Communications: directive radio wave systems and devices (e.g., radar, radio navigation) inventions 12/07

20070296624 - Electromagnetic wave absorbing plate: An electromagnetic wave absorbing plate composed of a transparent plate-like dielectric, wherein a thickness of the dielectric is determined such that an electromagnetic wave absorption quantity determined by using an incident side impedance Zxi at a time at which the electromagnetic wave becomes incident on a surface of the dielectric... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070296625 - Wideband interference cancellation using dsp algorithms: A method and system is provided for detecting and characterizing pulsed threat radar emitters through heavy in-band interference. System includes an advanced digital signal processing method provides spatial and temporal interference cancellation, super-resolution direction-finding, and high resolution spectrum analysis techniques. The system receives the digitized output of a discriminator bank... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20070296626 - Microwave transceiver unit for detecting the level of waste in a furnace: A microwave transceiver unit is for use in a shaft furnace is described. Two or more of the transceiver units are installed in the furnace and are used to determine the level of the waste in the shaft. Methods of using the transceiver units to determine the level of waste... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20070296627 - Quick deployable disaster satellite earth terminal: A communications system is provided, which includes a radome having a top portion, a bottom portion, a flanged mating area joining the top and bottom portion, and a means for lifting the radome at the flanged mating area. Methods of using are also disclosed.... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP Attn: Patent Group

20070296628 - A system controllable by an external microcontroller via an interface: A system controllable by an external microcontroller via an interface external to the system includes a radio module, and a GPS receiver. The radio module is adapted to 1) pass messages received via the interface to the GPS receiver via an internal interface, and 2) to receive messages from the... Agent: Bell, Boyd & Lloyd, LLP

20070296629 - Global positioning receiver with pn code output: A local ranging system for use with GPS receivers and GPS enabled devices. A device in accordance with the present invention comprises a Radio Frequency (RF) section, the RF section adaptable to receive at least one GPS signal from at least one GPS satellite, and a baseband section, coupled to... Agent: Gates & Cooper LLP Howard Hughes Center

20070296630 - Enhanced positional accuracy in geocoding by dynamic interpolation: A method and apparatus that improves the positional accuracy of a geocoded point in comparison to traditional goecoding methods and geocoders. The method and apparatus utilize ground truth data (when available) in conjunction with address range information for a given segment to achieve positional accuracy not currently achievable in the... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20070296631 - System and method for distributed signal compression for cooperative geolocation: A cooperative geolocation system and method. The system and method involves time stamping a plurality of received signals and modifying, such as compressing, one or more of the received signals, either with the same or with different rates of compression. A processing subsystem including a geolocation processor is used to... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, PLC

20070296632 - Psuedo television transmitters for position location: An apparatus having corresponding methods comprises a signal generator to generate an radio-frequency (RF) signal comprising a ranging signal comprising a component of a television signal; a wireless transmitter to wirelessly transmit the RF signal; and a self-check unit comprising a receiver to receive the RF signal, and to recover... Agent: Law Office Of Richard A. Dunning, Jr.

20070296633 - System and method for position estimation with high accuracy and a wireless communication terminal device therefor: A position estimation system acquires the information used for position estimation from radio signals. The system finds estimated positions of a plural number of radio devices, based at least on the information used for position estimation acquired, the positions of reference terminal devices and the distances by which the radio... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070290916 - Method of detecting physical phenomena: A method is provided for more accurate and reliable sensing of phenomena that are potentially obscured by noise, spoofing or jamming, that is deliberate attempts to obscure the phenomena by false signals or noise in response to the stimuli being provided and/or a detector being activated. The method deploys an... Agent: Edward S. Sherman, Esq.

20070290917 - Material movement sensing techniques: One embodiment of the present invention provides several electromagnetic radiation reflectors within a volume that contains solid portions subject to movement relative to one another. At least a portion of the reflectors are positioned beneath one or more of the solid portions and move in response to movement of at... Agent: Krieg Devault LLP

20070290918 - System for detecting obstacles in the vicinity of a touchdown point: e

20070290919 - Airspace separation control and collision avoidance: The invention provides methods for validating a position of an airborne platform, by comparing rate of change of a measure of barometric altitude with rate of change of a measure of geometric altitude. When the difference in rates of change exceeds at least one predetermined threshold an indication is provided... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20070290920 - Wireless communication apparatus method and system for vehicle: A wireless communication system for a vehicle includes a navigation apparatus and an emergency report apparatus. When a vehicle accessory switch is in an on position, the navigation apparatus performs a GPS synchronization to receive assistance data including almanac and ephemeris from a GPS satellite and outputs the assistance data... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070290921 - Circuit and method for generating a current pulse in a waveguide: A waveguide driving circuit for generating a current pulse in a waveguide includes a voltage source for providing a direct voltage, a choke the first terminal of which is coupled to a first terminal of the voltage source, a first switch the first terminal of which is coupled to a... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20070290922 - Beam switching antenna system and method and apparatus for controlling the same: A beam switching antenna method and apparatus for controlling a beam switching antenna system including an antenna element for forming a beam, at least one conductive reflector for reflecting the beam, and a ground switch for applying a reference voltage to the least one conductive reflector, the method including selectively... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070290923 - Relating to mobile location devices and methods: A mobile location device comprising geographical location means to provide device geographical location information and motion detection means to detect motion of the device, wherein the geographical location means is arranged to provide device geographical location information according to whether motion of the mobile location device is detected by the... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070290924 - Wireless resource monitoring system and method: A wireless resource monitoring system and method utilizes a network of deployed radio elements including at least one master radio, a plurality of beacons, and at least one tag. The beacons are placed at known positions. The master radio, the beacons and the tag are in wireless communication with each... Agent: Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP Intellectual Property Section

20070285303 - Airborne look-down doppler radar tracking of hovering helicopters using rotor features: A system and method is presented for detecting and classifying slow-moving and hovering helicopters from a missile's took-down Doppler radar that is compatible with the existing base of Doppler radars. This approach uses definable attributes of a helicopter rotor assembly and its extended Doppler rotor return to differentiate “rotor samples”... Agent: Noblitt & Gilmore, LLC.

20070285305 - Obstacle detection system for vehicle: An obstacle detection system determines a probability distribution of existence of an obstacle object corresponding to a distance in an irradiation direction of a transmission wave based on detected strength data per scanning-angle supplied from a radar device. A peak-value of the strength data becomes a maximum probability of existence... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070285302 - Step frequency high resolution radar: The present invention is directed to an improved radar system that produces high range resolution while using existing narrow processing bandwidths and sampling rates to achieve a low cost radar product that is particularly useful for moving targets. The present invention uses a small number of closely spaced Linear Frequency... Agent: Thomas A. O'rourke Bodner & O'rourke

20070285304 - Target orbit modification via gas-blast: The gas blast from a directed rocket motor transfers an impulse vector to a space target object thereby altering the target's orbit. Preceding the gas blast, a lower level of rocket exhaust may be directed to the target object for profile imaging that may include center of gravity determination using... Agent: Michael Blaine Brooks, P.C.

20070285306 - Verified distance ranging: Various techniques are described relating to verifying a distance between devices. A distance between two devices may be verified by requiring one of the devices to take one or more actions that generate a result that is only possible if the device is at most a given distance from the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070285307 - Radar apparatus: A radar apparatus includes a PN code generator for generating a PN code, a variable delay device for delaying the PN code, an oscillator for generating a high-frequency signal, a transmission frequency multiplier for multiplying a frequency of a transmission differential signal obtained by being divided from the high-frequency signal... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070285308 - Multiple frequency antenna structures and methods for receiving navigation or ranging signals: In a local positioning system, augmentation of the land-based system is provided by receiving signals from a GNSS. The signals from the land-based positioning system have a code phase accuracy better than one wavelength of a carrier of the signals from the GNSS. Different decorrelation may be used for signals... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20070285310 - Apparatus and process for a global navigation satellite system meeting safety of life performance requirements: A satellite system for providing a navigation service includes a ground segment and a user segment. The ground segment provides information to enable the user segment to autonomously determine the user position performance.... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20070285309 - Enhancing time keeping accuracy for low power gps receivers: A mobile device including a positioning device for determining position by timing analysis of received signals, the positioning device including a system for determining timing accuracy, the system including first signal generating means for continuously generating a first clock signal whilst the positioning device is inactive, second signal generating means... Agent: Harrington & Smith, PC

20070285311 - Method for adjusting a measurement cycle in a satellite positioning system signal receiver: A method for adjusting a measurement cycle in a satellite signal receiver is described. The method includes adjusting a measurement cycle in a satellite signal receiver by computing a position state comprising at least one of a velocity and a heading of the satellite signal receiver, detecting a change in... Agent: Raymond R. Moser Jr., Esq. MoserIPLaw Group

20070285312 - Adaptive multi-beam system: A system and method of providing an adaptive multi-beam capability to a wireless base transceiver station is disclosed. The system comprises a plurality of transmit and receive antenna arrays and a plurality of static beamformers to form a limited number of beams. The beam data is reduced to digital baseband... Agent: Lawrence G. Kurland, Esq. Bryan Cave LLP

20070285313 - Beam switching antenna system and method and apparatus for controlling the same: A method and apparatus for controlling a beam switching antenna system of a mobile communication terminal, the method includes forming a beam; determining whether an earphone is connected to the mobile communication terminal; and controlling the formed beam to have non-directivity if the earphone is connected to the mobile communication... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20070285314 - Phased array systems and phased array front-end devices: Disclosed herein is a front-end device for a phased array system. The front-end device includes an array of horn antennas, a first set of transmission lines coupled to the horn antenna array for a first polarization, a second set of transmission lines coupled to the horn antenna array for a... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070285315 - Phase arrays exploiting geometry phase and methods of creating such arrays: In the context of array sensors such as radar, sonar, and communications receiver arrays, the present invention exploits the geometry phase components of radiated wavefronts associated with the signals of interest in order to reduce the bandwidth requirements for DOA and beamforming processing. Additionally, geometry phase is exploited in order... Agent: Dennis W. Davis

20070279276 - Pseudomonopulse tracking system with variable coupler and integrated lna: System for dynamically tracking a position of a target with an antenna in a communication system. The system includes an antenna system (410) configured for generating a sum and difference antenna pattern (201-1, 201-2). A sum RF channel (401) is coupled to a sum channel output of the antenna system.... Agent: Harris Corporation C/o Darby & Darby PC

20070279277 - Radio-frequency device, and radio-frequency tag communication device: A radio-frequency device includes a PAA processing portion configured to control a directivity of reception of a receiver antenna device, a received-signal-strength detecting portion configured to detect a strength of the received signal received by the receiver antenna device, and a direction detecting portion configured to detect the direction toward... Agent: Baker Botts LLP C/o Intellectual Property Department

20070279278 - Method and apparatus for equalizing broadband chirped signal: In order to generate a signal for canceling a chirped signal, a transmitter generates a cancellation signal along with the transmitted signal, using a single term variable complex gain multiplier adapted to cancel the chirped signal only at its instantaneous frequency, rather than attempting to cancel it with a complex... Agent: Tyco Technology Resources

20070279279 - System and method for enhancing the performance of satellite navigation receivers: A system and method for enhancing the performance of satellite navigation receivers are disclosed, which incorporate a precise frequency reference in a satellite navigation receiver that reduces the system's dependence on maintaining continuous satellite reception for RAIM availability. As one example, a system for enhancing the performance of a satellite... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20070279280 - Positioning receiver: A positioning receiver is shown having one or more receiving channels for receiving a signal from a positioning station, a controlling element for controlling the reception of the signal from the positioning station, and a clock generator for generating a clock signal for said controlling element. The positioning receiver also... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20070279282 - Navigating method for cell phone with positioning device and apparatus thereof: A navigating method for a cell phone with a positioning device and the apparatus thereof are described. The longitudinal and latitudinal coordinates of a guiding mobile in a global positioning system (GPS) are sent to a guided mobile via a short message service (SMS). After decoding the short message contents,... Agent: Rabin & Berdo, PC

20070279281 - Server device, mobile terminal and positioning mode selecting method: A calculation server estimates a position of a mobile terminal that communicates with a base station incorporated with received global positioning system satellite signals. The calculation server includes a positioning information analyzer configured to select one of the positioning modes to be used out of a cell/sector positioning mode and... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070279283 - Vehicle tracking unit with downloadable codes and associated methods: A multi-vehicle compatible tracking unit is for a vehicle including a vehicle data bus extending throughout the vehicle. The vehicle tracking unit may include a vehicle position determining device, a wireless communications device, and a multi-vehicle compatible controller for cooperating with the vehicle position determining device and the wireless communications... Agent: Christopher F. Regan, Esquire Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist, P.A.

20070279284 - Method to design polarization arrangements for mimo antennas using state of polarization as parameter: The invention described herein provides a method of polarization based optimum constellation arrangements for modulation, multiplexing, diversity and spatio-temporal coding in wireless communication. The invention makes use of the polarization signal space to design optimal constellation arrangements, and to provide optimal State of Polarizations (SOPs) for Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) antennae for... Agent: Alix Yale & Ristas LLP