Communications: directive radio wave systems and devices (e.g., radar, radio navigation) inventions 09/07

20070222664 - Method and system for correlating radar position data with target identification data, and determining target position using round trip delay data: A method and system for using a single transceiver to correlate radar position data with target identification data. Two transceivers, operating in round trip delay mode, can be used to provide two possible positions for a given target when radar coverage is lost or unavailable. Three transceivers can be used... Agent: Burr & Brown

20070222658 - Selective reflective and absorptive surfaces and methods for resonantly coupling incident radiation: Methods and apparatus for providing a tunable absorption band in a wavelength selective surface 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: Mark G. Lappin Foley & Lardner LLP

20070222659 - Device for camouflaging specularly reflecting surfaces: A camouflage device for camouflaging specularly reflecting surfaces of an object is formed with function elements for influencing the reflection of radiation from an assumed radiation source. Each function element forms a part of an outer layer and has a pair of individual surfaces on its side facing the radiation... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070222660 - Encoded transmitted signals in a simultaneous dual polarization weather system: A system for simultaneously propagating dual polarized signals in a polarimetric radar system includes a system for coding at least one of the two signals. The simultaneous dual polarization weather radar transmits signals in both the horizontal and vertical orientations at the same time. Upon reception, the signals in each... Agent: Sirote & Permutt, P.C.

20070222661 - Phase shifted transmitted signals in a simultaneous dual polarization weather system: A system for simultaneously propagating dual polarized signals in a polarimetric radar system includes a system for shifting the phase of one of the two signals. The simultaneous dual polarization weather radar transmits signals in both the horizontal and vertical orientations at the same time. Upon reception, the signals in... Agent: Sirote & Permutt, P.C.

20070222662 - Radar system for motor vehicles: A radar system for motor vehicles, having a least one radar sensor having a range of less than 50 m for monitoring traffic in an adjacent lane, wherein the radar sensor has a phase-controlled antenna and a control device for setting a plurality of radar lobes having different geometries.... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070222663 - Boundary crossing object detection system: An boundary monitoring apparatus comprising an object detection device arranged to transmit a signal into a detection region and to detect an object in said detection region upon receipt of a reflected signal from said object; means for defining a boundary in said detection region; means for determining a path... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070222665 - Airborne situational awareness system: A digital airborne situational awareness system and method. The system is installed on multiple aircraft to generate an airborne network providing collision avoidance without ground control. A global positioning system (GPS) receiver unit is coupled to a microprocessor in each aircraft equipped with the system. A software engine receives the... Agent: Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC

20070222666 - Collision risk prevention equipment for aircraft: This equipment is of the TCAS type. In order to improve its integrity and the reliability of its measurements, its computing unit is provided with a cross-checking function carrying out the comparison between two values of a same parameter, for example a relative distance with respect to an intruder, one... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20070222667 - Methods and systems for identifying high-quality phase angle measurements in an interferometric radar system: A method for determining a mechanical angle to a radar target utilizing a multiple antenna radar altimeter is described. The method comprises receiving radar return signals at the multiple antennas, populating an ambiguity resolution matrix with the electrical phase angle computations, selecting a mechanical angle from the ambiguity resolution matrix... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070222668 - Wave guide adapter with decoupling member for planar wave guide couplings: Described is a wave guide adapter for a filling level radar. The adapter includes a decoupling member for reducing a leakage signal from a first line to a second line. The decoupling member is electrically isolated from the lines. Reducing the leakage signal increases the sensor's sensitivity at close range.... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20070222670 - Measuring apparatus and measuring method: A measuring apparatus for measuring a distance from an object to be measured has, a transmitting means for alternately modulating amplitudes of a first continuous wave having a first frequency and a second continuous wave having a second frequency for transmitting a transmission signal as a carrier wave using an... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20070222669 - Method and apparatus for transforming overbounds: A method for determining overbounds comprises the steps of determining conservative overbounds (qi) of at least one error (εi) in a first phase space, multiplying the conservative overbounds (qi) of errors (εi) in the first phase space by a first parameter (θ(−x)·2) and a second parameter (θ(x)·2), and determining an... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070222671 - Millimeter wave image processor and millimeter wave image processing method: A millimeter wave image processor, capable of performing imaging by matching and filtering while considering a spherical wave on an antenna face in a near field, is provided. The processor includes: a T-antenna which receives a radio wave emitted by a target; an A/D converter which A/D converts signals received... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070222672 - Method for processing signals in a direction-finding system: A method for processing signals in a direction-finder system, including detection of pulses in the received signals, estimation of characterizing pulse parameters, sorting the pulses according to the characterizing pulse parameters, de-interleaving the received pulses into pulses coming from at least one emitter, determining emitter parameters characterizing said emitter, and... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070222673 - System and method for evaluating the performance of a scan strategy: A system and method is provided for detecting emitter signals and for determining a scan strategy for a receiver system that receives such emitter signals. Once a scan strategy is computed, it may be desirable to evaluate the scan strategy's intercept performance against a given emitter set under specific altitude,... Agent: Randy J. Pritzker Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20070222674 - Automated asset positioning for location and inventory tracking using multiple positioning techniques: A system and method is provided for tracking and maintaining a highly accurate inventory of shipping containers that are stored within container storage facilities. The invention includes using multiple complementary real-time and post-processing positioning techniques associated with various positioning sensors that are associated with inventory pieces or equipment. Examples of... Agent: Fliesler Meyer LLP

20070222675 - Mobile radiation surveillance network: A detection system and method having at least one detection unit, and a control centre unit. The detection unit includes at least one sensor configured to generate sensor data correlated to sensed conditions, a locator for actively determining location data corresponding to the location of the detection unit, and a... Agent: Bereskin And Parr

20070222676 - Positioning device, positioning control method, positioning control program, and computer-readable recording medium having positioning control program recorded thereon: A positioning device comprising: a peak frequency determination section which determines a peak frequency which is a reception frequency corresponding to a maximum correlation value of a specific positioning base code replica and a positioning base code carried on a radio wave from a specific transmission source; a reference frequency... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20070222677 - System and method for adjustingtransmission phasing in a point-to-point communication link: An apparatus and method for adjusting transmission phasing in a point-to-point communication link is disclosed. The relative phases of the transmissions from each antenna are adjusted before transmission to give optimum gain when received by two or more antenna elements and a signal combining element. The signal includes a data... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070222678 - Radar device and mems mirror device therefor: A radar device includes a light projecting part that generates laser light, a light projecting lens that converges the generated laser light to form a beam, a reflective mirror for reflecting the converged beam to project it in a specified search direction and for reflecting returning light from this search... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20070222679 - Position determination by directional broadcast: Methods and systems to determine the position of objects indoors or in confined areas are disclosed. A multitude of broadcast stations are transmitting an omni-directional reference signal and directional signals having each a phase-shift depending upon their specific direction. The objects whose positions are to be identified have a transponder... Agent: Stephen B. Ackerman

20070222680 - Switched combiner gps receiver system: A receiving system includes a combiner configured to receive signals from two or more antenna elements and to generate sum and difference outputs, and a switch configured to sequentially provide the sum and difference outputs as inputs to a receiver.... Agent: Henricks Slavin And Holmes LLP Suite 200

20070216566 - Hostile intention assessment system and method: A hostile intention assessment system and method wherein a tracking sensor subsystem (e.g., radar) tracks targets relative to a critical asset. Determinations are made to assess if a first target is approaching a second target, and to assess if the second target is approaching the critical asset. If the first... Agent: Iandiorio & Teska

20070216567 - Pulse radar system: Provided is a pulse radar system capable of measuring the distance to an obstacle with high accuracy irrespective of the distance to an obstacle by securing distance resolution with respect to a reflective wave from an obstacle at a short distance, and preventing a decline in S/N ratio with respect... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20070216568 - Fmcw radar with restricted emission time to avoid aliasing effects: The invention relates to a radar system comprising an evaluation device (10) which determines the speed and/or the distance of at least one object to be located, on the basis of a spectral analysis of a measuring signal (h(t)) consisting of an emission signal and a reception signal (R(t)). According... Agent: Morrison & Foerster LLP

20070216569 - Elevation estimation method and radar apparatus using it: The invention relates to an elevation estimation method and a radar apparatus of the stacked beam type using it. For the accurate determination of the elevation of a object, use is made of interpolation on the basis of object strengths, measured in the different beams. Thus, an object of this... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20070216570 - Method and apparatus for signal detection: A method and apparatus for signal detection is provided herein. During operation logic circuitry will determine if a de-sensing signal exists within any received signal and, if a de-sensing signal exists, then it will be assumed that a radar pattern exists where the de-sensing signal exists within the signal. Any... Agent: Motorola, Inc.

20070216571 - Marking tape with passive resonant circuits and methods of use: A marking tape comprising at least one resonant circuit, each resonant circuit comprising an inductive coil and a capacitor, forming a resonant circuit of a selected frequency, comprises inductive coils and capacitors formed by conductive material layers (2, 3, 4) on the surfaces of a dielectric plastic film (1) and... Agent: Stites & Harbison PLLC

20070216574 - Method and device for storing economically auxiliary correction data applied in global navigation satellite system: A method applied in a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) for minimizing storage of correction data is disclosed. The method comprises: determining the receiver position and satellite positions; determining a intermediate point according to the receiver position and the satellite position; determining a current cell of the intermediate point; and... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20070216572 - Gps enabled emergency messaging system: A GPS enabled Emergency Messaging System (GEMS) includes: Emergency Response Centers (ERC's) for defining emergency broadcast messages directed to specified geographic areas; a GPS Control Segment (CS) facility that receives messages generated by the ERC's and coordinates uplink and downlink communications with orbiting GPS satellites; a GPS Space Segment (SS)... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20070216573 - Miniaturized satellite transceiver: Described is a miniaturized satellite transceiver for communicating with a Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite and a communications satellite. The miniaturized satellite transceiver includes an integrated GPS receiver configured to receive communications from the GPS satellite, a satellite modem configured to transmit and receive communications from the communications satellite, and... Agent: Proskauer Rose LLP

20070216575 - Method and system for all-in-view coherent gps signal prn codes acquisition and navigation solution determination: A method and system of the present disclosure allow for a more robust detection of GPS satellite ranging signals based on a simultaneous, all-in-view coherent PRN code signal processing scheme rather than acquisition of GPS signals one at a time. Additionally, the method and system may enable 10 dB or... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, PLC

20070216576 - Ultrasonic football linesman: A portable system for measuring and positioning a football on the playfield is revealed. The system measures ultrasonic sound wave propagation delay and relates it to yardage. It corrects for wind errors by sending ultrasonic waves in both directions on the playfield and measures the difference.... Agent: Donald A. Cass

20070216577 - Method for tracking a transmitter by means of a synthetic sparse antenna network: p

20070210952 - Beacon docking system with visual guidance display: A method of aligning a passenger boarding bridge to a doorway of an aircraft comprises initiating an automated alignment process for aligning the aircraft-engaging end of the passenger boarding bridge to the doorway. An input signal is received from a user aboard the aircraft, which is indicative of an emergency... Agent: Freedman & Associates

20070210953 - Aircraft collision sense and avoidance system and method: A collision sense and avoidance system and method and an aircraft, such as an Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV) and/or Remotely Piloted Vehicle (RPV), including the collision sense and avoidance system. The collision sense and avoidance system includes an image interrogator identifies potential collision threats to the aircraft and provides maneuvers... Agent: Law Office Of Charles W. Peterson, Jr. -- Boeing

20070210954 - Microwave frequency converter: A microwave frequency converter for a radar receiver is provided in which a frequency of a local oscillator of the microwave frequency converter can be prevented from interfering with an oscillation frequency of a magnetron included in the radar receiver and which can receive a signal from a considerably short... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070210955 - Error corrector for radar timing systems: A feedback loop corrects timing errors by reducing deviations from a constant radar sweep rate. Errors are detected and fed back to a phase corrector in a high gain feedback system. A precision radar rangefinder can be implemented with a direct digital synthesizer (DDS) that includes feedback error correction for... Agent: Thomas Edward Mcewan

20070210956 - Optical antenna with phase control: An optical antenna assembly including multiple optical antenna elements, each of the optical antenna elements are arranged in a regular pattern and carried by a supporting body. The regular pattern of the plurality of optical antenna elements is nonuniform. Certain ones of the optical antenna elements are configured to respond... Agent: Searete LLC Clarence T. Tegreene

20070210957 - Gps receiver for timekeeping applications: A GPS enabled timepiece. A timepiece in accordance with the present invention comprises a GPS receiver, wherein the GPS receiver is modified to operate in a timekeeping environment, a timepiece, coupled to the GPS receiver, wherein the GPS receiver provides time updates to the timepiece, and a display, coupled to... Agent: Gates & Cooper LLP Howard Hughes Center

20070210958 - Systems and methods for extracting coherent correlation data: An apparatus and method allow receivers to quickly acquire a pseudorandom noise signal. A receiver advantageously detects frequency shifts using a compact parallel process hardware implementation of a Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT). The simultaneous detection of multiple frequencies allows the receiver to search the frequency range of the transmitted signal... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070210960 - Beamforming rf circuit and applications thereof: A beamforming radio frequency (RF) circuit includes a plurality of antennas, a plurality of amplifiers and an adjust module. The plurality of antennas is operably coupled to interrelate a plurality of beamformed signal components with a beamformed signal. The plurality of amplifiers is operably coupled to interrelate the plurality of... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070210959 - Multi-beam tile array module for phased array systems: Described is a tile module for a phased array system. The tile module includes array elements configured in a two-dimensional array which is part of a larger subarray in the phased array system. A control module communicates with each array element to control a phase shift and an attenuation. In... Agent: Guerin & Rodriguez, LLP

20070210961 - Detemining location information of network equipment in wireless communication systems: A method and an apparatus are provided for determining location information of network equipment in a wireless communication system is provided. The method comprises estimating a parameter indicative of the location information for the network equipment based on a first beacon signal and a second beacon signal The first beacon... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20070205937 - Apparatus and method to identify targets through opaque barriers: The present invention is a method and apparatus that provides detection, characterization, and intuitive dissemination of targets. This disclosure combines improvements to ultra-wideband (UWB) sensing and machine target characterization with a means to convey data in a format that is quickly and readily understood by practitioners of the technology. The... Agent: Realtronics Corporation

20070205936 - Holographic arrays for multi-path imaging artifact reduction: A method and apparatus to remove human features utilizing at least one transmitter transmitting a signal between 200 MHz and 1 THz, the signal having at least one characteristic of elliptical polarization, and at least one receiver receiving the reflection of the signal from the transmitter. A plurality of such... Agent: Douglas E. Mckinley, Jr. Mckinley Law Office

20070205938 - Object detection system: An object detection system, in particular for a motor vehicle, has multiple object detectors and/or operating modes with which different detection ranges and/or detection zones are detected. In this case, an object detector is preferably a radar sensor which has a relatively large detection range with a relatively small angular... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070205939 - Apparatus and method for sharing a tcxo of a mobile terminal using a global positioning system in a mobile communication system: An apparatus and a method for sharing a temperature compensated crystal oscillator (TCXO) of a mobile terminal using a global positioning system (GPS). A communication system processor performs a process for a mobile communication system, computes a frequency variation according to a frequency change and outputs a value corresponding to... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070205940 - Method and device for tracking weak global navigation satellite system (gnss) signals: A Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver and associated method capable of tracking weak GNSS signals from a plurality of GNSS satellites. In a preferred embodiment, code and carrier tracking loops are initially closed around the code phase, carrier frequency, and data bit edge estimates handed over from an acquisition... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLPIPProsecution Department

20070205941 - Method for position determination with measurement stitching: A mobile communications device uses a method for determining position that involves a positioning filter, such as a Kalman filter, which is initialized with measurements from reference stations such as satellite vehicles and/or base stations which may be acquired during different epochs. Accordingly, the positioning filter may be used for... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070205942 - Method for a space-efficient gps receiver: In a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver, rather than storing both GPS satellite ephemeredes and almanacs to the GPS receiver's on-chip non-volatile memory, storing into the non-volatile memory only the more recent ephemeris or almanac data for each satellite. When an ephemeris expires, the parameters in the ephemeris are converted... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20070205943 - Adaptive beam-steering methods to maximize wireless link budget and reduce delay-spread using multiple transmit and receive antennas: A method and apparatus for adaptive beam-steering are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises performing adaptive beam steering using multiple transmit and receive antennas, including iteratively performing a pair of training sequences, wherein the pair of training sequences includes estimating a transmitter antenna-array weight vector and a receiver antenna-array... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070205944 - System and method for performing time difference of arrival location without requiring a common time base or clock calibration: A method for performing Time Difference Of Arrival (TDOA) that eliminates the need for a common time base or clock calibration and a system for implementing the method. The method relies on a packet transmitted from a reference wireless device (first wireless device) with a known propagation delay between the... Agent: Tucker Ellis & West LLP