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Communications: directive radio wave systems and devices (e.g., radar, radio navigation) October patent listing 10/08

20080258960 - System and method for harvesting business intelligence from maritime communicaitons: A system for harvesting business intelligence from maritime communications uses AIS signals as the source of information regarding the position and heading of vessels. The system builds and maintains a data base of location information of vessels within one or more defined geographic areas over time. The system further includes... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20080258961 - In-vehicle radar system: An in-vehicle radar system, which transmits an electric wave toward a target object and measures the distance between a subject vehicle and the target object, based on the electric wave that has been reflected by the target object and is received by the in-vehicle radar system, includes subject vehicle-speed determination... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080258962 - Radar apparatus: A radar apparatus includes a sending unit for sending a transmission wave, a plurality of receiving parts for receiving a reflected wave from a reflecting object in a parallel manner, beat signal generation parts for acquiring beat signals at the receiving parts, respectively, from the transmission wave and the wave... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080258963 - Compass aided direction finding for first responders: A direction finding system used with an exit having a transmitter at that exit sending a location beam having a direction with respect to a compass direction. A receiver is carried by a person seeking directional guidance to the exit. The receiver receives the beam and determines the direction of... Agent: Bryan Anderson Patent Services

20080258964 - Radar system: In a radar system, a switcher is provided for switching over between at least two different directional characteristics, in particular for different distance ranges, of at least two transmitting antennas. On the receiving side, a combined evaluation of the digitized signals of at least two receiving antennas is performed, in... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080258966 - Independent positioning device and independent positioning method:

20080258967 - Method and system for upgrading a legacy cellular device: Embodiments of the present invention recite a method and system for upgrading a legacy cellular device. In one embodiment, a GIS data collector application for enabling a cellular telephone to perform GIS data collector functions is installed upon a cellular telephone which is not originally intended to be used as... Agent: Trimble Navigation Limited C/o Wagner Blecher

20080258968 - Salvage system for life jacket: The present invention relates to a salvage system for a life jacket capable of enabling quick rescue of a victim by quickly finding a victim wearing the life jacket using an artificial satellite and displaying an electronic map provided with the position of the victim and the image of the... Agent: Schmeiser Olsen & Watts

20080258965 - System and method for providing aiding information to a satellite positioning system receiver over short-range wireless connections: Systems and methods for obtaining corrected time information in a GPS enabled device connected to a mobile handset via a short-range wireless network, such as a Bluetooth Piconet. The mobile handset includes a GPS time and a network clock synchronized with a network clock in a short-range wireless network interface... Agent: The Eclipse Group LLP

20080258969 - System and method for compensating for temperature effects on gps transponders: A GPS transponder system incorporating a phase error monitoring and compensation subsystem. The phase error monitoring and compensation subsystem includes a demodulator subsystem that demodulates modulated carrier signals being output from each one of a pair of GPS transponders to obtain the navigation codes being generated by each of the... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, PLC

20080258970 - Method and transit time tester for monitoring the transit time of small-sized goods to be conveyed, particularly of letters and similar mail items: Disclosed is a method and a transit time tester for monitoring the transit time of an item to be conveyed, particularly a mail consignment, wherein the movements of a consignment are registered and stored in a transit time tester for later evaluation of the sequence of transportation. The transit time... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080258971 - Method and system for controlling the direction of an antenna beam: In one embodiment, a system for controlling the direction of an antenna beam includes a location identifier, an orientation sensor, and an antenna beam controller. The location identifier determines a transmit antenna location indicating the location of a transmit antenna, where the transmit antenna produces an antenna beam. The orientation... Agent: Baker Botts LLP

20080258972 - Antenna system: Disclosed is an antenna system, including: an antenna which can switch directivity thereof when receiving an analog television broadcasting signal; a switching section to switch the directivity of the antenna; a measurement section to measure radio wave quality of the analog television broadcasting signal received by the antenna by analyzing... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080258973 - Ranging signals methods and systems: A system and method for estimating the range between two devices performs two or more ranging estimates with subsequent estimates performed using a clock that is offset in phase with respect to a prior estimate. The subsequent estimate allows estimate uncertainties due to a finite clock resolution to be reduced... Agent: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

20080258974 - Systems and methods for geographic positioning using radio spectrum signatures: Methods, radios, components thereof, and other devices for localizing a geographic position of a radio receiver are provided. A current radio signature is obtained. The current radio signature comprises a plurality of measured signal qualities that collectively represent a frequency spectrum. Each measured signal quality in the plurality of measured... Agent: Jones Day

20080258960 - System and method for harvesting business intelligence from maritime communicaitons: A system for harvesting business intelligence from maritime communications uses AIS signals as the source of information regarding the position and heading of vessels. The system builds and maintains a data base of location information of vessels within one or more defined geographic areas over time. The system further includes... Agent: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

20080258961 - In-vehicle radar system: An in-vehicle radar system, which transmits an electric wave toward a target object and measures the distance between a subject vehicle and the target object, based on the electric wave that has been reflected by the target object and is received by the in-vehicle radar system, includes subject vehicle-speed determination... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080258962 - Radar apparatus: A radar apparatus includes a sending unit for sending a transmission wave, a plurality of receiving parts for receiving a reflected wave from a reflecting object in a parallel manner, beat signal generation parts for acquiring beat signals at the receiving parts, respectively, from the transmission wave and the wave... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080258963 - Compass aided direction finding for first responders: A direction finding system used with an exit having a transmitter at that exit sending a location beam having a direction with respect to a compass direction. A receiver is carried by a person seeking directional guidance to the exit. The receiver receives the beam and determines the direction of... Agent: Bryan Anderson Patent Services

20080258964 - Radar system: In a radar system, a switcher is provided for switching over between at least two different directional characteristics, in particular for different distance ranges, of at least two transmitting antennas. On the receiving side, a combined evaluation of the digitized signals of at least two receiving antennas is performed, in... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080258966 - Independent positioning device and independent positioning method:

20080258967 - Method and system for upgrading a legacy cellular device: Embodiments of the present invention recite a method and system for upgrading a legacy cellular device. In one embodiment, a GIS data collector application for enabling a cellular telephone to perform GIS data collector functions is installed upon a cellular telephone which is not originally intended to be used as... Agent: Trimble Navigation Limited C/o Wagner Blecher

20080258968 - Salvage system for life jacket: The present invention relates to a salvage system for a life jacket capable of enabling quick rescue of a victim by quickly finding a victim wearing the life jacket using an artificial satellite and displaying an electronic map provided with the position of the victim and the image of the... Agent: Schmeiser Olsen & Watts

20080258965 - System and method for providing aiding information to a satellite positioning system receiver over short-range wireless connections: Systems and methods for obtaining corrected time information in a GPS enabled device connected to a mobile handset via a short-range wireless network, such as a Bluetooth Piconet. The mobile handset includes a GPS time and a network clock synchronized with a network clock in a short-range wireless network interface... Agent: The Eclipse Group LLP

20080258969 - System and method for compensating for temperature effects on gps transponders: A GPS transponder system incorporating a phase error monitoring and compensation subsystem. The phase error monitoring and compensation subsystem includes a demodulator subsystem that demodulates modulated carrier signals being output from each one of a pair of GPS transponders to obtain the navigation codes being generated by each of the... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, PLC

20080258970 - Method and transit time tester for monitoring the transit time of small-sized goods to be conveyed, particularly of letters and similar mail items: Disclosed is a method and a transit time tester for monitoring the transit time of an item to be conveyed, particularly a mail consignment, wherein the movements of a consignment are registered and stored in a transit time tester for later evaluation of the sequence of transportation. The transit time... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20080258971 - Method and system for controlling the direction of an antenna beam: In one embodiment, a system for controlling the direction of an antenna beam includes a location identifier, an orientation sensor, and an antenna beam controller. The location identifier determines a transmit antenna location indicating the location of a transmit antenna, where the transmit antenna produces an antenna beam. The orientation... Agent: Baker Botts LLP

20080258972 - Antenna system: Disclosed is an antenna system, including: an antenna which can switch directivity thereof when receiving an analog television broadcasting signal; a switching section to switch the directivity of the antenna; a measurement section to measure radio wave quality of the analog television broadcasting signal received by the antenna by analyzing... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20080258973 - Ranging signals methods and systems: A system and method for estimating the range between two devices performs two or more ranging estimates with subsequent estimates performed using a clock that is offset in phase with respect to a prior estimate. The subsequent estimate allows estimate uncertainties due to a finite clock resolution to be reduced... Agent: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

20080258974 - Systems and methods for geographic positioning using radio spectrum signatures: Methods, radios, components thereof, and other devices for localizing a geographic position of a radio receiver are provided. A current radio signature is obtained. The current radio signature comprises a plurality of measured signal qualities that collectively represent a frequency spectrum. Each measured signal quality in the plurality of measured... Agent: Jones Day

20080252511 - Method for automatically selecting radionavigation beacons: The field of the invention is that of navigation systems serving aboard an aircraft, to determine the position of the aircraft on the basis of measurements of distance separating the aircraft from radionavigation beacons delivered by equipment of the DME type (Distance Measuring Equipment). It relates to a method for... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20080252512 - Method, a program and a module to estimate a doppler maximum frequency and an oscillator frequency offset, receiver including the module: Abstract: A method of estimating a Doppler maximum frequency fd and/or a local oscillator frequency offset f0, the method comprising the steps of: computing a power density spectrum of a received radio signal over a whole frequency range, scanning the computed power density spectrum to determine a frequency sub-range [fmin;... Agent: Nxp, B.v. Nxp Intellectual Property Department

20080252513 - Radar system: The radar system includes: a transmission circuit transmitting the radar waves via a transmission antenna; a receiving circuit receiving the reflected waves via a receiving antenna; a delay line having an end connected to aid transmission circuit and the other end connected to said receiving circuit, which delays the radar... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080252514 - Device for semi-transparent multiplexing of data stream for a communicaton satellite: A device (D) is dedicated to data stream processing within a communication satellite of a communication network. This device (D) comprises processing means (MT) whose job is, in the event of receipt of a first incoming data stream whose carrier exhibits a first modulation and comprising at chosen locations chosen... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20080252516 - Determining a geolocation solution of an emitter on earth using satellite signals: Embodiments provide systems and methods for determining the geolocation of an emitter on earth. A solution is obtained from two TDOA measurements that need not be acquired at the same time. A solution is obtained from a TDOA measurement and an FDOA measurement that need not be acquired at the... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20080252515 - System for monitoring railroad cars: A system for monitoring railroad cars comprising a hatch cover assembly including a cover body, a sensor, a wireless transmitter for transmitting data received from the sensor, a wireless receiver for receiving the data from the wireless transmitter, and a satellite transmitter for transmitting the data to a satellite. The... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd. (rockford Office)

20080252518 - Method and apparatus for determining location using a hybrid solution: A method and device for location determination includes receiving at least one signal from a first transmitter and receiving at least one signal from a second signal transmitter. The first transmitter transmits a first type of signal and the second transmitter transmits a second type of signal different from the... Agent: Mcguirewoods, LLP

20080252519 - Fast position fixing method for gps navigator: A fast position fixing method for a Global Positioning System (GPS) navigator includes receiving, at an assistant device, GPS data from GPS satellites in response to a GPS data reception command, and transmitting the GPS data to the navigator, locating, at the navigator, the GPS satellites on the basis of... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080252517 - Method and apparatus for locating position of a gps device: A method and apparatus for locating position of a GPS device is described. In one example, a method for provisioning a mobile device with a model for determining a position of the mobile device in at least one geographic area is provided. The method includes obtaining an estimate of the... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080252520 - Positioning device, electronic instrument, and storage medium storing program: A slice set for a specific period of time is acquired from a storage area of a memory which is a ring buffer while changing the read position, and the signal strength total value of each slice set is calculated. The signal strengths of the slices included in the maximum... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20080252522 - Array antenna and a method of determining an antenna beam attribute: A method of determining one or more attribute of an antenna beam based on measuring phase and/or amplitude differences at different points in a feed network. By using lookup tables based on actual measurements of antenna beam attributes for phase and/or amplitude differences at different points in a feed network... Agent: Welsh & Katz - Commscope, Inc.

20080252521 - Vertically integrated transceiver array: A transceiver array that employs vertically integrated circuits in one or more wafers. The array includes a digital wafer having digital circuits. A plurality of RF cubes are formed to the digital wafer, where each RF cube includes an antenna wafer and at least one lower wafer, and where each... Agent: MillerIPGroup, PLC Emag Technologies, Inc.

20080252523 - Antenna apparatus capable of directivity control: The antenna apparatus includes first to fourth antenna elements successively arranged at regular angular intervals around the central point on the same plane and respectively having first to fourth feed points, and a phase shifter delaying the phase of the received electric wave approximately by 90 degrees. The unidirectivity of... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080252524 - Path-sharing transceiver architecture for antenna arrays: A path sharing transceiver array architecture is disclosed. A plurality of channels are linked to antennas of an array for transmitting and receiving wireless signals that are offset in one of phase or time relative to one another. Each channel is associated with a delay element. In the receiving case,... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20080252525 - Determining a geolocation solution of an emitter on earth based on weighted least-squares estimation: Embodiments provide systems and methods for determining the geolocation of an emitter on earth based on weighted least-squares estimation based on two TDOA and two FDOA measurements, none of which need to be acquired at the same time. The four TDOA and FDOA measurements and the errors in each of... Agent: Fenwick & West LLP

20080252526 - Multiparametric direction finding method comprising the separation of the incidence and nuisance parameters: Method of multi-parameter direction finding of several sources in an array of N sensors, comprising at least the following steps: a) choosing a parameter to be determined, or parameter of interest, b) expressing the direction vector in the form of a linear relation between the parameter of interest chosen and... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20080252527 - Method and apparatus for acquiring local position and overlaying information: A method and system for determining relative position information among at least a subset of a plurality of devices and objects is disclosed. The relative position information is based on at least one of sensor data and respective information attributes corresponding to the plurality of devices and objects.... Agent: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP.

20080252528 - Positioning system, positioning ic chip, positioning method and positioning program: The present invention easily evaluates the positioning accuracy by using fewer signal sources. The receiver is a positioning system for estimating the position of the receiver itself which is constituted by: a distance calculation section which calculates information indicating the respective distances between a plurality of GPS satellites and the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080246647 - Subsurface imaging radar: The present invention can be summarized by use of a diffraction limited SAR giving large integration angle and a short depth of field which gives that energy from underground targets is focused independently at different depths to enable 3d imaging. The radar device according to the invention should be implemented... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20080246648 - Methods for rapid target acquisitions in range measurement systems: A method for acquiring targets within a search area using an electronic device is disclosed. The method involves partitioning a first acquisition time period into a plurality of range gates, simultaneously positioning one or more of the range gates within the search area during a search mode, and transmitting an... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080246649 - Method for phase calibrating antennas in a radar system: A method for phase calibrating antennas in a radar system is disclosed. The method comprises providing a transmit antenna and two or more receive antennas, the receive antennas each in communication with a respective receiver channel. A radio frequency pulse having a leakage pulse is transmitted from the transmit antenna.... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080246650 - Short range radar and method of controlling the same: A pair pulse generator generates one pair of pulses including a first pulse having a predetermined width and a second pulse having a width equal to that of the first pulse and being behind from the first pulse by preset time each time a transmission designation signal is received. A... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080246651 - Distance measurement in a radio communication arrangement: A radio communication arrangement including a plurality of transceivers and a distance measurement managing circuit. The distance measurement managing circuit is situated in a communication layer higher than the physical layer, is coupled with the plurality of transceivers, and controls the plurality of transceivers for measuring the distances of the... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080246653 - Gps navigation using interacting multiple model (imm) estimator and probabilistic data association filter (pdaf): A method for GPS navigation which uses an interacting multiple-model (IMM) estimator with a probabilistic data association filter (PDAF) improves navigation performance. The method includes (a) providing two or more models of GPS navigation, with each model characterized by a model state vector which is updated periodically, (b) providing for... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080246654 - Method and an apparatus to assist user back to previous location: A device is provided, which uses a positioning system, to determine a first geographic location, while the device is located at the first geographic location. Information concerning the first geographic location may be stored in a computer memory. The device may be moved from the first geographic location to a... Agent: Walter J. Tencza Jr.

20080246655 - Spreading codes for a satellite navigation system: One embodiment of the present invention provides a method of creating a set of spreading codes for use in a satellite navigation system comprising a constellation of satellites. Each satellite in the constellation is to be allocated a spreading code from the set of spreading codes. The method comprises generating... Agent: Park, Vaughan & Fleming LLP

20080246656 - Automatic gps tracking system with passive battery circuitry: An automatic GPS tracking system is taught that consists of a GPS tracking unit secured to a person or an asset that includes a GPS receiver and a first battery operated a processor and first RF transceiver which emits an RF signal. A home base station receives the RF signal... Agent: Ohanes D. Ghazarian

20080246657 - Satellite positioning system enabled media measurement system and method: The present invention is directed to utilizing monitoring devices (200) for determining the effectiveness of various locations, such as media display locations (150) for an intended purpose (media display exposure). The monitoring devices (200) are distributed to a number of study respondents. The monitoring devices (200) track the movements of... Agent: Christensen, O'connor, Johnson, Kindness, PLLC

20080246658 - Mobile crane: The present invention relates to a mobile crane having means for wireless reception or for the determination of data identifying the location of the crane as well as having transmission means which are in communication with these means or can be connected to them, wherein the transmission means are configured... Agent: Dilworth & Barrese, LLP

20080246652 - Gps pathfinder method and device: A device and system for use in the early stages of search and recovery after a disaster. The device incorporates a GPS and a radio with very simplified, pre-programmed instructions which are uploaded automatically in the device's memory via wireless technology prior to the unit's first use at a disaster... Agent: Mchale & Slavin, P.A.

20080246659 - Memory reduction in gnss receiver: Radiolocalization receiver with a massively parallel array of correlators, comprising a data compression module (199) to compress the incoherent integration values accumulated into the incoherent integration memories (176). By compressing incoherent integration values, relevant memory saving can be obtained or, in alternative, loss of data by excessive prescaling can be... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080246661 - First output position calculation method, storage medium, positioning device, and electronic instrument: In the first positioning, a positioning process that calculates the present position based on acquired GPS satellite signals (step A3) is performed a plurality of times. A number of times that the difference (position difference) ΔP between the calculated present located position and the preceding located position is successively equal... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20080246660 - Present position locating method, positioning device, and electronic instrument: Estimation calculations for calculating an estimated present position are performed twice corresponding to each satellite set. The estimated present position calculated by the second estimation calculations is determined to be a present position candidate corresponding to the target satellite set. In the first estimation calculations corresponding to the first satellite... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20080246662 - Method for determining the null point of a gyroscope: A system for correcting angular velocity measurements from a gyroscope and using the corrected angular velocity measurements to position an antenna used with a vehicle. The system determines an approximate null point voltage of a gyroscope of the type that produces a voltage related to an angular velocity to be... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080246663 - Antenna arrangement: An antenna has multiple antenna elements, with a beam forming Butler matrix, having antenna ports and input/output ports, with each of said antenna elements being connected to a respective port of the beam forming Butler matrix. Transceiver circuitry is connected to each of the input/output ports of the beam forming... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080238757 - System and methods for remote sensing using double-sideband signals: A sensing system (100) is provided that includes a transceiver (102). The transceiver includes a transmitter chain that transmits a double-sideband electromagnetic wave having first and second frequency components, and a receiving chain that receives the double-sideband electromagnetic wave after it is reflected by a target. The system (100) further... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080238758 - Method for pre-detecting responses in a secondary radar or application to the detection of mode s responses: The invention relates to a method for pre-detecting responses in a secondary radar. It applies in particular to the detection of mode S responses. An aim of the invention is to process the signals received before decoding the responses so as to allow the detection of mixed responses, and avoid... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20080238759 - Integrated distance measuring equipment and transponder system and method: A combined transponder and DME system for use in an aircraft. An L Band transmitter is shared between transponder and DME.... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services Ab-2b

20080238760 - Scanner: A laser radar device that operates on an elapsed time basis and has a pulsating laser for emitting successive light pulses into a monitored region. A light receiver receives light impulses reflected by an object in the monitored region and generates electrical signals responsive to the received light impulses. The... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20080238761 - In-vehicle pulse radar device: Provided is an in-vehicle pulse radar device capable of calculating a distance to a target object based on a delay time between a transmission pulse wave and a received signal. The in-vehicle pulse radar device includes: a reception control unit for controlling passing and blocking of the received signal in... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080238762 - System and methods for multistep target detection and parameter estimation: A system and methods for multistep target detection and parameter estimation which utilizes slices and/or projections of the cross-ambiguity function of the transmitted and received signals of a sensor system is disclosed. The system and methods of the present invention offer a computationally efficient means of detecting targets while achieving... Agent: Jones Day

20080238763 - Method and system for calibrating radar altimeters: A method for calibrating an altimeter is disclosed. The method comprises monitoring signal strength of one or more altitude measurements. Based on the signal strength, the method applies piecewise linear altitude correction to the one or more altitude measurements to generate altitude correction data. The method further determines a goodness-of-fit... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080238765 - Satellite clock prediction: Devices and methods are described for determining position information without broadcast ephemeris data for a spanned time period using predictions of future satellite states. These predictions include predictions of satellite clock bias. During the spanned time period, broadcast ephemeris is received such that a broadcast-ephemeris-derived satellite clock bias may be... Agent: Macpherson Kwok Chen & Heid LLP

20080238767 - System and method for effectively performing enhanced mobile-device location procedures: A system and method for effectively performing enhanced device location procedures to determine the current physical location of a mobile device includes a plurality of satellites that wirelessly transmit satellite beacon signals, a plurality of base stations that wirelessly transmit pilot signals, and a plurality of access points that wirelessly... Agent: Gregory J. Koerner Redwood Patent Law

20080238768 - Gps tracking & behavior monitoring device with back-end software program service integrations: s

20080238766 - Apparatus having integrated radio and gps receivers: An apparatus includes a radio receiver, a GPS receiver and a semiconductor package. The semiconductor package contains both the radio receiver and the GPS receiver.... Agent: Trop Pruner & Hu, PC

20080238764 - Method and system for determining position of terminal by using gps terminal and location detector in gps satellite-invisible area: The method for finding location of a GPS terminal in a GPS satellite-invisible area by using a mapping server including the mobile terminal, a location detector, a PDE, and a database, comprising: (a) obtaining a reference pilot signal of a base station or a repeater and a LD pilot signal... Agent: Lowe Hauptman Ham & Berner, LLP

20080238769 - Geofencing and route adherence in global positioning system with signals from fewer than three satellites: When a global positioning system receiver receives signals from too few satellites to determine its position unambiguously, the receiver determines a solution surface as a set of possible locations determined from the signals received from the satellites. It then determines a minimum possible distance from a base location to that... Agent: Caesar, Rivise, Bernstein, Cohen & Pokotilow, Ltd.

20080238770 - Gps device and integrated circuit with an on-chip gyrator: An integrated circuit, for use in a GPS device, includes an on-chip gyrating circuit that generates a motion parameter based on motion of the IC. A global positioning system (GPS) receiver receives a GPS signal and generates GPS position data based on the GPS signal. A processing module processes the... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080238772 - Method and apparatus for using multipath signal in gps architecture: A method and apparatus for constructive use of a multipath signal in GPS signal processing is provided. In one embodiment, the method includes: a) receiving a GPS signal at a mobile object from a satellite vehicle, b) determining a distance characteristic relating a reflecting object to the mobile object, c)... Agent: Calfee Halter & Griswold, LLP

20080238771 - Vehicle position detection system: A vehicle position detection system is provided to detect a vehicle position with higher accuracy. The vehicle position detection system includes a GPS receiving device mounted on the vehicle to receive GPS signals from a GPS satellite, a light beacon communication device mounted on the vehicle to receive light beacon... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080238774 - Broadband beam steering antenna: The present invention relates to an antenna apparatus with steerable beam pattern, an RF transceiver comprising the antenna apparatus and a mobile device comprising the antenna apparatus. The antenna apparatus according to the present invention is attachable to the front-end of a transceiver circuitry and comprises at least two balanced... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080238773 - Directivity control apparatus of array antenna and directivity controlling method: An array antenna directivity control apparatus includes: weighting coefficient updator which updates a weighting coefficient based on an error between antenna signals of multiple antennas and a known reference signal; and update amount corrector which corrects an amount of updating for each of the weighting coefficients, which updating is performed... Agent: Hanify & King Professional Corporation

20080238775 - Beamformed space time code communication with testing spatial signature generation: An apparatus, logic and method are provided to improve beamformed space time code (STC) wireless communication. A first device comprising a plurality of antennas receives signals at the plurality of antennas transmitted from a first antenna of a second device. A testing spatial signature for a second antenna of the... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20080238776 - Microwave position sensing for a turbo machine: A microwave position sensing system includes a plurality of target components that each move between multiple positions. A microwave generator produces a microwave frequency signal. A divider receives the microwave frequency signal and splits the microwave frequency signal into a plurality of position sensing signals. The position sensing signals are... Agent: Carlson, Gaskey & Olds, P.C.

20080238777 - System and method for enhancin the accuracy of a location estimate: A method for enabling a system to enhance the accuracy of a location estimate modifies weights in a weight matrix associated with receiver station measurements in parallel with successive refinements of the location estimate. In a typical location estimation scenario, several receiving stations simultaneously derive measurements of a signal from... Agent: Duane Morris LLP