard display. The system includes a memory having surveillance data and a processor. The processor updates an image in accordance with the surveillance data to provide an updated image. The processor also prepares a presentation... Agent: Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P. Two Renaissance Squire

20070159378 - Methods and apparatus for radar time sensor: Methods and apparatus to detect and measure energy transmission or azimuth angle information from a radar system at one or more known or measured azimuth angles, determine, for each azimuth angle, the time corresponding to the center of the beam of the energy transmission, receive universal time information, tag the... Agent: Raytheon Company C/o Daly, Crowley, Mofford & Durkee, LLP

20070159379 - Method and apparatus for protecting ships against terminal homing phase-guided missiles: The present invention concerns a method for protecting ships against terminal homing phase-guided missiles provided with a target data analysis system, as well as an apparatus for implementing the method, wherein the missile moving in a direction towards the ship to be protected is detected by suitable sensors, located, and... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070159380 - Millimeter-wave radar apparatus and millimeter radar system using the same: A millimeter-wave radar apparatus has a good heat radiation characteristic. The apparatus includes a multilayer substrate, an RF circuit, an antenna, a thermal via hole, a heat transmitting plate, and a casing. The RF circuit and the antenna are provided on the front and rear surfaces of the multilayer substrate... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20070159381 - Ground-speed measuring apparatus: This invention provides a ground-speed measuring apparatus for a vehicle that can detect a velocity along the movement of the vehicle (in the fore direction), a velocity across the movement of the vehicle (in the athwartships direction), a side-skid angle of the vehicle, and an angular velocity of the vehicle.... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070159382 - Gps signal repeater and gps receiver of stationary orbit satellite, and method for positioning stationary orbit satellite using the same: Provided is a Global Positioning System (GPS) signal repeater and a GPS receiver of a stationary orbit satellite, and a method for positioning a stationary orbit satellite using the same. The GPS signal repeater includes: a GPS receiver for receiving an L-band GPS signal transmitted from a GPS satellite; a... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20070159383 - Atmospheric turbulence analysis system: A turbulence analysis system comprises a communication interface and a processing system. The communication interface receives time variance metrics for a plurality of satellite signals. The time variance metrics correspond to variances in signal transfer times for individual satellite signals. The processing system determines position metrics for the individual satellite... Agent: Setter Roche LLP

20070159385 - Multifrequency line biases for multifrequency gnss receivers: A differential carrier phase global navigation satellite system (GNSS) receiver with multiple antennas uses multiple GNSS carriers to determine position, which can improve the speed of integer searches, for example. In the system, an estimate of delays associated with the transmission paths between the antennas and receiver for at least... Agent: Houston Eliseeva

20070159384 - Satellite-based positioning of mobile terminals: The invention relates to satellite-based positioning of mobile terminals. Positioning with correction for errors in parameters measured at the mobile terminal is provided. The terminal location is first calculated (S2; S4′) without error correction or with partial error correction. Hereby, a set of nonlinear equations with the UE location and... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070159386 - Method of tracking at least one mobile unit comprising integrated radio/pseudolite transceiver & laser detector by utilizing stationary self-positioning radio transceiver and stationary laser transmitter: A method of tracking at least one mobile unit utilizing a radio and light based 3-D positioning system comprising a stationary self-positioning radio (pseudolite) transceiver, a stationary laser transmitter positioned in a location with known coordinates, a wireless link, and a display. The method comprises: (A) determining position coordinates of... Agent: Law Offices Of Boris G. Tankhilevich

20070159388 - Communication system, a communication terminal and a method of determining a location estimate therefor: A communication system (100) comprises a plurality of location enabled communication terminals (101, 103). The communication terminals (101, 103) comprise a GPS location processor (111) which generates a location estimate in response to signals received from satellite information data and a plurality of satellites (105). The communication terminals (101, 103)... Agent: Motorola, Inc Intellectual Property Section

20070159387 - Supporting an assisted satellite based positioning: For supporting a satellite based positioning of a mobile arrangement (30,40) with assistance data, a communication network converts parameters of a dedicated orbit model describing a movement of a satellite (50,60), which dedicated orbit model is defined for a particular satellite based positioning system, into parameters of a common orbit... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070159389 - Wireless network assisted gps system: A method and apparatus for locating a mobile communications device such as a cell phone includes apparatus for communicating with base stations and apparatus for communicating with satellites. Signals received from satellites and the base stations are combined to provide the necessary information to calculate the location of the mobile... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20070159390 - Method of providing celestial information and a mobile terminal having a function of providing the celestial information: A mobile terminal and a method of outputting celestial information using the terminal are disclosed. The mobile terminal includes a memory unit storing celestial information, an information acquiring unit acquiring terminal position information, terminal direction information including an azimuth and an altitude of the terminal, and time information, and an... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070159391 - Method for updating ephemeris data of global positioning system: The present invention provides a method for updating GPS ephemeris data, which is applicable to a navigation device containing a GPS ephemeris data. The method for updating GPS ephemeris data includes the following steps: first, the navigation device counting down a predetermined time; next, searching a GPS ephemeris data server... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20070159392 - Method for improved signal to noise ratio estimation: A method for estimating signal/noise ratio is provided. The method comprises calculating a first signal/noise ratio (SNR) estimate using a technique with a first response time, calculating a second SNR estimate using a technique with a second, slower response time, and blending the first SNR estimate with the second SNR... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070159393 - Transmitting/receiving apparatus and transmitting/receiving method: A transmitting/receiving apparatus wherein a decision of performing SDM communication accompanied by a directivity control is correctly performed to improve the transmission efficiency. In the apparatus, a channel estimating part (205) performs channel estimation by use of known symbols included in a received signal. A channel variation deciding part (206)... Agent: Stevens, Davis, Miller & Mosher, LLP

20070159394 - Method and apparatus for signal tracking utilizing universal algorithm: A method and apparatus for signal tracking utilizing a universal algorithm is disclosed. The method and apparatus generally include acquiring a signal measurement corresponding to a signal, forming a measurement matrix utilizing the acquired signal measurement, and applying the measurement matrix to a recursive filter to determine a geolocation of... Agent: Hovey Williams LLP

20070152866 - Detection, location, and characterization of buried explosive devices and weapon caches: Embodiments of this invention utilize Fraunhofer diffraction to detect, locate, and characterize buried objects, and, in particular, weapons caches and/or potentially dangerous explosive devices, are to be detected and characterized according to rough size, shape, and reflectivity with respect to the probe energy (ultrasound, microwave, milliwave, etc.). Size is obtained... Agent: Mitchell P. Novick, Esq. Law Offices Of Mitchell P. Novick

20070152867 - Polarization and frequency diverse radar system for complete polarimetric characterization of scatterers with increased scanning speed: A method and apparatus is provided, whereby a scanning, polarization and frequency diverse radar system measures the complete polarimetric characterization of weather targets without loss of scanning speed and without an additional ambiguity in the Doppler velocity beyond that given by Nyquist's sampling theorem. In one embodiment, a linear combination... Agent: Cochran Freund & Young LLC

20070152868 - Device and method for radiating and/or receiving electromagnetic radiation: A device as well as a method for radiating and/or for receiving electromagnetic radiation provide that the setting of the angle of the beam lobes of the device in elevation may be managed in a simple and cost-effective manner. In this connection, it is provided that the phase shift between... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070152869 - Multichannel processing of signals in a radar system: A vehicle radar system includes a receive antenna system which concurrently provides signals from multiple receive beams to multiple channels of a multi-channel receiver. The multi-channel receiver concurrently processes the multiple signals provided by the antenna system and provides output signals suitable for further processing. The particular arrangement may also... Agent: Valeo Raytheon Systems, Inc. C/o Daly, Crowley, Mofford And Durkee, LLP

20070152871 - Time duplex apparatus and method for radar sensor front-ends: A radar system and method for determining the range and, optionally, the azimuth of a target, while maintaining a high transmitting duty factor is provided. A waveform generator is connected to an antenna aperture by a transmit-receive switch, and the waveform is transmitted for more than half of the period... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070152870 - Vehicle radar system having multiple operating modes: A vehicle radar system includes a processing system which operates in one of a plurality of operating modes which are selected based upon an environment (or changes to an environment) surrounding the vehicle radar system. In one exemplary embodiment, the vehicle radar system is provided as a vehicle radar system... Agent: Valeo Raytheon Systems, Inc. C/o Daly, Crowley, Mofford And Durkee, LLP

20070152873 - Generating event signals in a radar system: A radar system having a transmit signal path and a receive signal path and an event generator which is responsive to command signals provided by a digital signal processor (DSP) is described. The DSP generates command signals and provides the command signals to the event generator. In response to the... Agent: Valeo Raytheon Systems, Inc. C/o Daly, Crowley, Mofford And Durkee, LLP

20070152872 - Reducing undesirable coupling of signal(s) between two or more signal paths in a radar system: In one aspect, the invention is a method for selecting frequencies used in down converting a radar signal. The method includes selecting frequencies summing to a transmission frequency, determining intermodulation products based on the selected frequencies and determining if at least one intermodulation product is less than a predetermined difference... Agent: Valeo Raytheon Systems, Inc. C/o Daly, Crowley, Mofford And Durkee, LLP

20070152874 - Reducing undesirable coupling of signal(s) between two or more signal paths in a radar system: In one aspect the invention is a method of reducing crosstalk in a radar system. The method includes receiving a reflected radar signal, down converting the reflected radar signal to an intermediate frequency (IF) signal and down converting the IF signal to a baseband signal. In another aspect the invention... Agent: Valeo Raytheon Systems, Inc. C/o Daly, Crowley, Mofford And Durkee, LLP

20070152875 - Radio frequency and microwave signals: A device for generating high powered Radio Frequency (RF) or microwave signals comprising a fast rise-time video pulse generator, a modulator to modify the generated UWB pulses by gyromagnetic action to transfer a portion of the UWB pulse energy from lower frequencies to frequencies in the RF or microwave range... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20070152877 - Method of improving a vehicle emergency call network: A method of improving a vehicle emergency call network used during an enhanced 911 call, which is especially useful in environments having degraded GPS signals. The present method utilizes an independent position enhancement algorithm, such as a dead reckoning algorithm, and converts the output of that algorithm into a compatible... Agent: Anthony Luke Simon

20070152876 - Timing calibration for fast signal reacquisition in navigational receivers: The present invention provides GPS receivers with clock calibration for fast reacquisition of GPS signals after waking up from a sleep state or coming out of signal blockage. In a preferred embodiment, a GPS receiver comprises a local clock based on an oscillator, e.g., crystal oscillator. The GPS receiver calculates... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLPIPProsecution Department

20070152879 - Method and system for multi-function satellite positioning system receivers: Multifunction satellite positioning receiver having a plurality of functions that are selectable in response to predetermined events or in response to user actions and enable more efficient use of the hardware and processing resources of a multifunction satellite position receiver.... Agent: The Eclipse Group

20070152878 - Unassisted indoor gps receiver: The present invention provides GPS receivers capable of tracking very weak GPS signals particularly in an indoor environment without assistance from an external server or a network. In a preferred embodiment, a GPS receiver initially acquires and locks onto GPS satellite signals to compute receiver position outdoors. The GPS receiver... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLPIPProsecution Department

20070152880 - Antenna system for a gps receiver: An antenna system for a GPS receiver that includes a casing and a micro processor. The antenna system includes at least two antenna units, a micro controller, a switching unit and a signal processor. The antenna units are used for receiving a satellite signal. Each of the antenna units owns... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch