Communications: directive radio wave systems and devices (e.g., radar, radio navigation) inventions 11/08

20080291075 - Vehicle-network defensive aids suite: A defensive aids suite for light armored vehicles utilizes four complementary sensor technologies including: visible and infrared optics, radar, acoustics and both laser and millimeter wave detection. Targeting and maneuvering optics are used for long-range threat detection with obscuration grenades and vehicle countermaneuvers being used to avoid a threat. Short... Agent: George A. Seaby Seaby & Associates

20080291076 - Method and device for a material-penetrative localization of a measurement signal: d

20080291082 - Method for detecting atmospheric turbulence by an embedded electromagnetic sensor, notably on board an aircraft: An aim of the invention is to allow the detection of turbulence in the absence of tracers. A radar is embedded aboard an aircraft (21) and implements the following steps: searching for the upper part of a convective system (1) situated outside the given zone, reflecting the electromagnetic waves; searching... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20080291077 - Apparatus and method for radar imaging by measuring spatial frequency components: A radar imaging system is provided that directly measures the spatial frequency components of a scene via digital-beam-forming techniques applied along the cross-track dimension. Separate transmit and receive antennas provide increased integration time for the receive function, thus improving the signal-to-noise ratio. A segmented receive antenna is employed and processed... Agent: O'melveny & Myers LLP Ip&t Calendar Department La-1118

20080291078 - Radar system for motor vehicles: A radar system for motor vehicles, having a radar sensor and an evaluation device for measuring distances and relative velocities of objects in the surrounding field of the vehicle, and a collision detection device, which, on the basis of the measured distances and relative velocities, recognizes an imminent collision and... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080291079 - Digital beam-forming apparatus and technique for a multi-beam global positioning system (gps) receiver: An advanced multiple-beam GPS receiving system is achieved that is capable of simultaneously tracking multiple GPS satellites independently, detecting multiple interference signals individually, and suppressing directional gain in the antenna pattern of each beam in the interference directions. The GPS receiving system can be used for both planar and non-planar... Agent: O'melveny & Myers LLP Ip&t Calendar Department La-1118

20080291081 - Radar image processor and method of radar image processing: In a radar image processing device and a radar image processing method which can accurately extract a change of a ground surface, a communication interface unit (10) obtains a plurality of radar image data of a same observation target obtained at different times and stores in a radar image storage... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080291080 - Systems and methods for providing trigger timing: A system for providing signal trigger pulses comprises an equivalent time sampling unit providing transmit and receive trigger pairs, and a control unit controlling the equivalent time sampling unit to provide pseudorandom delay length variations between the trigger pairs.... Agent: Dla Piper US LLP

20080291083 - Retro-directive ground-terminal antenna for communication with geostationary satellites in slightly inclined orbits: A retro-directive antenna for communicating with a geostationary satellite autonomously detects the direction from which a signal is received, and transmits a beam that points back along the same direction. An array feed is used to illuminate a parabolic reflector. Each feed element of the retro-directive antenna is associated with... Agent: O'melveny & Myers LLP Ip&t Calendar Department La-1118

20080291084 - Independent device for determining absolute geographic coordinates of an immersed moving body: This invention relates to immersed moving bodies for which the activity requires knowledge of their absolute geographic coordinates. This is the case particularly for moving bodies performing site survey operations, excavations and more generally exploration operations. A moving body can equally well refer to an independent diver, a manned vehicle... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20080291085 - Terminal device, method of controlling terminal device, and recording medium: A terminal device searches for a satellite signal by performing a correlation process over a predetermined first accumulation time within a predetermined frequency range in units of search frequencies at specific intervals. When the terminal device has failed in searching for the satellite signal, the terminal device searches for the... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20080291086 - Position determination using available positioning techniques: A radio device that is capable of positioning itself using one or more available positioning techniques includes a selection parameter defined to enable selection of at least one of the available positioning techniques supported by the radio device for use in calculating the location of the radio device. At least... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080291087 - Split aperture array for increased short range target coverage: A phased array radar system comprising a plurality of radiating elements configured in a common array aperture for detecting and tracking targets; and a transmit and receive arrangement responsive to a first control signal for configuring the plurality of radiating elements to define a plurality of sub-apertures from the common... Agent: HowardIPLaw Group

20080291088 - Radar apparatus: An array antenna includes a first end portion that has a first plurality of antennas arranged with a spacing d therebetween and a second end portion that has a second plurality of antennas arranged with the spacing d therebetween. In the array antenna, a spacing between respective antennas in both... Agent: Dickstein Shapiro LLP

20080291089 - Apparatus and method for computing location of a moving beacon using time difference of arrival and multi-frequencies: Provided is an apparatus and method for computing the location of a radio beacon by using Time Difference Of Arrival (TDOA) and multiple frequencies. The apparatus and method of the present invention compute the location of a radio beacon without limitation in distance by using multiple frequencies and time difference... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20080291090 - Method for estimating distance between transmitter and receiver, and transmitter and receiver implementing same: A method for estimating the distance between a transmitter and at least one receiver. The transmitter has radio transmission circuitry, at least part of which is operable in a first operation mode for transmitting a first signal type within a first bandwidth and in a second operation mode for transmitting... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080284636 - Object detection method and apparatus: Method and apparatus for detecting objects. In one embodiment, a person entering a secured zone is illuminated with low-power polarized radio waves. Differently polarized waves which are reflected back from the person are collected. Concealed weapons are detected by measuring various parameters of the reflected signals and then calculating various... Agent: Peacock Myers, P.C.

20080284637 - Digital tas transmitter and receiver systems and methods: A directional receiver is provided for an aircraft collision avoidance system. The receiver may include input channels that are configured to receive uncompressed linear analog signals from antenna elements that are arranged within a predetermined antenna element geometry. The receiver may further include Analog to Digital (A/D) converter modules, a... Agent: Garmin International, Inc. Attn: Legal - Ip

20080284638 - Radar device and method for adjusting among radar sites: A radar device includes a generation unit, a transmission unit, and a control unit. The generation unit selectively generates a set of a plurality of transmission signals whose center frequencies are different from one another within an assigned frequency band. The transmission unit emits the transmission signals. The control unit... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080284639 - Method for reducing radio ranging errors due to clock frequency offsets: r

20080284640 - Polarimetric selectivity method for suppressing cross-track clutter in sounding radars: Methods for suppressing cross-track clutter in a sounding radar utilize polarimetric selectivity in two ways: (1) transmitting full-beam circular polarization and separating the desired signal of interest from the clutter based on the signal and clutter having different polarizations, and (2) transmitting and receiving circular polarization at the radar's nadir... Agent: The Johns Hopkins Universityapplied Physics Labora Office Of Patent Counsel

20080284641 - Doppler radar systems: The invention can be embodied in a pulsed radar, for which each set of signals comprises a set of pulsed signals and each pulsed signal is repeated at a selected repetition rate. The radar controller is then arranged to modify the repetition rate in dependence on the characteristic frequency of... Agent: Bainwood Huang & Associates LLC

20080284643 - Post-mission high accuracy position and orientation system: A method of generating post-mission position and orientation data comprises generating position and orientation data representing positions and orientations of a mobile platform, based on global navigation satellite system (GNSS) data and inertial navigation system (INS) data acquired during a data acquisition period by the mobile platform, using a network... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080284644 - Satellite positioning method and system: According to the present invention, each navigation satellite (1) verifies in an autonomous manner the essential information that it transmits to the users, by virtue of unidirectional links received from reference beacons (11).... Agent: James E. Ledbetter

20080284645 - Relative positioning method and relative positioning system using satellite: A positioning system wherein radio waves from a GPS satellite (4) are received by a reference station (1), the absolute position of which is already known, and a plurality of mobile stations (3) to perform relative positioning among particular stations, thereby determining the positions of the mobile stations (3). At... Agent: Kusner & Jaffe Highland Place Suite 310

20080284648 - Information terminal apparatus, information processing apparatus and information communication system: When transmitting position/time information calculated by means of a GPS function to a server apparatus, authentication is carried out with the server apparatus. The position/time information may be certified as legitimate measured by a portable apparatus with a GPS reception function employed by a user. When transmitting information related to... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080284647 - Transmission of information to a system utilizing a gps device: A system for transmitting non-GPS information for reception by a global positioning system (GPS) receiver, the system including a processor, a memory coupled to the processor and including computer-readable instructions configured to, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to receive the non-GPS information, determine an available pseudo-random noise... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.c Attn: Patent Intake Customer No. 30623

20080284646 - Use of broadcast position data for subsequent gps location fix: A radio device that is capable of positioning itself within a broadcast radio system includes a radio receiver operable to receive a plurality of broadcast radio signals, each broadcast from a respective one of a plurality of broadcast radio signal sources, and a GPS receiver coupled to receive a broadcast... Agent: Garlick Harrison & Markison

20080284642 - Optimizing bandwidth of a global positioning system: A method and system for optimizing a global positioning system. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving an indication of at least one change in coordinate attributes, determining a plurality of cost and transaction rules based on at least one user preference, and processing a plurality coordinate transactions based on... Agent: Ibm St-svl Sawyer Law Group LLP

20080284649 - Method for positioning and a positioning system: A method for recording a position of at least one component in a location system of a control system of an industrial facility for an industrial process. A model of the facility is created, including position coordinates for major parts of the facility. The model is stored in a location... Agent: Venable LLP

20080284650 - Sports sensor: A data logger for a monitoring sports which includes an accelerometer, a gyro sensor to sense angular displacement, a GPS unit to sense position and velocity, a magnetometer to sense direction of movement, a heart rate monitor, and a controller programmed to manipulate the data and provide a display of... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP

20080284652 - Frequency scanning antenna: d

20080284651 - Radar system: Embodiments of the invention thus combine digital synthesiser techniques, which are capable of precise frequency generation and control, with passive frequency scanning and Doppler processing techniques. This enables accurate control of range and of scan rates, and enables optimisation of range cell size for factors such as slow and fast... Agent: Bainwood Huang & Associates LLC

20080278371 - Methods and systems for reducing acquisition time in airborne weather radar: An airborne weather radar system and method. The method includes serially generating and transmitting first and second radar pulses having non-overlapping frequency ranges, receiving reflected echoes from the transmitted radar pulses in parallel, and processing the received echoes into a usable form. In an alternative embodiment, the method also includes... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services Ab-2b

20080278365 - Method of verifiably detecting the speed of a vehicle: A method of measuring the speed of a vehicle wherein the speed and the distance of the vehicle from a radar system and/or the measuring angle of the vehicle relative to the radar axis is determined by means of a radar measurement so as to characterize or determine the vehicle... Agent: Duane Morris LLP - Ny Patent Department

20080278366 - Method and device for determining the vehicle class of vehicles: The invention relates to a method and device with which a vehicle traveling through a radar cone is classified by means of length criteria. The length criteria are formed by the difference of the driven distance that the vehicle covers, during which it reflects the radar beam, and the passage... Agent: Duane Morris LLP - Ny Patent Department

20080278367 - Integrated attitude altimeter: An aircraft electronics system is provided that includes a radar system, a display, an embedded global positioning/inertial navigation system (EGI) and a processor. The radar system is configured to generate aircraft operational data. The display is configured to display the aircraft operational data. The EGI is configured to generate aircraft... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20080278368 - Frequency modulation radar device: The frequency modulation radar device includes a transmitting unit (5), M receiving units for receiving a reflected signal as M channels, a mixing unit (7) for mixing the transmitting signal with the M received signals to obtain beat signals for the M channels, a frequency analyzing unit (9) for analyzing... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080278369 - Apparatus and methods for radar imaging based on injected push-push oscillators: The present invention relates to radar imaging and to phased array antennas. The invention also relates to transmitter/receiver modules, push-push oscillators and Injection locked push-push oscillators for phased array antennas. The invention reduces the production cost and improves the performance of conventional phased array antennas.... Agent: Soroker-agmon Advocate And Patent Attorneys

20080278370 - Rf-frontend for a radar system: An RF front-end includes an input configured to receive an oscillator signal, and an antenna port configured to transmit a transmission signal and receive a reception signal from an antenna. The RF front-end further includes a mixer having an RF-input configured to receive the reception signal, an oscillator input configured... Agent: Eschweiler & Associates LLC

20080278372 - Two-stage location system: Systems and methods are provided for two-stage location. In one implementation, there is provided a method for receiving a first location of a first radio, the first radio providing the first location of the first radio; using the received first location to determine when to transmit an activation command from... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.c Attn: Patent Intake Customer No. 64046

20080278373 - Method of updating the clock bias between a gsm network bts and gps satellites: The present invention relates to a method of updating the clock bias between the common clock of the satellites of a radio navigation satellite system and the clock of a radio station of an asynchronous cellular radiotelephone system including a mobile device including a radio navigation satellite system receiver for... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080278374 - Method for dynamically selecting antenna array architecture: The present invention discloses a method for dynamically selecting antenna array architecture, deciding a basic antenna array, determining a number of required array elements, selecting determined number of array elements from all the array elements in the basic antenna array to form an antenna array architecture and receiving and detecting... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080272954 - Holographic imaging of natural-fiber-containing materials: The present invention includes methods and apparatuses for imaging material properties in natural-fiber-containing materials. In particular, the images can provide quantified measures of localized moisture content. Embodiments of the invention utilize an array of antennas and at least one transceiver to collect amplitude and phase data from radiation interacting with... Agent: Battelle Memorial Institute Attn:IPServices, K1-53

20080272955 - Active radar system: An example radar system for a vehicle comprises a radar antenna, operable to produce a radar beam, and a lens assembly including at least one active lens, the radar beam passing through the lens assembly. The radar beam has a field of view that is adjustable using the active lens.... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle, Anderson & Citkowski, P.C.

20080272956 - System and method for radar detection of an object: There is provided a radar system for detection of one or more objects. The radar system comprises a radar wave transmitter for simultaneously transmitting a CW radar signal and a FM-CW or MF radar signal, and a first radar wave receiver for receiving CW and FM-CW or MF radar signals,... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle,anderson & Citkowski, P.c

20080272957 - Method and device for determining the relative velocity of objects: A method and a device are provided for determining the relative velocity of objects by using transmitted and received microwave radiation. The transmission signal has a carrier frequency which is increased or decreased in a ramp-like manner, and the transmission signal is additionally modulated using a PN code sequence. The... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20080272958 - Collision detection system and method of estimating target crossing location: A collision detection system and method of estimating a crossing location are provided. The system includes a first sensor for sensing an object in a field of view and sensing a first range defined as the distance between the object and the first sensor. The system also includes a second... Agent: Delphi Technologies, Inc.

20080272959 - Duplexer for simultaneous transmit and receive radar systems: An enhanced duplexer (1) which includes a combination of high dynamic range (HDR) amplifiers (11, 17) and a naovel signal cancellation circuit topology (15). Return signals from the circulator (3) are fed into the first HDR amplifier (11). A portion of the transmit signal is sampled with a directional coupler... Agent: Bae Systems

20080272960 - Method and system for gps position measuring and frequency error detecting method: A receiver terminal receives a frequency from an external reference oscillator portion, which is more accurate than that of a frequency generated within the receiver in a local oscillator portion. The frequency from the local oscillator portion is measured using the external frequency as the reference, which determines the error... Agent: Kratz, Quintos & Hanson, LLP

20080272961 - Determination of a relative position of a satellite signal receiver: For enhancing the quality of a relative positioning, a filter is adjusted depending on information on a movement of a satellite signal receiver. A position of the satellite signal receiver is determined relative to a reference station using the filter, wherein measurements on satellite signals received by the satellite signal... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20080272962 - Wireless area network compliant system and method using a phase array antenna: A wireless area network communication system comprising at least one phased array antenna frame, a phased array antenna circuit connected to the at least one phased array antenna frame wherein said phased array circuit and said at least one phased array antenna frame are adapted to transmit and receive wireless... Agent: Soroker-agmon Advocate And Patent Attorneys