Communications: directive radio wave systems and devices (e.g., radar, radio navigation) inventions 04/08

20080094273 - Systems and methods for detecting variations in composite structures: A system and method to detect changes in composite structures using RF signal pattern data interpretation. An RF signal is transmitted from a composite material manufactured structure and a plurality of sensors are employed to measure the RF signal. The measured RF signal is compared to a stored baseline RF... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080094274 - Radar: A radar for detecting a target wherein a standard deviation of the amplitude of a beat signal from a transmission signal and a reception signal is determined for a predetermined period. A threshold is determined by adding a predetermined value to the standard deviation or by multiplying the standard deviation... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080094275 - Rf system for tracking objects: A system for tracking an object in space for position, comprises a transponder device connectable to the object. The transponder device has one or several transponder aerial(s) and a transponder circuit connected to the transponder aerial for receiving an RF signal through the transponder aerial. The transponder device adds a... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20080094276 - Method for optimising at least one property of a satellite system, optimisation device for a satellite system, satellite receiver and satellite system: A method for optimising at least one property of a satellite system. The satellite system comprises a satellite provided with a transmitter for transmitting an satellite signal which represents data. The satellite is further provided with a satellite receiver for receiving said satellite signal. The method comprises receiving at said... Agent: Michaelson & Associates

20080094277 - Excess delay estimation using total received power: To determine the position of a mobile device located within a coverage area of a base station, the time of arrival (TOA) of the CDMA signal received by the mobile device from the base station is reduced in proportion to the received power of the CDMA signal. The mobile device... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080094278 - Method and system for distance estimation: A method of estimating distance with reference to a target location and radius is disclosed. The method includes transforming the target location and radius into a degree offset threshold for avoiding unnecessary distance calculation, receiving a set of global positioning coordinates that define a location of a portable global positioning... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP - IBM Rsw

20080094279 - Gps receiver and related method and apparatus: A GPS receiver (10) is disclosed comprising a GPS antenna and a GPS RF front-end including an analogue to digital converter for sampling received GPS signals and a processor for outputting a stream of the GPS signal samples and inserting repeated instances of timing data indicating the timing of the... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080094280 - Altboc receiver: An AltBoc receiver accumulates power measurements over code chip ranges that are associated with time slots that span the code chips. The receiver combines a received signal with code and carrier phase offsets that correspond to the time slots to produce the power measurements, with the code phase offsets determined... Agent: Cesari And Mckenna, LLP

20080094281 - Advanced codebook for multi-antenna transmission systems: Various example embodiments are disclosed including methods, a system, a transmitter apparatus, a receiver apparatus, and computer program products which may provide advanced feedback signaling in a multi-antenna transmission system. In an example embodiment, a codebook may include an indexed set of beamforming elements, and may further include a first... Agent: Brake Hughes Bellermann LLP

20080088498 - Target detecting apparatus using electronically agile radar: A target detecting apparatus mounted on a vehicle has an electronically agile radar detecting a beat signal indicating a difference in frequency between transmission and reception signals and producing a time series of N reception data from the beat signal, a determining unit determining search areas placed at different ranges... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20080088496 - System and method for protecting means of transport from ir-guided missiles: A system for protecting a vehicle against IR-guided missiles, includes at least one missile warning device, and a device for jamming IR-guided missiles. A laser array is coupled to the at least one missile warning devices for jamming the IR-guided missiles.... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080088497 - Radar apparatus: A radar apparatus wherein transmission beams are set such that reception intensities corresponding to the transmission beams are gradually reduced from a center direction toward an edge direction of a scanning-angle range. For example, when a vehicle serving as a target is located in the center direction of a transmission... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080088499 - Methods and apparatus for hyperview automotive radar: Methods and apparatus are presented that reduce the overall system cost for automotive radar sensing applications. In accordance with aspects of the present invention, one way sensor count reduction can be achieved is through the coverage of multiple vehicle sides through a single sensor. One embodiment combines all high-frequency signal... Agent: Barcelo & Harrison, LLP

20080088500 - Radar apparatus: In a radar apparatus, IF beat signals are detected in a first section and a second section serving as two adjacent frequency up-modulation sections of a transmitted wave. Frequency conversions such as FFTs are performed on the IF beat signals so that the frequency spectra are obtained. Subsequently, peak frequencies... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080088501 - Electronic target position control at millimeter wave for hardware-in-the-loop applications: An apparatus for use in controlling a simulated target position in a millimeter wave, hardware-in-the-loop system includes a pair of horns and a conditioning circuit. The conditioning circuit is capable of generating a pair of output millimeter wave signals, each to be broadcast from a respective one of the horns,... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20080088502 - Radar or sensor system with hierarchical architecture and reconfigurable functionality: A method of organizing a radar system or a sensor system with multiple levels of hierarchical constructs for all level of the system. These architectural levels incorporate self-similar organizational structure and represent design strategies that implement data transfer and communication interfaces with both intranet and internet communication network connections.... Agent: Kang Intellectual Property Law, LLC

20080088503 - Frequency modulated continuous wave (fmcw) radar having improved frequency linearity: A frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar is described that comprises a frequency sweep generator (42) for producing a swept frequency signal. A discriminator (52) receives a portion of the swept frequency signal and produces a reference difference-frequency signal. The discriminator 52 comprises an optical delay means, which may comprises... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080088504 - Carrier phase interger ambiguity resolution with multiple reference receivers: A method to determine a relative position between antennae comprising generating phase carrier measurements for a carrier frequency and at least three antennae including a master antenna and other antennae, generating phase integer sets based on the phase carrier measurements, and calculating a relative position between the master antenna and... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080088505 - Method and system for reconstructing time of transmit from assisted or weak signal gps observations: This invention provides methods for a GPS device to resolve timing errors as applicable to a AGPS navigation solution, and, in particular, to solutions involving GNSS positioning and timing with limited assistance such as indoors or in a heavily obscured location, where the time of transmit of satellite signals is... Agent: Gottlieb Rackman & Reisman PC

20080088506 - Global navigation satellite system: Each of a first and a second navigation satellite system (NSS) are adapted to operate according to a first and a second specification, respectively, and each includes a first and a second plurality of space vehicles (SV), respectively. Each of the first and the second plurality of SVs are adapted... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080088507 - Robust low-frequency spread-spectrum navigation system: Methods and apparatus are described for a navigation system. A process includes providing a plurality of transmitters distributed throughout a desired coverage area; locking the plurality of transmitters to a common timing reference; transmitting a signal from each of the plurality of transmitters. An apparatus includes a plurality of transmitters... Agent: John Bruckner PC

20080088508 - Enhanced passive coherent location techniques to track and identify uavs, ucavs, mavs, and other objects: A system and technique is described which has the capability to track and identify, in real time, various aircraft and objects including Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicles (UCAVs), and Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs). The system uses a combination of techniques including conventional automatic dependent surveillance broadcast (ADS-B),... Agent: Robert Platt Bell Registered Patent Attorney

20080084345 - Broadband multi-channel detector with signal and jamming discrimination: Methods of determining whether a jamming signal strength is adequate, comprising receiving a signal, determining first and second noise power levels of the signal in first and second ranges of frequencies, the first range being broader than and encompassing the second range, and calculating a ratio of the second noise... Agent: Burr & Brown

20080084346 - Radar system having a plurality of range measurement zones: One embodiment includes a radar system for range measurement having a first operating mode for measurement in a first range zone and having a second operating mode for measurement in a second range zone. The radar system includes a radio-frequency transmission module, at least one antenna, and a control and... Agent: Dicke, Billig & Czaja

20080084348 - Method of locating a vehicle from satellite data: A method of locating a moving element by determining a reference position and at least one overall protection limit on the basis of data from a group of satellites in a constellation of satellites. The method comprises the steps of selecting from the group of satellites a subgroup comprising at... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080084347 - System and method of communicating position data: Systems, methods and devices for communicating position data are disclosed. A method includes receiving a position query at a communication device. The method also includes determining a position of the communication device in response to the position query. The method also includes transmitting data related to the position from the... Agent: Toler Law Group

20080084349 - Optimized receive antenna and system for precision gps-at-geo navigation: A GPS-at-GEO system is provided that includes a receive antenna design that enables improved tracking of GPS space vehicle side-lobe signals. The receive antenna design is a conical mode helix antenna configured to produce a conical mode radiation pattern, which has zero gain at Nadir and higher gain in the... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080084350 - Transmitting device, receiving device and method for establishing a wireless communication link: The present invention comprises a method for establishing a wireless communication link between a first communication device (1) having a narrow beam antenna (2) adapted to be steered to different positions and a second communication device (10), comprising the steps of transmitting a link request signal from said first communication... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080084351 - Device and method for position measurement by means of linear doppler shifts generated: A position determination method including a step of transmitting a periodic signal having a carrier frequency, a step of sequentially receiving the periodic signal having the carrier frequency at various locations using at least one antenna, and a step of determining a first coordinate of the object location on the... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20080079625 - System and method for stereoscopic anomaly detection using microwave imaging: A microwave imaging system for constructing a stereoscopic microwave image of an object includes an antenna array with a plurality of programmable antenna elements and a processor. Each of the antenna elements is capable of being programmed with a respective first direction coefficient to capture a first microwave image of... Agent: Agilent Technologies, Inc. Legal Department, Dl 429

20080079626 - Methods and apparatus for detecting motion associated with sports equipment.: Embodiments of methods and apparatus for detecting motion associated with sports equipment based on phased array radar are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.... Agent: Karsten Manufacturing Corporation

20080079627 - Auto-correlators with dc and cw cancellation: Embodiments of methods and means for correcting auto-correlated wireless signal samples are provided. Such embodiments include isolating and subtracting an interference vector from auto-correlated signal samples so that a corrected signal sample data set is derived. The corrected signal samples are then used in detecting and identifying symbols within the... Agent: Lee & Hayes, PLLC

20080079628 - Silo contents measurement system: An antenna for a level sensing gauge comprises an environmentally sealed chamber extending from the level sensing gauge and mounting and positionable within the interior of a storage compartment, including a breathable aperture for permitting pressure and humidity equalization between the interior of said chamber and an exterior environment.... Agent: Wood, Herron & Evans, LLP

20080079629 - Obstacle detecting apparatus and method of vehicle: There are provided a radar device that transmits a frequency modulation-continuous wave (FM-CW) and outputs an up-beat frequency and a down-beat frequency, a pairing processing section that conducts pairing of the up-beat frequency and the down-beat frequency at specified sampling intervals, a target-object detecting section that detects target objects around... Agent: Nixon Peabody, LLP

20080079630 - Digital pulse reject counter: A system and method are provided for filtering noise from a pulsed input signal comprising cyclically producing a change in an output signal only if changes in an input signal occur at least a desired time after a respective immediately previous change in the input signal, and otherwise rejecting the... Agent: Rockwell Automation, Inc./(fy)

20080079631 - Method and system for deriving location information from utility lines: Location systems and methods are implemented using a variety of arrangements and methods. Using one such system location information is provided in response to a utility-line arrangement propagating signals that represent a wireless radio-frequency (RF) communication originating from one or more remote transmitters. The system includes a receiver circuit communicatively... Agent: Crawford Maunu PLLC

20080079632 - Directional coupler for balanced signals: A directional coupler, for example a rat-race coupler, for use in radar engineering is disclosed. In one embodiment, the directional coupler includes at least three ports which are electrically connected to one another by a number of line branches, all line branches being constructed as balanced pairs of lines.... Agent: Dicke, Billig & Czaja

20080079633 - System and/or method for reducing ambiguities in received sps signals: The subject matter disclosed herein relates to a system and method for resolving ambiguities associated with signals received from space vehicles (SVs) in a satellite navigation system.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080079634 - Wireless communication device: A wireless communication device which permits reduction in the scale of circuitry as well as in the power consumption. The wireless communication device includes an array of antennas, an adaptive array searcher, and a data demodulator. The adaptive array searcher detects the phase difference between the antennas and estimates the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP