Communications: directive radio wave systems and devices (e.g., radar, radio navigation) inventions 02/08

20080048905 - Precision pulse detection system for radar sensors: A precision pulse detection system for time-of-flight sensors detects a zero axis crossing of a pulse after it crosses above and then falls below a threshold. Transmit and receive pulses flow through a common expanded-time receiver path to precision transmit and receive pulse detectors in a differential configuration. The detectors... Agent: Thomas Edward Mcewan

20080048906 - Electronic scanning radar apparatus: An electronic scanning radar apparatus has a cutting portion for cutting receiving data which is comprised of N numbers of data for each channel into two more short time data having M (<N) numbers of data in a time direction for each channel, an inverse matrix estimator for computing and... Agent: Wolf, Block, Schorr & Solis-cohen LLP

20080048907 - Object direction detection method and apparatus for determining target object direction based on rectified wave phase information obtained from plurality of pairs of receiver elements: A method of detecting a direction of a target object based on received signals from a receiver element section which receives reflected waves comprising probe waves reflected from said target object, wherein said receiver section comprises an array of four receiver elements with at least three of said receiver elements... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080048908 - Device control device, speech recognition device, agent device, on-vehicle device control device, navigation device, audio device, device control method, speech recognition method, agent processing method, on-vehicle device control method, navigation meth: A speech recognition unit (2) performs speech recognition on a speech of an utterer input by a speech input unit (1), specifies possible words which are represented by the speech, and the scores thereof, and a natural language analyzer (3) specifies parts of speech of the words and supplies word... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080048909 - Mobile object locating system: In a system for remotely locating a mobile object and in particular of a vehicle on the basis of a remote control system comprising a control device associated with the mobile object, an identification device on the user side, for example with an associated transceiver or with separate transmitter and... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20080048910 - Method of enhanced cold start and associated user interface for navigational receivers: The present invention provides systems and methods for reducing the ‘cold start’ TTFF of navigation receivers. The systems and methods receive geographical information from a user, such as the nearest city, state or country, and use this geographical information to approximate the position of the receiver. The systems and methods... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLPIPProsecution Department

20080048911 - Beamforming apparatus and method: A beamforming apparatus obtains the beamforming parameters that realize arbitrary desirable PSF by using optimization theories. The apparatus uses at least one of the beamforming parameters such as the intensities, frequencies, bandwidths and shapes of the signals transmitted by the transmitting unit, the filtering of noises, amplifications (gains) and shapes... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080048912 - Gps node locator using an intermediate node location for determining location of a remote node: A GPS positioning system having a remote node and a network-aided GPS node locator. The remote node samples a GPS signal and transmits the GPS signal samples through a communication network having an intermediate node. The GPS node locator receives the GPS signal samples through the communication network, geolocates the... Agent: David R. Gildea Menlo Patent Agency LLC

20080048913 - Local positioning system and method: The invention relates to a system for local positioning of a set of at least one element (25, 26, 27) in a building (28) including at least one more or less congested room, which includes a network of at least three stationary sources (30, 31, 32), transmitting signals at frequencies... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20080048914 - Wireless position 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 measurements of a plurality of sources, a plurality of... Agent: Clause Eight Intellectual Property Services

20080042892 - Buried object detection sensor: A combined type buried object detection sensor is provided, in which a MD and a GPR are integrated to improve a detectivity. A buried object detection sensor 10 has a constitution in which plural antenna elements composing a GPR 14 are disposed on a circumference, an inner coil 16 of... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080042893 - Methods for two-dimensional autofocus in high resolution radar systems: Provided are two-dimensional autofocus methods in a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) system which include: (1) two-dimensional pulse pair product algorithm including shear PGA, eigenvector phase history (“EPH”), shear PGA/EPH); (2) two-dimensional optimization algorithms including parametric one-dimensional estimate/two-dimensional correction, parametric two dimensional estimate/two-dimensional correction, unconstrained two-dimensional nonparametric and constrained two-dimensional nonparametric... Agent: Steptoe & Johnson LLP

20080042894 - Vehicle control system: In a vehicle control system, when an inter-vehicular distance between a subject vehicle and a preceding vehicle detected by a radar device is less than or equal to a predetermined value, automatic braking is performed or an alarm is activated to alert a driver to prevent a collision. A stationary... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20080042895 - Target object detection system: A target object detection system (1) that emits to target objects transmission signals (22), as transmission waves (23), whose frequencies have been modulated successively into a plurality of stepped frequencies, and receives echoes (24) of the transmission waves (23) reflected from the target objects, thereby to calculate relative velocities of... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080042896 - Using radar targets of opportunity to build a monopulse calibration table: In a radar system, a monopulse calibration table is constructed from live targets of opportunity. A center of gravity or weighted average of normalized signals ΔV received at SUM and DIFF channels from a live target are used to determine the target's actual azimuth. Off bore sight angles (OBA) of... Agent: Patti, Hewitt & Arezina LLC

20080042897 - Microwave and millimeter frequency bistatic radar tracking and fire control system: A bistatic passive radar system for tracking at least one target utilizing means for transmitting radar signals from at least one satellite platform in a geosynchronous orbit with the earth, means for receiving radar signals from a reflection from each target, means for tracking a position of each target over... Agent: Navairwd Counsel Group

20080042898 - System and method for locating wireless devices: A system and method for locating a wireless device includes estimating respective distances between a wireless device and each of a plurality of access points, based upon respective signal strengths of a plurality of signals received by the wireless device from the plurality of access points. The location of the... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P.

20080042899 - Method and apparatus for geographic-based communications service: A geographic-based communications service system has a mobile unit for transmitting/receiving information, and access points connected to a network. The access points are arranged in a known geographic locations and transmit and receive information from the mobile unit. When one of the access points detects the presence of the mobile... Agent: B. Noel Kivlin

20080042900 - Method and apparatus for geographic-based communications service: A geographic-based communications service system has a mobile unit for transmitting/receiving information, and access points connected to a network. The access points are arranged in a known geographic locations and transmit and receive information from the mobile unit. When one of the access points detects the presence of the mobile... Agent: B. Kivlin Noel Conley, Rose & Tayon, PC.

20080042901 - Wireless position 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 measurements of a plurality of sources, a plurality of... Agent: Clause Eight Intellectual Property Services

20080042902 - Apparatus for multilateration and method: To cater for the positioning of an aircraft in a boundary zone between two adjacent multilateration systems, the controller (14) in one system receives Time Difference of Arrival data provided by the controller (15) in the second system. The controller (15) derives the TDoA data from time of arrival data... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080036643 - Dual frequency reception of spread spectrum signals: A method, computer program, computer program product, system, transmitter, receiver and module are shown for dual frequency reception, wherein a receive signal is obtained that contains a first signal with a first center frequency f1 and a second signal with a second center frequency f2, wherein said receive signal is... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20080036644 - Short-range radar having a multiple sensor system for determining the location of objects enclosed in a medium: A radar device is described, in particular a hand-held short-range radar for determining the location of objects enclosed in a medium, including at least one radar sensor, which generates a first, high-frequency detection signal for penetrating a medium to be tested in such a way that information about an object... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080036645 - Electronic scanning radar apparatus: A sampled beat signal is cut out into two or more short time data in a time direction concerning each antenna component. From a frequency spectrum of the short time data, an interference element frequency of an interference wave is detected. From the interference element frequency of the interference wave,... Agent: Wolf, Block, Schorr & Solis-cohen LLP

20080036647 - Method and apparatus for measuring distance between bluetooth terminals: Disclosed is a method for measuring a distance between portable Bluetooth terminals. The method includes transmitting first distance measurement radio waves to a specific portable Bluetooth terminal corresponding to user selection from among one or more portable Bluetooth terminals which can be connected through Bluetooth; and if second distance measurement... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080036646 - Geodesic position determining system: A geodesic positioning system determines the position of a target point. The system includes a range pole that can be oriented toward the target point. A tilt sensor is arranged on the range pole, detachably where applicable, for generating a tilt angle signal related to the tilt angle of the... Agent: Workman Nydegger

20080036648 - Method and system for calibrating esa, distributed waveform generator and receivers in sub-arrays: A system for calibrating waveform generators and receivers of non-overlapping electronic scanning antennas includes a first sub-array, a second sub-array and a calibration cable. The first sub-array includes a first waveform generator, a first receiver, and a first switch assembly. The second sub-array includes a second waveform generator, a second... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080036649 - Time-of-flight-ranging system and method for calibrating such a system: An embedded calibration mechanism and method for a time-of-flight ranging system. The calibration mechanism (200) comprises a channel (202) having known characteristics. Periodically or as part of a calibration function, a pulse is transmitted through the calibration channel (202) and parameters such transmit pulse delay time and apparent velocity are... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080036650 - Method and apparatus for determining absolute time-of-day in a mobile-assisted satellite positioning system: A method and apparatus for determining time-of-day in a mobile receiver is described. In one example, expected pseudoranges to a plurality of satellites are obtained. The expected pseudoranges are based on an initial position of the mobile receiver and an initial time-of-day. Expected line-of-sight data to said plurality of satellites... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080036651 - Method and apparatus for processing of satellite signals without time of day information: Method and apparatus for locating position of a satellite signal receiver is described. In one example, pseudoranges are obtained that estimate the range of a satellite signal receiver to a plurality of satellites. An absolute time and a position are computed using the pseudoranges at a first time. The absolute... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080036652 - Positioning system and method: A positioning system designed to provide a three dimensional location of an object. The system can include one or more multiple transmitters or electromagnetic beacons, software defined radio receivers with an associated processing unit and data acquisition system, and magnetic antennas. The system applies theoretical calculations, scale model testing, signal... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080036653 - Gps based friend location and identification system and method: A system and method for observing a personal networking event which shares the position of a number of friendly participants with other participants within a group. In one form, the position of unknown participants meeting certain criteria is also displayed to a user or one or more friendly participants. The... Agent: Daffer Mcdaniel LLP

20080036654 - Method for fusing multiple gps measurement types into a weighted least squares solution: A method of calculating position data for an airborne aircraft using a GPS-based airborne navigation system includes the processing of a position component of a relative state function by fusing a plurality of different types of measurement data available in the GPS-based system into a weighted least squares algorithm to... Agent: Klein, O'neill & Singh, LLP

20080036655 - Culled satellite ephemeris information based on limiting a span of an inverted cone for locating satellite in-range determinations: Locating satellites (e.g., GPS) are culled into a sub-plurality based largely on dwell time within an inverted cone above a relevant site in communication with a wireless device. A first inverted cone having a first base angle is defined above a first site, a second inverted cone having a second... Agent: Manelli Denison & Selter PLLC

20080036656 - Two-sectional controlling method and device for satellite antenna: A controlling device for a satellite antenna is provided. The controlling device includes a first signal generating device generating an inertial compensating signal having a compensating direction; a second signal generating device assembling a received signal from a satellite and generating an orientation with a strongest satellite signal in responding... Agent: Michael W. Taylor

20080036657 - Null-fill antenna, omni antenna, and radio communication equipment: A wide-angle null-fill antenna with no null in the depression angle range, an omni antenna using the same, and radio communication equipment. A null-fill antenna comprises a first antenna array including antenna elements arranged with a prescribed point as the center, and a second antenna array having amplitude characteristics substantially... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080036658 - Method and an arrangement for estimating the position of a mobile terminal with a prediction method, and a mobile terminal: A method an arrangement to reduce amount data to be sent in a tracking system of a mobile station (MTT) having a positioning device to obtain positioning data, and the mobile station (MTT) and the server (S) perform the following steps: the mobile station (MTT) sends its dynamic state parameters... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20080036659 - Correlation of flight track data with other data sources: A method of triangulating aircraft transponder signals using a number of receivers connected to a central station over communication links includes applying at least one logic rule at each receiver to incoming transponder signals to filter redundant transponder signals, time-stamping filtered transponder signals, and transmitting time-stamped transponder signals to the... Agent: Robert Platt Bell Registered Patent Attorney

20080036660 - Self-surveying wideband ground transmitters: A precise positioning method and system is disclosed for allowing an array of ground transmitters to self-survey their relative location at centimeter-level accuracy by transmitting, amongst the ground transmitters in the array, bi-directional ranging signals associated with a wideband code modulation with a chipping rate faster than 30 MHz.... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20080036661 - Wireless position 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 measurements of a plurality of sources, a plurality of... Agent: Clause Eight Intellectual Property Services

20080030393 - Method and system for real time pulse processing in atcrbs/mode-s transponders: An apparatus for processing pulses in ATCRBS/Mode S interrogations includes an antenna for receiving a radio frequency interrogation signal. The radio frequency interrogation signal is downconverted by a downconverter to an intermediate frequency signal. The intermediate frequency signal is converted to a digitized interrogation signal by an analog-to-digital converter. A... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080030395 - Single bit pseudomonopulse tracking system for frequency agile receivers: A system for generating a pseudomonopulse tracking error includes an antenna system (401) that generates a sum antenna beam and a difference antenna beam. The sum antenna beam has a pattern with a peak gain on the boresight axis, and the difference antenna beam has a pattern that is circularly... Agent: Harris Corporation C/o Darby & Darby PC

20080030397 - Method for solving two rf signals' angular position: A method for determining an angle for each of two RF signals at different frequencies and offset from each other. The average angle of a composite signal is obtained from the two RF signals over a frequency difference period by averaging the frequency difference period. The average angle of the... Agent: Navairwd Counsel Group

20080030394 - Monitor: A monitoring apparatus of the present application comprises: a transmission antenna section for sending out a radio wave of single beam having a wide angle or alternatively a radio wave having a narrower (angular) range in a plurality of beam directions; a receiving antenna section for receiving the radio wave... Agent: Ratnerprestia

20080030396 - Timing adjustment method for radar, and radar apparatus having automatic timing adjusting function: On/off timing of an amplifier and timing of antenna selection are accurately adjusted. When adjusting the on/off timing of the amplifier, modulation of a transmit signal is stopped, and a switch is set so as not to select any one of the antennas, thereby totally reflecting the transmit signal; in... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20080030398 - Radar apparatus: A radar apparatus includes an error correction section and a distance calculation section. The error correction section corrects an estimate error of a peak center estimate time which is caused by deviation of an actual peak center generation time in a light receiving signal from sampling of an A/D conversion... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080030399 - Radar device and radar method: A radar device for detecting an object in front of the radar device, has a plurality of antennas, wherein the object is detected based on each reception signal received by two or more of the plurality of antennas, a position specification section for specifying a position of the object by... Agent: Osha Liang L.L.P.

20080030400 - 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 at least one conductive reflector, the method includes... Agent: Lee, Hong, Degerman, Kang & Schmadeka

20080030401 - Radar apparatus: A radar device is realized in which an object and extraneous waves such as radar interference or white noise are distinguished and displayed in different display forms. Subtraction Flag Generator 6 determines the time-wise continuity and the planar consecutiveness of target echo data. The time-wise continuity is an amount that... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080030403 - Electronic device and time adjustment method: An electronic device having a reception unit that receives satellite signals from positioning information satellites orbiting the Earth; a time information generating unit that generates time information; a time correction information storage unit that stores time correction information for correcting the time information; a time correction information generating unit that... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20080030402 - Timepiece: A terminal device includes a plurality of search channel sections which search for a positioning satellite, a candidate reception frequency calculation section which calculates a candidate reception frequency of a first acquisition target satellite by causing the search channel sections to perform the correlation accumulation process for a first accumulation... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20080030404 - Antenna transceiver system: Provided is an antenna transceiver system for transmitting and receiving voice, digital data, radar and IR signals, and for processing received signals for use by an operator. The system includes an antenna array having a plurality of radiating elements, each element connected to a transmit/receive (“T/R”) module. Each T/R module... Agent: Leonard A. Alkov, Esq. Raytheon Company