Communications: directive radio wave systems and devices (e.g., radar, radio navigation) inventions 10/07

20070247349 - Wave absorber: A wave absorber of the present invention includes a sequentially laminated structure including an conductor layer (11) made of a conductive material; a first dielectric layer (polycarbonate substrate (12) and bismaleimide-triazine substrate (13)) made of one layer or a multilayer of a dielectric material; and a patterned layer (14) including... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, LLP

20070247350 - Method and apparatus of compressing terrain data: A method and apparatus for reformatting terrain data that in turn increases compressibility of the terrain data. The method includes storing each sample of terrain data as a signed integer offset in hundreds of feet from a previous sample of terrain data; compressing the each sample of terrain data using... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20070247351 - Wideband radar: The invention refers to a method and device for wideband radar, the method comprising: generating a wideband signal (1, 6) with a bandwidth B; copying the wideband signal (1, 6); transmitting the wideband signal (6′); receiving a returned echo signal (11) from the transmitted signal (6′); dividing the copied signal... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20070247352 - Detecting objects within a near-field of a frequency modulated continuous wave (fmcw) radar system: The present disclosure relates to a radar device and technique for detecting the presence of objects located in the near-field of a frequency modulated, continuous wave (FMCW) radar device. The technique includes transmitting and receiving a frequency modulated signal, generating an intermediate frequency signal based on the transmitted and received... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20070247353 - Method and apparatus for performing bistatic radar functions: A bistatic radar system having a transmitter that generates unique signals at spatially independent transmitter degrees of freedom and a receiver that filters the signal at each receiver degree of freedom into a group of signals identical in number to the number of transmitter degrees of freedom. The receiver formats... Agent: 24ip Law Group Usa, PLLC

20070247354 - Ephemeris extension method for gnss applications: Systems, methods and devices for improving the performance of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receivers are disclosed. In particular, the improvement of the ability to calculate a satellite position or a receiver position where a receiver has degraded ability to receive broadcast ephemeris data directly from a GNSS satellite is... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070247356 - Adjustable time-division multiplexing receiver for receiving satellite signal and method for the same: A satellite signal adjustable time-division multiplexing receiver for GNSS and a method for acquiring and tracking satellite signal used in the receiver. The present invention executes correlation in an adjustable time-division multiplexing and uses a clock signal with a clock rate to control speed of correlation. The clock rate can... Agent: Madson & Austin Gateway Tower West

20070247358 - Gps device: A satellite positioning device comprising: a timing synchronisation circuit arranged to provide timing data for location estimation. The circuit being arranged to, in a first mode, provide the timing data in dependence on at least one received satellite positioning signal without the assistance of a location estimate and, in a... Agent: Morgan & Finnegan, L.L.P.

20070247357 - Method and apparatus for adapting a receiver frequency plan according to location: A selectable frequency source for use in GPS receivers. A device in accordance with the present invention comprises a reference frequency source, a first divider, coupled to the reference frequency source, the first divider having a first dividing factor, a first mixer, coupled to the first divider, a filter, coupled... Agent: Gates & Cooper LLP Howard Hughes Center

20070247355 - Satellite positioning system receivers and methods: A satellite positioning system receiver having a battery, wherein the receiver is programmed to determine (310) whether the receiver is connected to a power supply other than its battery, to begin continuous reception (320) of satellite positioning system navigation data when the receiver is connected to a power supply other... Agent: Motorola Inc

20070247359 - Automatic gps tracking system with passive battery circuitry: Portable Battery operated asset mount GPS tracking apparatus, having a processor, GPS receiver and a satellite or cellular modem. Incorporated with a low power consumption RF transceiver, the transceiver is designed to communicate at time interval with a home base station RF transceiver unit, located within the communication range of... Agent: Ohanes D. Ghazarian

20070247361 - Communication system with assisted gps and sbas: A communication system includes a reference station and a mobile station. The reference station is operable to: receive GPS signals; generate GPS assisting data from the received GPS signals; receive SBAS signals; obtain SBAS data from the received SBAS signals; combine the GPS assisting data and the SBAS data to... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20070247360 - Global positioning system receiver capable of simultaneously receiving global positioning system signal and frequency modulation sub-wave signal: A global positioning system (GPS) receiver capable of simultaneously receiving a global positioning system signal and a frequency modulation sub-wave signal includes two antennas, one for receiving a GPS signal and the other for receiving a frequency modulation (FM) sub-wave signal such that these signals are computed and resolved by... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070247362 - Signal inconsistency detection of spoofing: Methods and apparatus relating to signal inconsistency detection of spoofing (SIDS), i.e. the use of inconsistencies in signals received at a plurality of points in space to detect spoofing.... Agent: Snell & Wilmer LLP (oc)

20070247363 - Antenna calibration method and apparatus: Measurements of frequency and/or phase are taken at the signal ports (S1-S4) of an ISS device (10). These measurements are used to determine phase errors within the ISS device, and phase errors due to the antenna cables (C1-C4). On port, (e.g., S1) is selected as the reference port and then,... Agent: Powell Goldstein LLP

20070247364 - Handheld gps device: A handheld GPS device has a device body. A base band processor is installed in the device body. Three antennas with high directivity are respectively installed perpendicular to three surfaces of the device body for receiving GPS signals. A control device is coupled to the base band processor and the... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070247365 - Methods and apparatus relating to wireless terminal beacon signal generation, transmission, and/or use: A portable wireless terminal generates and transmits a beacon signal. The beacon signal includes a sequence of beacon signal bursts, each beacon signal burst including one or more beacon symbols. A beacon symbol is transmitted using the air link resources of a beacon symbol transmission unit at a relatively high... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070247367 - Secure wireless user localization scheme using transmission range variation: A secure localization method for wireless networks utilizes access point variable transmission power capability to transmit encoded localization signals at different power levels to a wireless device in the network. Based on the particular combination of encoded signals collected by the wireless device and reported back to a network controller,... Agent: Watchstone P + D

20070247366 - Wireless postion location and tracking system: Techniques for accurate position location and tracking suitable for a wide range of facilities in variable environments are disclosed. In one aspect, a system for position location comprises a plurality of sensors (e.g. a network monitor, an environment sensor) for generating a measurements of a plurality of sources, a plurality... Agent: Clause Eight Intellectual Property Services

20070247368 - System and method for multilaterating a position of a target using mobile remote receiving units: A method of multilaterating the position of a target, including the steps of deploying a plurality of time synchronized receiving units in a network that allows the receiving units to communicate with a central processor; receiving a target signal from the target at each receiving unit; determining a time of... Agent: Burr & Brown

20070241954 - Syntactic target classifier: Disclosed is a Syntactic Landmine Detector. The syntactic landmine detector processes a received signal from a ground penetrating RADAR which contains at least one spatial sequence, the spatial sequence containing relative spatial information locating impedance discontinuities. The spatial sequence is then associated with at least one physical characteristic of a... Agent: George Mason University Office Of Technology Transfer, Msn 5g5

20070241955 - System having two or more sensors: A system having two or more sensors is described. Each sensor has a transmitter and a receiver for signals, a sensor being able to receive a cross echo signal of another sensor. The sensors are also able to receive and evaluate the signals reflected by the other sensor without mutual... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070241957 - Method and apparatus for providing an integrated communications, navigation and surveillance satellite system: A system provides integrated communications, navigation and surveillance capabilities. A plurality of satellites broadcast multiple navigation signals and is capable of two-way communication. At least one monitoring station is capable of receiving the navigation signals broadcast by the satellites and of determining its position based upon the received navigation signals.... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, PLC

20070241958 - Method and apparatus for geolocation determination: The disclosure relates to method and apparatus for geolocation determination. In one embodiment, the disclosure relates to a method for detecting an erroneous satellite measurement by a receiver, including the steps of (a) determining an approximate location of the receiver; (b) for each of a plurality of satellites from which... Agent: Duane Morris LLP

20070241959 - Timepiece and time correction method: A timepiece comprises a reception subunit, a timekeeping unit that holds internal time data indicative of the current time, storage, and a CPU. The CPU determines whether the internal time data acquired from the timekeeping unit matches correction time data stored in storage, selects a GPS satellite represented by satellite... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070241960 - Enhancement of gnss position determination in poor signal propagation environments: A system, for enhancing location estimates by movable rovers that use receivers for processing ranging signals from orbiting satellites, including a fixed base station that serves as a ranging signal source for the rovers' receivers. The base station may also determine and transmit the azimuthal angles of the respective rovers.... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20070241961 - Rtk-gps surveying system: An RTK-GPS surveying system for surveying an object includes at least one satellite positioning device as a base station configured to send correction data, a plurality of satellite positioning devices as rover stations configured to receive the correction data, and a server provided in an IP-VPN communication network for establishing... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20070241956 - Wireless communication device and associated method including control of positioning-system receiver and shared oscillator: The wireless communication device includes a wireless communication transceiver to generate an oscillator control signal and an activation signal, a positioning-system receiver (e.g. a GPS receiver) to process received positioning signals, and a shared oscillator (e.g. a temperature compensated and voltage controlled crystal oscillator TCVCXO) responsive to the oscillator control... Agent: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist P.A.

20070241962 - Automotive radar: A small and light automotive radar having a high detection performance by preventing the road clutter and its in-vehicle positioning is optional is provided. The automotive radar comprises an antenna 1, 2a, 2b equipped with at least one radiating element which radiates linear polarized radio waves; a slit plate 7... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20070241963 - Calibration of a device location measurement system that utilizes wireless signal strengths: An architecture for minimizing calibration effort in an IEEE 802.11 device location measurement system. The calibration technique is based upon a regression function that produces adequately accurate location information as a function of signal strength regardless of gaps in the calibration data or minimally available data. The algorithm takes a... Agent: Amin. Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070241964 - Method and system for positioning mobile units based on angle measurements: A method and system for positioning mobile units using angle measurements taken by neighboring mobile units is disclosed. A selected mobile unit and mobile units in the vicinity of the selected mobile unit are selectively instructed to measure and report information related to the position of the selected mobile unit.... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20070241965 - Location and tracking of people with combined use of rf infrascture and dead reckoning modules: A system for tracking persons and other assets in a structure, having a multi-function tracking tag and a network of fixed RF receivers forming a gateway array. The location of the person being tracked is calculated by a computer using an algorithm that weights each separate signal according to the... Agent: Kris T. Fredrick, Esq. Patent Services

20070236382 - Non-directional laser-based self-protection: A missile or other weapons countermeasure system includes a non-directional, modulated laser energy signal designed to protect an object (such as an aircraft, land vehicle, building, or vessel). Once a potential threat has been detected, a laser energy source generates a laser energy signal of sufficient power to provide the... Agent: Bae Systems Information And Electronic Systems Integration Inc.

20070236383 - Compression and transmission of weather data: Weather radar reflectivity data is compressed by converting radar data to image pixels. Next, contours are traced from select groupings of the pixels. Control points are derived from the contours. The control points represent a compressed version of the radar data and may be used to recreate and fill the... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070236384 - Cost-effective friend-or-foe (iff) combat infrared alert and identification system (cid): A compact and cost-effective infrared IFF alert system for small arm based on fiber-optical (FO) technology, comprising an optical interrogator and an optical transponder, is provided. The interrogator attached to a small arm, such as a rifle, includes a FO laser diode and FO receiver, which are connected to FO... Agent: Gennadii Ivtsendov

20070236385 - Radar level gauging system: A radar level gauging system comprising a microwave unit for transmitting and receiving first microwaves having a first and second distinguishable characteristics, a microwave absorber adapted to be arranged in a bottom region of the tank and adapted to absorb electromagnetic energy of microwaves having one of the first and... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20070236386 - Device and method for exchanging information over terrestrial and satellite links: A system includes a satellite antenna adapted to receive right hand circularly polarized radiation and left hand circularly polarized radiation over a satellite link, and a terrestrial multiple sector antenna adapted to receive terrestrial communication; wherein the satellite antenna is oriented in relation to an imaginary vertical axis that is... Agent: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

20070236387 - Method of optimization of processing of location data in the presence of a plurality of satellite positioning constellations: The present invention concerns a method of optimization of processing of signals from satellite positioning systems in the case where at least two satellite systems cohabit and are utilized to obtain the position of a receiver. One of the systems is given preference on the basis of a criterion of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070236388 - Mobile reference station for production of correction signals for a differential position-finding device: e

20070236389 - Reference beacon methods and apparatus for tdoa/fdoa geolocation: A method and apparatus for estimating bias errors in a time-difference-of-arrival/frequency-difference-of-arrival (TDOA/FDOA) geolocation system using a reference signal transmitter in which position and/or motion information of the reference signal transmitter is encoded into the reference signal. The motion information may include the velocity and/or acceleration of the reference signal transmitter.... Agent: Brosemer, Kolefas & Associates, LLC - (boeing)

20070229346 - Rubber composition for electromagnetic wave absorber and electromagnetic wave absorbing sheet: This invention provides a rubber composition and an electromagnetic wave absorbing sheet that can realize excellent electromagnetic wave absorbance properties while only having a small thickness and is also excellent in flexibility. The rubber composition comprises 100 parts by weight of a rubber component such as natural rubber and 300... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20070229348 - Frequency based hybrid pulse for detection of meteorological phenomena in radar systems: A system and method for detecting meteorological phenomena by transmitting a sequence of pulses, each pulse having a long range section and a short range section. Echoes based on the sequence of pulses are received. A filter is applied to the echoes to create an ambiguity signal that allows simultaneous... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20070229347 - Methods and systems for avoidance of partial pulse interference in radar: Systems and methods for avoidance of partial pulse interference in radar. The systems and methods include a radar processor for generating control signals that direct the generation and transmission of two consecutive radar pulses using a waveform and pulse train generator and transmitter. The systems and methods also include receiving... Agent: Black Lowe & Graham, PLLC

20070229349 - Radar device and method for adjusting among radar sites: A radar device includes a generation unit, a transmission unit, and a control unit. The generation unit selectively generates a set of a plurality of transmission signals whose center frequencies are different from one another within an assigned frequency band. The transmission unit emits the transmission signals. The control unit... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070229350 - Apparatus and method for providing location information on individuals and objects using tracking devices: A system for monitoring objects and individuals. The system includes a first tracking device and a monitoring station to track location information. A user interface provides to remotely access the monitoring station. The user interface includes a graphical rendering to select a series of keystrokes. The graphical rendering prevents unauthorized... Agent: Law Office Of Robert E. Kasody, Professional Corp.

20070229351 - Cold start satellite search method: A method for searching satellites in a cold start state. The method of the present invention, a first satellite, which is predetermined or randomly selected, is searched. Then, a second satellite to be searched is selected according to the searching result (hit or missed) for the first satellite and respective... Agent: Madson & Austin Gateway Tower West

20070229352 - Satellite search method: A method for searching satellites is disclosed. In the method of the present invention, the satellites are selected to consist of a group, and searching is conducted in this group. The group size is predetermined for each stage so as to be the most appropriate for various searching conditions. The... Agent: Madson & Austin Gateway Tower West

20070229353 - Method for frequency-driven generation of a multiresolution decomposition of the input to wave-based sensing arrays: A method for generating a multiresolution decomposition of an array signal by a bank of spatial bandpass filters is disclosed. The signal processing operation is implemented through the use of the directivities of the individual array elements and does not degrade the spatial or temporal resolution of the array.... Agent: Rolf Mueller

20070229354 - Radio monitoring apparatus and method: Disclosed is radio monitoring apparatus which includes a radio station distinction unit, a direction measurement unit, a transmission source location estimation unit and a transmission source location classification unit. The radio station distinction unit outputs radio station distinction information for uniquely discriminating a radio station that is a transmission source... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070229355 - Method and system for determining position of terminal by using location detector in gps satellite-invisible area: The method for positioning a mobile terminal in a GPS satellite-invisible area by using a mapping server including the mobile terminal, a location detector, a PDE and a database, comprising: (a) obtaining a reference pilot signal of a base station or a repeater and a LD pilot signal from the... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Berner, LLP

20070229356 - Devices, systems and method of determining the location of mobile personnel: A locator system to be associated with a mobile person includes a receiver to receive ultra-wide bandwidth signals and a transmitter to transmit ultra-wide bandwidth signals. The transmitter is adapted to transmit ultra-wide bandwidth signals, and the receiver is adapted to receive ultra-wide bandwidth signals from at least one other... Agent: James G. Uber, Esq. Mine Safety Appliances Company