Communications: directive radio wave systems and devices (e.g., radar, radio navigation) inventions 10/09

20090243917 - Method of processing a radar image, obtained in particular from an airborne radar, with evaluation of the altitude of the 0ºc isotherm: The invention targets a method of processing a radar image obtained from a radar. It comprises an automatic evaluation of the altitude of the isotherm at zero degrees Celsius, called zero isotherm, using a processing of the reflectivity information (rf(px)) conveyed by pixels (px) forming all or part of the... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20090243918 - System and method for presenting wind speed information: A system and method for presenting wind speed information in a manner so as to be easily understood and appreciated by viewers of televised weather report presentations and the like. Wind speed information is presented as two or three-dimensional wind speed contour lines, delineating geographic areas corresponding to different wind... Agent: Boyle Fredrickson S.c.

20090243911 - Method and device for positioning aircraft, such as for automatic guiding during the landing phase: The present invention relates to a method and a device for locating aircraft. A radar (3) performs distance and angle location of the aircraft. Location is refined by means of at least one airborne beacon (4) aboard the aircraft and of at least one beacon (5) whose position is predetermined... Agent: Lowe Hauptman & Berner, LLP

20090243912 - Automotive radar sensor blockage detection system and related techniques: A blockage detection system and method for use in a sensor such as a side object detection (SOD) sensor in an automotive radar system is described. The sensor emits signals and receives return signals (i.e. reflected signals) from a passing object. If the passing object is within a virtual detection... Agent: Valeo Radar Systems, Inc. C/o Daly, Crowley, Mofford And Durkee, LLP

20090243913 - Radar device and control method of radar device: This radar device includes: a transmitter to transmit a transmitting signal whose frequency is periodically increased/decreased at a predetermined rate of change; a mixer to generate a beat signal by multiplying a received signal being transmitted by the transmitter and reflected back from an object to be detected and the... Agent: Turocy & Watson, LLP

20090243914 - Methods and simulation tools for predicting gps performance in the broad operating environment: To facilitate GPS hardware selection and evaluate performance of vehicle integrated GPS hardware, including various types of GPS antennas and receivers, within different vehicle operating environments, embodiments of the invention are used to provide a simulator which does not require physical GPS hardware to simulate GPS system performance. Preferably, the... Agent: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd.

20090243915 - Microwave sensor apparatus and microwave sensor system: A microwave sensor apparatus according to an embodiment of the invention includes a reception detection circuit which amplifies a microwave received through a reception antenna, performs wave detection, and supplies a reception detection signal, a monitoring unit for monitoring the reception detection signal supplied from the reception detection circuit, detecting... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20090243916 - System and method for volume visualization in ultra-wideband radar: Herewith disclosed a method for volume visualization in ultra-wideband radar and a system thereof. The method comprises perceiving processing provided in order to facilitate a meaningful representation and/or an instant understanding of the image to be displayed, said perceiving processing resulted in generating one or more perceiving image ingredients. The... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20090243919 - Receiver and signal processing system: A receiver includes a detector configured to detect a signal and output an output signal, a state section configured to control the signal inputting into the detector according to a level of a control signal, an edge section configured to discard the output signal of the detector while detecting an... Agent: Arent Fox LLP

20090243920 - Positioning method, program, and positioning apparatus: A positioning method adapted to perform interactive mixing model calculation (IMM calculation) for combining outputs of a plurality of Kalman filter processes while applying weighting of given model probabilities to the outputs in a positioning apparatus, includes the steps of (a) calculating a first likelihood index value of a first... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20090243921 - Synchronization of data on survey devices: Tools for synchronizing survey data between one or more survey devices and a surveying office application. The disclosed tools can help to ensure that each of the devices, and the office application, have consistent data. An exemplary tool might detect a change to data in an office application, identify any... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090243922 - System and method for using data phase to reduce position ambiguities: A geographic tracking system with minimal power and size required at the mobile terminal collects observation data at the mobile terminal and forwards the data to a processor, which calculates the position. The mobile terminal is configured to measure both code phase and data phase of a GPS satellite signal.... Agent: Law Office Of Duane S. Kobayashi

20090243925 - Infrastructure and method for geography based vehicle alert: With the present invention a cost effective infrastructure for geofencing of vehicles is provided which is able to monitor a large amount of complex geofences. In addition, a reliable method for geofencing of vehicles in real-time is provided.... Agent: Ibm Corporation RochesterIPLaw Dept. 917

20090243923 - Method and system for monitoring the positions of multiple towed vehicles using a single high accuracy receiver: In a system for determining the positions of multiple towed vehicles that are towed by a towing vehicle, a satellite antenna is provided on each towed vehicle and a high accuracy satellite receiver is placed on the towing vehicle, the positions of the towed vehicle of interest being determined by... Agent: Vollrath & Associates

20090243924 - Operating gps receivers in gps-adverse environment: A system for operating a GPS receiver in a GPS-adverse environment includes a plurality of GPS receivers, a plurality of remote sensor interfaces (RSIs), and a computer management system. The GPS receivers are adapted to determine positional parameters based on the GPS satellite signals. A first set of GPS receivers... Agent: Tillman Wright, PLLC

20090243926 - Radio communication apparatus and information processing apparatus: A radio communication apparatus has a GPS function, is internally included in or is removably connected to an information processing apparatus and operates with the power supplied from the information processing apparatus. Charging means charges the power supplied from the information processing apparatus. Reference position setting means sets a reference... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20090243928 - Information processing apparatus, position estimating method, program, artificial satellite system: There is provided an information processing apparatus arranged with a satellite position estimating section for estimating a position of an artificial satellite at an arbitrary time by substituting the arbitrary time to an estimate equation of the position of the artificial satellite represented by a sum of one, or two... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090243927 - Method for estimating hidden channel parameters of a gnss navigation signal received in a multipath environment: For the reduction of the multipath error of received GNSS navigation signals, a sequential Bayesian estimation is used, with a movement model forming the basis of the estimation, which model is designed especially for dynamic channel scenarios and takes into account the speeds of change and the variable life cycles... Agent: Collard & Roe, P.C.

20090243929 - Method and apparatus for faster global positioning system (gps) location using a pre-computed spatial location for tracking gps satellites: A method and apparatus for faster global positioning system (GPS) location using pre-computed spatial location data are described. In one embodiment, a method includes acquiring a pre-computed spatial location of a mobile platform device (MPD) that is computed when a GPS receiver is disabled due to the spatial location of... Agent: Intel/bstz Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090243930 - Method of generating better communication direction: The invention discloses a method for generating better communication direction. The method comprises the following steps of: (a) positioning a first communication device to obtain a first position; (b) positioning a second communication device to obtain a second position; (c) associating the first position with the second position to obtain... Agent: Reed Smith LLP

20090243931 - Method and apparatus for power loss compensation and suppression of sidelobes in antenna arrays: An antenna array for the transmission of signals is disclosed which comprises a plurality of antenna elements connected to a plurality of transceivers. The plurality of transceivers receive transceiver signals for transmission to the plurality of antenna elements. The antenna comprises a failure detector or monitoring and control system connected... Agent: Dann, Dorfman, Herrell & Skillman

20090243932 - Methods and systems for determining the location of an electronic device: Embodiments of the present invention include a method of determining a location of a mobile device. The method comprises transmitting a signal between a plurality of known locations and receiving signal at device of unknown location such as a mobile device. The signal may include multiple tones having different frequencies... Agent: Fountainhead Law Group, PC

20090243933 - Direction-of-arrival estimation apparatus: A direction-of-arrival estimation apparatus has a signal vector generation unit operable to generate a signal vector v composed of N baseband signals v1 to vn from arriving signals received from a target by N sensors. The direction-of-arrival estimation apparatus includes a Hankel matrix generation unit operable to preferentially set an... Agent: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

20090243934 - Wireless time reference system and method: Instead of normalizing time reference of independent spatially-located clocks using a reference tag transmission from known location, the present invention uses an interarrival time interval between a pulse pair of UWB pulses as a timing metric. Thus, a method of synchronizing spatially-located clocks or normalizing time indications thereof comprises transmitting... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP