Communications: directive radio wave systems and devices (e.g., radar, radio navigation) inventions 07/08

20080180308 - Radio wave absorber: A radio wave absorber that can be bonded securely to a flexible cable or a flexible printed circuit board eliminates the need for a release film. A radio wave absorber comprising a thermosetting adhesive sheet 1 that is cured into a flexible material, and a Sendust-containing curable resin composition layer... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080180309 - Methods and apparatus for configuring a receiver: Embodiments of the invention relate to configuring a receiver. In some embodiments, when a receiver is executing a dwell, configuration settings for one or more next possible dwells to be executed by the receiver may be sent to the receiver. In this way, when the receiver completes execution of the... Agent: Lockheed Martin Corporation C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080180310 - Panoramic warning system for helicopters: A panoramic warning system for helicopters, for the purpose of detecting obstacles and the proximity of the ground by using a plurality of radar sensors connected to the fuselage structure of the helicopter and which operate on varying wavelengths, the signals of which, representing range information, which are provided with... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20080180311 - Radar device: A data code generator produces a data code, while a reference code generator produces a reference code. The data code is phase-shifted by the data code generator in a predetermined sweep range, according to a sweep command signal given by a phase difference detector. The phase difference detector compares the... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080180312 - Radar: A radar that detects whether spike noise due to an interference with a transmission signal from an object vehicle is superimposed on a beat signal obtained from the transmission signal and a reception signal. When the spike noise is detected, a threshold for extracting a peak from a frequency spectrum... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080180313 - Radar system: Detection of failure mode peculiar to a high-electron mobility transistor is available. A control circuit controls a gate voltage switching portion so that the gate voltage applied to a transistor may become a given checking voltage. The checking voltage may be set to a pinch-off-voltage of the transistor, for example.... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080180314 - Precision rf antenna pointing: A precision antenna pointing system and methods are disclosed. Antenna pointing error is determined by detecting RF signal phases at locations along the edge of an antenna reflector. A set of signal phase reference harnesses are used to compensate for harness induced errors. Furthermore, multiplexing is used to minimize electronics... Agent: Hope Baldauff Hartman, LLC

20080180315 - Methods and systems for position estimation using satellite signals over multiple receive signal instances: Methods and devices are provided for receiving satellite positioning information at least two different instances from at least one satellite during each respective different instance and calculating a position estimate using received information from the at least two different instances. In some embodiments the invention enables estimation of a position... Agent: Ralph A. Dowell Of Dowell & Dowell P.C.

20080180318 - Method and apparatus for reconstructing time of transmit from assisted or weak signal gps type observations: The invention provides a GPS device that resolves timing errors as applicable to an AGPS navigation solution. A single state algorithm provides rapid convergence, typical with standard Newton-Raphson performance. Problems due to ill-conditioning of the input matrix are identified by an augmented DOP calculation procedure, which may be used to... Agent: Gottlieb Rackman & Reisman PC

20080180317 - System for locating the position of an object: This invention relates to a system for locating the position of an object, and in particular relates to a system for a golf course used in locating the position of a golf ball which system includes full motion video and sound capabilities... Agent: Miller Thompson, LLP

20080180320 - Method of downloading ephemeris data based on user activity: Ephemeris data is downloaded intelligently to a GPS-enabled wireless communications device based on user activity rather than at fixed predetermined intervals. Ephemeris data can be downloaded to enable both Aided GPS and Assisted GPS. The device can download ephemeris data based on the frequency of requests into an API communicating... Agent: Ogilvy Renault LLP

20080180319 - Wireless utility asset mapping device and method: A wireless utility asset mapping device comprises a pole, a positioning receiver connected to the pole, a wireless modem connected to the positioning receiver and the pole, and at least one waterproof housing enclosing the positioning receiver and the wireless modem. The wireless modem is a long range wireless modem... Agent: Elliot Furman

20080180316 - Mode determination for mobile gps terminals: The present invention discloses a system for determining the position of a GPS terminal. The system comprises a GPS terminal, a location aiding server, and a communications system. Messages are passed between the GPS terminal and the server, as well as within the GPS terminal, to determine the mode of... Agent: The Eclipse Group

20080180321 - Methods and systems for acquisition, reacquisition and tracking of weak navigational signals: Provided herein are systems and methods for achieving long coherent integration in a navigational receiver to improve the sensitivity of the receiver and enable the receiver to acquire, reacquire and track signals under very weak signal conditions. In an embodiment, phase compensation is computed based on estimated Doppler frequency, rate... Agent: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, LLPIPProsecution Department

20080180322 - Method and system for wireless tracking of utility assets: A system for wirelessly tracking utility assets comprises a remote wireless modem, a remote asset tracking computer in communication with the remote wireless modem, and a wireless utility asset mapping device in wireless long distance communication with the remote wireless modem. A utility asset is located, the wireless utility asset... Agent: Elliot Furman

20080180323 - Method for beam formation by calculation, in particular adapted to the compensation of failures of active modules of a radar with electronic scanning: The invention relates to a method for beam formation by calculation. For each defective active module of rank ip, the missing samples of the microwave signal a(îp) are calculated by one or more non-adaptive interpolations using the samples coming from the active modules in nominal operating mode situated in the... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20080180324 - Phase shifting and combining architecture for phased arrays: Improved phased array techniques and architectures are provided. For example, a linear phased array includes N discrete phase shifters and N−1 variable phase shifters, wherein the N−1 variable phase shifters are respectively coupled between adjacent output nodes of the N discrete phase shifters such that the N discrete phase shifters... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080180325 - Method and apparatus for estimating geolocations: Methods and apparatus operable to estimate the geolocation of a signal emitter. In some embodiments, the methods comprise acquiring collection data from a plurality of collector elements, computing a plurality of candidate geolocations from the acquired collection data, and applying a clustering analysis to the candidate geolocations to estimate the... Agent: Hovey Williams LLP

20080174469 - Method and system for defence against surface-to-air missiles: A method and a system for defense against surface-to-air missiles (Manpads), which represent a threat to military and civil aircraft during takeoff and landing. For missile defense, the missile is jammed by irradiating it with electromagnetic jamming radiation. This jamming radiation may be constituted of continuous-wave irradiation or frequency packets... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, Pc

20080174470 - Transceiver with receive and transmit path performance diversity: Methods and apparatus for implementing a wireless communication transceiver having receive path performance diversity. The transceiver implements a plurality of signal paths that can be configured as space diversity receive paths. Each of the plurality of signal paths includes a distinct RF filter. Each RF filter can be configured to... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080174471 - Uwb signal transmitter for radars and sensors: The present invention relates to a UWB radio transmission module including a UWB signal generation circuit. The UWB signal generation circuit controls the power consumption outputs according to a power supply opening/closing mode, and is connected to a common resonator and a feedback circuit type of UWB signal output device.... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080174476 - Method and device for imaging test objects by means of millimeter waves, in particular for inspecting individuals for suspicious objects: A method for imaging test objects by millimeter waves, especially for checking individuals for suspicious objects is provided, whereby the test object is gradually irradiated with millimeter waves along its circumference and the scattered waves are received and evaluated in order to display an image of the test object. A... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, Pllc

20080174472 - Integrated avionics system: There is provided an avionics system that provides several avionics functions within a single LRU. In one embodiment, the system comprises a software-configurable RF assembly, one or more processor assemblies that are configured to provide multiple TAWS/TCAS/Mode S/ADS-B/ATC functions, interfaces to allow connections to aircraft electronics and data loaders, and... Agent: Squire Sanders & Dempsey LLP

20080174473 - Systems and methods for using a tcas directional antenna for omnidirectional transmission: A method of transmitting from a traffic alert and collision avoidance system (TCAS) directional antenna, the TCAS directional antenna including a plurality of antenna elements connected to an integrated beam forming network, according to various aspects of the present invention comprises: providing a signal to each input of the integrated... Agent: Squire Sanders & Dempsey LLP

20080174474 - Interferometric switched beam radar apparatus and method: An interferometric switched beam radar apparatus and method are disclosed. In one embodiment, a selected antenna of a planar array of beam forming antennas is activated with a substantially continuous frequency modulated transmit signal and a return signal is received from at least two return antennas that have a known... Agent: Utah Valley Patent Services, Llc

20080174475 - Signal processing for accelerating moving targets: A method for performing signal processing for accelerating moving targets, in one implementation, encompasses a method for performing coherent integration of pulses within a CPI for SMTI radar. In an embodiment, the method comprises the steps of determining the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) for each pulse, and multiplying the FFT... Agent: Patti, Hewitt & Arezina Llc

20080174479 - Index value calculation method, satellite signal selection method, satellite appropriateness calculation method, calculation circuit, and positioning device: The vector coordinates of each acquired satellite are calculated, the vector coordinates being given by the coordinates of an end point of a vector of which the direction coincides with the direction (azimuth) of the corresponding acquired satellite based on the present position and the magnitude corresponds to a signal... Agent: Global Ip Counselors, LLP

20080174481 - Satellite-based positioning system improvement: A method, device and system for determining a receiver location using weak signal satellite transmissions. The invention involves a sequence of exchanges between an aiding source and a receiver that serve to provide aiding information to the receiver so that the receiver's location may be determined in the presence of... Agent: Gottlieb Rackman & Reisman Pc

20080174482 - Ionosphere delay measurement using carrier phase: One or more atmospheric propagation effects are estimated by using a phase comparison between and upper sideband and a lower sideband of a modulated signal. In one embodiment, one or more propagation effects are estimated by using a phase comparison between an upper sideband and a lower sideband of a... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20080174483 - Satellite-based positioning system improvement: A method, device and system for determining a receiver location using weak signal satellite transmissions. The invention involves a sequence of exchanges between an aiding source and a receiver that serve to provide aiding information to the receiver so that the receiver's location may be determined in the presence of... Agent: Gottlieb Rackman & Reisman Pc

20080174486 - Intelligent help-requesting apparatus for the gps: The present invention employs speed sensing module for sensing the occurring of the abnormal acceleration and automatically conveying such message to internal process unit of intelligent satellite positioning apparatus, said process unit also simultaneously receiving the positioning signal from satellite positioning receiving module and transmitting it to the server of... Agent: Troxell Law Office Pllc

20080174484 - Location recording system: The present invention discloses a communication system and method for determining and recording the geographical location of an object attached with a short range wireless device, over a wide area, in a vicinity of a radio beacon that can be located by a remote control station, upon establishing or interrupting... Agent: Daniel Katz

20080174485 - Tracking system and method with asset tool bar for polling, message, historic report, location, map and geo fence features: The tracking system monitors many trackable devices each transmitting geographic locus, device id and event data via GPS, GPRS or GSM communications channels. The system is typically an ASP model and presents a dynamic display of the tracking device data (data such as, tracked asset, driver, load condition, speed, direction,... Agent: Robert C. Kain, Jr.

20080174480 - Information processing terminal and computer program: The present invention provides an information processing terminal, comprising a request reception unit that receives a function request, GPS signals reception unit that receives a GPS signal, a current position measuring unit that determines the latitude and longitude of the current position of the information processing terminal based upon the... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug LLP

20080174478 - Waterproof combined global positioning receiver and two-way radio and method of waterproof enclosure fabrication: A combined global positioning system receiver and two-way radio communications unit (GPS/radio unit) that is configured for wirelessly communicating with one or more other such units and that includes a substantially waterproof enclosure for protection of the electronic components contained therein is provided. The substantially waterproof enclosure includes first and... Agent: Garmin Ltd. C/o Garmin International, Inc.

20080174477 - Wireless communication device and method for reducing interference in a receiver: Embodiments of a wireless communication device and a method for reducing in-band interference in a positioning system receiver are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. In some embodiments, an adaptive filter may be used to measure interference from signals generated from coupled signals of a co-located... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner / Infineon

20080174487 - Method and system for demodulation of open-loop gps radio occultation signals: Methods and systems for demodulation of open-loop GPS radio occultation signals are provided. An occulted GPS radio signal where the atmosphere-induced modulation on the phase is up to 180 degrees may be recorded by a radio occultation receiver. The radio signal may be concurrently received by a second receiver where... Agent: Marsh, Fischmann & Breyfogle LLP

20080174488 - Passive tracking antenna system: The present invention involves a tracking antenna system with no moving parts that extends the range of wireless mobile links 16 to 256 times the range of regular omni-directional whip antennas. The antenna system comprises an array of antenna segments arranged in a sphere or circle, or other suitable geometry.... Agent: Richard D. Clarke Law Office Of Richard D. Clarke

20080174490 - Structured array geolocation: Methods and systems for providing an improved geolocation of a plurality of transmitters are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for providing a geolocation of a plurality of transmitters includes determining a relative location of each transmitter in the plurality of transmitters with respect to at least one other transmitter... Agent: Lee & Hayes, Pllc

20080174491 - System and method for providing mobility event triggered service of target set and target set: A system and a method for providing a mobility event triggered service of a target set and the target set are provided. When a mobility triggered service is started, a target set stores a unique identifier related to an area where the target set itself is currently located, and compares... Agent: Jefferson Ip Law, LLP

20080174492 - Position information detection system and position information detection method: An object of the present invention is to achieve a position information detection system with high precision when an obstruction and a reflective object exist. A position information detection system includes a reader/writer whose position is known, a first RF chip whose position is known, and a second RF chip... Agent: Eric Robinson

20080169958 - Localized jamming of navigation signals: Various approaches to localized jamming of navigation signals are provided. In one embodiment, a navigation signal comprises at least a portion of a low earth orbit (LEO) signal provided by a LEO satellite. A noise source is filtered to provide a plurality of filtered noise signals in a plurality of... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid, LLP

20080169959 - System and method for detecting emitters signals having multi-valued illumination times: 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. When detecting emitter signals of a particular emitter, the receiver may periodically revisit the portion of the frequency spectrum in which that emitter operates. The... Agent: Lockheed Martin Corporation C/o Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080169975 - Process for generating spatially continuous wind profiles from wind profiler measurements: A neural network process for improving wind retrievals from wind profiler measurements is described. In this invention, a neural network is trained to retrieve missing or incomplete upper level winds from ground based wind profiler measurements. Radiosonde measurements in conjunction with wind profiler ground measurements for specific geographical locations are... Agent: Young Paul Yee

20080169961 - Computerized tomography using radar: Techniques for detecting contraband are described, as are techniques for generating an image of living tissue. A location of interest relative to a target space is received, and a radar signal is transmitted in the direction of the location of interest. Portions of the radar signal are detected with multiple... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080169960 - Handheld system for radar detection: The present invention is a radar platform that detects intruders and wirelessly reports to a key-fob. The entire radar platform is water-resistant and two banks of batteries are included for convenience or extended operation time. The device consists of a MicroPower Radar (MPR), a data acquisition (DAQ) element and a... Agent: White-welker & Welker, LLC

20080169962 - Collision alerting and avoidance system: A collision alerting and avoidance system for use in an aerial vehicle is presented herein. The system comprises a one low profile antenna array disposed on the aerial vehicle. A transmitter/receiver probe is coupled to the antenna array. The transmitter/receiver probe is configured to transmit electromagnetic waves and to receive... Agent: Tobin, Carberry, O'malley, Riley, Selinger, P.C.

20080169963 - Radar system with agile beam steering deflector: A radar system including a base unit and one or more radar sensors. The radar sensor is capable of steering a beam in a scanning or tracking manner in both azimuth and elevation. Automated and independent control in azimuth and elevation may be achieved based on configuration settings in the... Agent: Orion Law Group

20080169964 - Systems and methods for a terrain contour matching navigation system: Systems and methods for terrain contour matching navigation are provided. In one embodiment, a method for terrain contour matching navigation comprises: receiving at least one sample point representing the position of an aircraft, the at least one sample point including a horizontal position and an altitude sample; correlating a first... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080169965 - Driver assistance system: Driver assistance system of a land or water vehicle that encompasses a long-range radar apparatus for the detection of distant objects and at least one short-range detection apparatus for the detection of objects in the vehicle's close proximity. The system further includes an operation control apparatus for control of operation... Agent: Eschweiler & Associates LLC

20080169966 - On-vehicle radar device: An on-vehicle radar device has a transmission section for transmitting a radio wave to an object, a receive section for receiving the radio wave reflected by the object, and a processing section for dividing an object detection range into three or more of a plurality of areas, setting a threshold... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080169967 - Methods and apparatus for providing target altitude estimation in a two dimensional radar system: Method and apparatus to track a contact using a sensor in a two-dimensional radar system, determine a closest point of approach (CPA) for the contact, determine a time to closest point of approach (TCPA) for the contact, and estimate an altitude for the contact from the closest point of approach... Agent: Raytheon Company C/o Daly, Crowley, Mofford & Durkee, LLP

20080169968 - Management of tracking models: The present invention relates to methods and apparatus for tracking moving objects, such as ballistic missiles and aircraft, on the basis of discrete sensor measurements, such as radar reports and reports from optical sensors. In particular, but not exclusively, the invention is useful for the simultaneous tracking of multiple, fast... Agent: Barry W. Chapin, Esq. Chapin Intellectual Property Law, LLC

20080169969 - Radar device: A radar device has a wave projecting part for projecting pulsed electromagnetic waves to a target object in a specified direction at specified time intervals, a wave receiving part for receiving reflected waves reflected by the target object, an intensity measuring part for measuring the intensity of the reflected waves,... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080169970 - Multi-platform configurable radar device for velocity monitoring of traffic and other moving targets: A Doppler shifted radar apparatus is disclosed for correct target identification with respect to surveillance of moving vehicles. More particularly, an improved system is disclosed that is fully programmable and configurable to a specific customer use such as a speed signal. One such configurable item is the output communications protocol.... Agent: Patent Law Offices Of Rick Martin, PC

20080169971 - Simultaneous savings in bandwidth and energy using waveform design in presence of interference and noise: A new method for transmitter-receiver design that enhances the desired signal output from the receiver while minimizing the total interference and noise output from the receiver at the decision making instant is presented here. Further the new design scheme proposed here can be used for simultaneous savings of transmit signal... Agent: Walter J. Tencza Jr.

20080169972 - Methods and systems for piecewise curve fitting or radar altimeter range gate data: A method for compensating for range gate slide with respect to received returns within a radar altimeter is described. The method includes adjusting the amount of overlap between a range gate pulse and a radar return signal until an altitude output by the radar altimeter is within a desired tolerance,... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080169973 - Antenna with compact lru array: An element support and thermal control arrangement for an active array antenna, preferably modular, using line-replaceable units (LRUs), includes a radiating-side liquid-cooled cold plate lying parallel with a liquid-cooled TR coldplate. Antenna elements are supported and cooled by the radiating cold plate, and a beamformer lies between the radiating and... Agent: Duane Morris LLP

20080169974 - Radar system: A radar system configured to present plural echo signals in a mixed form includes an image mixer for determining display colors for individual radar image regions based on combinations of the levels of the echo signals obtained from the same locations. The image mixer classifies the combinations of the levels... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20080169976 - Positioning apparatus, control method of positioning apparatus, control program for positioning apparatus, and computer-readable recording medium having control program for positioning apparatus recorded therein: A positioning apparatus that measures a current position by using measurement basis codes carried on satellite waves from a plurality of positioning satellites includes: a first phase error information generating unit that generates first phase error information indicating an error of a first phase on the basis of a frequency... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20080169977 - Apparatus and methods for acquiring gps data for use with portable data terminals: A data collection system including a portable data terminal and a base for receiving the portable data terminal. The portable data terminal having a first interface for receiving power and a second interface for connecting to a communication link. The base having a housing adapted to receive and support the... Agent: Hand Held Products, Inc.

20080169978 - Detection of deception signal used to deceive geolocation receiver of a satellite navigation system: A method for detecting the presence of a deception signal associated with a satellite navigation system. The deception signal has certain “observables”, which can be used by a GPS receiver to detect the presence of the deception signal.... Agent: Baker Botts L.L.P. Patent Department

20080169979 - Method and apparatus for managing time in a satellite positioning system: A method, apparatus and system for time management in a position-location system is described. The method may include (i) obtaining, at a global-navigation-satellite-system receiver while being served by a first node of a wireless network a first time base, a relative-time difference, and a third time base; and forming a... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080169980 - Method and system for data detection in a global positioning system satellite receiver: A data detection circuit within a global positioning system (GPS) satellite receiver operates to detect and decode data sent in a spread spectrum signal. The data detection circuit receives input from a radio receiver, the information containing data from a plurality of satellites. The data is supplied to a circular... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080165046 - System and method for intrusion detection using a time domain radar array: A system and method for highly selective intrusion detection using a sparse array of ultra wideband (UWB) radars. Two or more UWB radars are arranged in a sparse array around an area to be protected. Each UWB radar transmits ultra wideband pulses that illuminate the area to be protected. Signal... Agent: Venable LLP

20080165051 - Systems and methods for presenting vertical weather information on plan view displays: Systems and methods for presenting vertical weather information on plan view displays. An example method retrieves weather radar return information stored in a volumetric buffer and determines if a weather anomaly of the retrieved weather radar return information is above or below a predefined threshold from a present flight altitude... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services Ab-2b

20080165052 - Simultaneous dual polarization radar system with pedestal mounted receiver: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for simultaneous transmission of horizontal (H) and vertical (V) channels in a dual polarized weather radar. The goal of the invention is accomplished by placing the receiver, duplexer and polarizer equipment above the azimuth rotary joint but below elevation rotary joints.... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080165047 - Systems and methods of tracking and/or avoiding harm to certain devices or humans: The present invention relates to systems and methods of tracking and/or avoiding harm to certain devices or humans. According to one exemplary embodiment, a method of tracking individual assets may include obtaining position data of an asset via a GPS receiver in communication with a position sensor associated with the... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP

20080165048 - Passive radar utilizing space-borne digital electromagnetic illuminators: In a passive radar system a space-borne transmitter broadcasts wide-band digitally modulated signals over a region and illuminates the region. A receiver antenna is oriented to receive radiation from at least one portion of the region. The portion is an area viewed by the receiver antenna. A reference antenna is... Agent: Dan Shklarsky Avia Kafri

20080165049 - Radar device: To provide a radar device that is capable of performing both of long-distance detection performance and short-distance wide-angle monitor in a DBF system radar, there is provided a radar device of a digital beam forming system that radiates waves toward a space, receives a reflected wave that is reflected by... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080165050 - Near field electromagnetic positioning calibration system and method: A system and method for electromagnetic position determination utilizing a calibration process. For calibration, a transmitter is positioned at multiple locations in an area of interest and multiple receivers receive and record signal characteristics from the transmitter to generate a calibration data set. The unknown position of a transmitter may... Agent: James Richards

20080165053 - Fast decimeter-level gnss positioning: Methods and apparatus for processing of data from GNSS receivers are presented. A post-processing engine and a post-processed accuracy predictor are described. The post-processing engine provides high accuracy GNSS (GPS) position determination with short occupation time for GIS applications. The post-processed accuracy predictor calculates during data collection an estimate of... Agent: Bruce D. Riter

20080165055 - Gnss signal processing with frequency-dependent bias modeling: Three new methods are presented to improve floating solutions and ambiguity resolution for multiple global satellite navigation systems (GNSS), one of which may be an FDMA-based GNSS such as GLONASS: (1) modeling of the hardware-related differential clock error between two (or more) different GNSS, (2) modeling the frequency-dependent biases present... Agent: Bruce D. Riter

20080165054 - Gnss signal processing with partial fixing of algorithms: Three new methods are presented to improve floating solutions and ambiguity resolution for multiple global satellite navigation systems (GNSS), one of which may be an FDMA-based GNSS such as GLONASS: (1) modeling of the hardware-related differential clock error between two (or more) different GNSS, (2) modeling the frequency-dependent biases present... Agent: Bruce D. Riter

20080165056 - Modular tracking device: A tracking device and system is configured to be modular in nature and to include an interchangeable ICC (integrated circuit card) and an interchangeable power supply. The tracking device is customized for the particular application, and may be disposable. It contains componentry for determining its own location and for transmitting... Agent: Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP

20080165057 - Method and apparatus for collecting subframes of satellite navigation data: A method and apparatus for collecting subframes of navigation data of satellites are disclosed. In the method of the present invention, the subframe is divided into several sub-units, each sub-units includes one or more words. When a receiver receives a subframe with a subframe ID, the respective required sub-units of... Agent: Madson & Austin

20080165058 - Spatially locating radio tags for on demand systems: An embodiment of the invention is a method of accurately determining the spatial location of an RFID tag in two-dimensions or three-dimensions. The method utilizes a plurality of RFID readers to make a plurality of distance, direction, and or time-of-flight determinations. Such determinations are made by sending a request signal... Agent: Cantor Colburn LLP-ibm Yorktown

20080165059 - System and method for locating objects and communicating with the same: Communication between a remote locator and a transponder is used to determine the relative position of the transponder. The transponder and locator each include a transmitter and a receiver. The locator transmits an inquiry in the form of a relatively powerful cyclically encoded signal with repetitive elements, uniquely associated with... Agent: Alfred E. Mann Foundation For Scientific Research

20080165060 - Method and system for inferring a location of a mobile computing device: A computer-based method for inferring a location of a mobile computing device comprises the steps of using the mobile computing device to receive data about one or more devices present in a first location at a first time, including those devices available for connection; assigning an identification code to each... Agent: Stites & Harbison, PLLC

20080158048 - Systems and methods for displaying hazards: A system, according to various aspects of the present invention, provides a presentation to a hazard display. The system includes a memory having surveillance data and a processor. The processor updates an image in accordance with the surveillance data to provide an updated image. The processor also prepares a presentation... Agent: Squire Sanders & Dempsey LLP

20080158049 - Method for digital transmission and display of weather imagery: A method for creating minimal data representing a source image is presented. The source image is divided into a grid of cells. A color is selected for each cell corner based on sampling an area defined by the cell corner. An indication of the selected color is stored in an... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.c.

20080158040 - Systems and methods employing active tcas to enhance situational awareness: A method according to the present invention includes transmitting a Mode S interrogation and receiving a response from an aircraft that has received the Mode S interrogation. A range to the aircraft is determined based on a time period between transmitting the Mode S interrogation and receiving the response. The... Agent: Squire Sanders & Dempsey LLP

20080158041 - Airport surface detector and control system: An airport surface detector and control system to detect aircraft, vehicles, and other objects moving on concerned pathways of the airport, including at least a Central Processing Unit and Central Surveillance/Control Unit. The system comprises at least a laser-scanning head at the entry of the pathways, and able to cooperate... Agent: St. Onge Steward Johnston & Reens, Llc

20080158044 - Combination laser system and global navigation satellite system: A combination laser system and global navigation satellite system has a laser detector positioned in a known and fixed relationship with the nominal phase center of an included global navigation satellite antenna. The outputs of the laser system and the global navigation satellite system are used together to determine position.... Agent: Dinsmore & Shohl LLP One Dayton Centre

20080158042 - Radar device: A radar device has a light projecting circuit for projecting light to an object. Reflected light from the object is received by a first light receiving circuit and a second light receiving circuit and converted into signals. The first and second light receiving circuits each have an activity range in... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080158043 - Radar device: A radar device includes a light projecting part for projecting light to an object, first and second light receiving elements each for outputting a signal according to the quantity of received light flux, and an optical system having a first optical path and a second optical path for guiding reflected... Agent: Beyer Weaver LLP

20080158045 - Vehicular lamp: A vehicular lamp 1 including a lamp unit 13 provided inside a lamp chamber 7 so that the optical axis direction of lamp unit 13 is adjustable with the use of a tilting movement adjustment mechanism 15. The lamp chamber 7 is formed by a lamp body 3 and a... Agent: Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges, LLP Koda/androlia

20080158046 - Radar device: Provided is a radar device includes a transmitting unit, a receiving unit for receiving the electromagnetic wave reflected by a target object of the transmission electromagnetic wave, a target object measuring unit for measuring at least a distance between the radar device and the target object on the basis of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080158047 - Dvor apparatus and sideband antenna fault detecting method: According to one embodiment, a DVOR apparatus includes a main device outputting a radio frequency (RF) signal, a distributor distributing the RF signal output from a main device into a plurality of systems, and sideband antennas radiating the RF signal, wherein, the main device includes a RF signal output unit... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.c.

20080158050 - Method for acquisition of gps signals and gps receiver with sample time error and frequency offset compensation: Embodiments of a method for acquisition of GPS signals and a GPS receiver with sample time error and frequency offset compensation are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. In some embodiments, GPS signals are resampled at a plurality of sample rates for each of a plurality... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.a.

20080158051 - Method for determining a change in a communication signal and using this information to improve sps signal reception and processing: Methods and apparatuses for determining a position of a mobile satellite positioning system (SPS) receiver which is coupled to a communication receiver or transceiver. In one exemplary method, a change in a communication signal received by the communication receiver is determined. A parameter, based on the change, is determined, and... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080158052 - Positioning apparatus and method: A positioning apparatus is disclosed, which comprises: a position detection module, including an inertial sensor, a magnetometer, and a global positioning device, being used for detection a movement of an object and thus generating a positioning signal accordingly; wherein the positioning signal is transmitted to a control unit and then... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20080158053 - Gps position measuring device: A GPS position-measuring device includes a altitude-information memory for storing altitude information of a moving object, a combination determining unit for determining GPS-satellite combinations from GPS satellites that can be tracked, a position measuring unit for measuring a GPS based or GPS derived three-dimensional position of the moving object for... Agent: Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione

20080158054 - Array antenna system: An array antenna system is provided. The array antenna system includes a plurality of antenna elements which are arranged at intervals in rows and in columns; and a control means which selectively operates at least two antenna elements of the plurality of the antenna elements according to a direction of... Agent: Sughrue Mion, Pllc

20080158055 - Directive spatial interference beam control: The invention, in its various aspects and embodiments, comprises a variety methods and apparatuses. The methods variously determine the delay (or phase shift) in each element of a phased array to simultaneously form, steer and/or combine a set of beam shapes. The apparatuses include apparatuses that implement the methods as... Agent: Williams, Morgan & Amerson

20080158057 - Method for creating beamformed multiple-input-multiple-output channels with partial nulling: The present invention discloses a method for generating beamformed multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) channels. The method comprises receiving by a base station (BS) a first plurality of receiving signals transmitted from a first antenna on a mobile station (MS), receiving by the BS a second plurality of receiving signals transmitted from a... Agent: L. Howard Chen Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis, LLP

20080158056 - Radar apparatus: A radar apparatus is provided which includes a plurality of antennas arranged at unequally spaced intervals in a single row, the plurality of antennas configured to transmit a radio wave as transmitting antennas during continued multiple periods, and receive a reflected radio wave as receiving antennas during the continued multiple... Agent: Fogg & Powers Llc

20080158058 - Multipath resolving correlation interferometer direction finding: Apparatus and a method utilizing correlation interferometer direction finding for determining the azimuth and elevation to an aircraft at long range and flying at low altitudes above water with a transmitting radar while resolving multipath signals. The signals from the radar are received both directly and reflected from the surface... Agent: Bae Systems

20080158059 - Portable, iterative geolocation of rf emitters: Iterative geolocation of a stationary RF emitter through the use of TDOA may include the use of a single portable geolocation (e.g., TDOA) sensor, a pair of portable geolocation sensors and three of more portable geolocation sensors. Adding portable geolocation sensors to the iterative process reduces the constraints on the... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP

20080158060 - Apparatus and method for locating a terminal in a broadband wireless communication system: An apparatus and method for locating a terminal in a broadband wireless communication system are provided. The apparatus for locating the terminal includes a candidate region determiner, a virtual location determiner, and a final location determiner. The candidate region determiner determines a candidate region of the terminal by using tag... Agent: Jefferson Ip Law, LLP

20080158061 - Method of detection in bistatic mode using non-cooperative passive radio transmissions: The invention relates to the field of electromagnetic detection systems operating in bistatic mode, in particular to UHF/VHF bistatic radars. The method according to the invention consists in the simultaneous use of signals transmitted by one or more transmitting sources on separate frequency channels. The method includes a step of... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20080158062 - Method and system for extensible position location: A method and system for extensible positioning that uses a primary reference node at a known first position and a secondary reference node at a second position, where a range is measured between the secondary reference node and the primary reference node. The second position is determined based upon the... Agent: Venable LLP