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

20090278725 - Identification and mapping of underground facilities: A system or method of creating a map of voids in the ground based on a scattered electromagnetic signal includes traversing a receiver/probe in a near field above a target area; generating a signal from a signal transmitter, the signal having a predetermined wavelength λ; receiving a scattered signal with... Agent: Mcnees Wallace & Nurick LLC

20090278732 - Method and apparatus for simultaneous synthetic aperture radar and moving target indication: Method and apparatus for simultaneous synthetic aperture radar and moving target detection. A plurality of independent radio frequency signals are generated and applied to separate radiating/receiving antenna elements. Signals are generated as basis functions, such that moving target detection and synthetic aperture radar signals are constructed from individual waveform components... Agent: Air Force Research Laboratory Rij

20090278726 - Method and apparatus for representing and classifying microwave back-projection radar signals: A moving object is classified by transmitting, by a linear array of transmit antenna elements, a microwave into a surveillance area. A scattered microwave backprojected from a moving object is received by a linear array of receive antenna elements. Features are extracted from the scattered microwave related to a spiral... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20090278727 - Rader system: A radar system utilizing a CW radar system, including an FMCW radar, is capable of avoiding interference wave generation and of simultaneously covering a number of radar systems within limited frequency modulation bands. The radar system 1 for emitting into space transmission radio waves based on a frequency-modulated continuous wave... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090278728 - Doppler radar cardiopulmonary sensor and signal processing system and method for use therewith: A Doppler radar signal processing system and method and a Doppler radar employing the system or the method. In one embodiment, the system includes: (1) an input configured to receive at least one radar output signal representing a reflected Doppler radar signal, (2) signal processing circuitry coupled to the input... Agent: Hitt Gaines, PC Alcatel-lucent

20090278729 - Electromagnetic pulse reflector detection method: Detecting reflectors of an emitted electromagnetic pulse, using a received signal, by time-sampling the received signal and the emitted pulse at a same sampling frequency, each received sample corresponding to a return-trip distance for the emitted pulse between its transmitter and a possible reflector. The sampled received signal is divided... Agent: Darby & Darby P.C.

20090278730 - radar-based method for measuring a level of material in a container: Described is a radar-based method for measuring a level of material in a container. Microwaves are emitted to a surface of the material by a radar level gauge, echo waves reflected from the surface are received and the received echo waves are converted into an echo function which is stored... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20090278731 - Rfi suppression in sar: A filter scheme for broadcast interference cancellation that is computationally efficient and numerically robust Airborne Low Frequency Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) operating in the VHF and UHF bands has been shown. At least interference Doppler filtering or interference cancellation is utilized. The interference cancellation involves prediction of the interference for... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090278734 - Data transfer: A portable electronic device comprises a controller and a display. The controller receives vector data on a position of a user of the portable device from a satellite positioning sensor associated with the user, and scalar data on movement of the user from at least one motion sensor associated with... Agent: Hoffmann & Baron, LLP

20090278733 - Method and apparatus for locating the source of an unknown signal: p

20090278735 - Frequency aiding method and system for navigation satellite receiver with crystal oscillator frequency hysteresis: A method and apparatus for estimating oscillator signal variation due to temperature and for providing an estimated frequency to a GPS receiver in order to assist the GPS receiver to acquire the signals quickly is disclosed. A temperature sensor is closely thermally coupled with the crystal oscillator in the GPS... Agent: Ridout & Maybee LLP

20090278736 - Method and apparatus for relative navigation using reflected gps signals: A method and system to passively navigate an orbiting moving body towards an orbiting target using reflected GPS signals. A pair of antennas is employed to receive both direct signals from a plurality of GPS satellites and a second antenna to receive GPS signals reflected off an orbiting target. The... Agent: Nasa Goddard Space Flight Center

20090278737 - Method and system of trace-position: A method of trace-position including following steps is provided. A tracing message is transferred to a second electronic device having a positioning function from a first electronic device, wherein the tracing message has a verifying code. The verifying code is verified by the second electronic device. The second electronic device... Agent: Muncy, Geissler, Olds & Lowe, PLLC

20090278738 - Gps power savings using low power sensors: A position location system, apparatus, and method are disclosed. A wireless device includes a satellite positioning system (SPS) receiver and position location processor. The SPS receiver detects the availability of positioning signals and the position location processor determines an initial position of the wireless device based upon the positioning signals.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090278739 - Gps signal data converter for providing gps signals to a plurality of connection ports: A global positioning system (GPS) signal data converter device includes a plurality of output ports configured to connect with and transmit GPS information to devices connected with the output ports, and a processor configured to receive GPS information in a first format, convert the GPS information from the first format... Agent: Edell, Shapiro & Finnan, LLC

20090278740 - Hybrid positioning method and device: The invention relates to a method of determining the position of an aircraft by combining inertial data with range data between the aircraft and satellites, in which: a) the range is stored in a FIFO memory so as make delayed range data available at the output from the memory; b)... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090278741 - Navigation apparatus and method of acquiring ephemeris data: A navigation apparatus includes: an acquisition unit for receiving a satellite signal from satellites and demodulates the satellite signal to acquire ephemeris data; a storing unit for storing the ephemeris data; a time measuring unit for measuring a valid time of the ephemeris data from timing of acquisition of the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.

20090278742 - Antenna selection with frequency-hopped sounding reference signals: The embodiments of the invention describe a method for antenna selection in a wireless communication network. The network includes a transceiver having a set of antennas. The transceiver is configured to transmit a frequency-hopped sounding reference signal (SRS) over a subband from a subset of antennas at a time. The... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20090278743 - Beam forming system and method for beam forming: A beam forming method of a radio network controller includes receiving information related to beam forming, calculating a distance between the mobile terminal and a base station and velocity of the mobile terminal based on the information related to beam forming, determining whether to perform beam forming, and allocating second... Agent: H.c. Park & Associates, PLC

20090273509 - Microwave imaging system and method: A system and method for using microwaves for forming a three-dimensional image of a target are disclosed. One or more RF waveforms are emitted toward the target on a plurality of frequencies from an array of antennas positioned around the target. Each antenna in the array of antennas is selectively... Agent: Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky And Popeo, P.c

20090273510 - System and method using airborne radar occultation for measuring atmospheric properties: A method for estimating an atmospheric condition existing between a portion of the Earth's surface and an airborne mobile platform travelling over the portion of the Earth's surface. The method may involve emitting a radar signal beam toward the Earth's surface from the mobile platform and receiving back at least... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, PLC

20090273503 - Systems and methods employing a collision avoidance system to enhance pilot awareness: Systems and methods relate to an aircraft with a CAS that may be employed to enhance pilot awareness. The CAS may be employed on a formation member aircraft to provide a TA that is distinctive for an intruding formation member aircraft, as opposed to a TA provided as a result... Agent: Squire Sanders & Dempsey LLP

20090273504 - Radar target processing reduction systems and methods using cooperative surveillance sources: Systems and methods for reducing radar target processing. The systems include a processor configured to receive a first input from a cooperative surveillance source and a second input from a radar device. The first input includes cooperative target information, the second input includes cooperative and non-cooperative target information, and the... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services

20090273505 - Radar system: A scanning radar system suitable for detecting and monitoring ground-based targets includes a frequency generator, a frequency scanning antenna, and a receiver arranged to process signals received from a target so as to identify a Doppler frequency associated with the target. The frequency generator generates sets of signals, each set... Agent: Bainwood Huang & Associates LLC

20090273506 - Method of determining a disturbance echo profile for a radar level gauge system: A method of determining a filling level of a product contained in a tank, the method comprising generating and transmitting electromagnetic signals; propagating the transmitted electromagnetic signals towards a surface of the product contained in the tank; receiving echo signals resulting from reflections at impedance transitions encountered by the transmitted... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20090273507 - Stepped frequency radar: A multi-port junction is fed with a frequency-stepped source and has one of its ports connected to an antenna that can serve either as a transmit-and-receive antenna or as a receive antenna only, with the outputs of the multi-port junction being used to estimate a complex reflection coefficient for each... Agent: Bae Systems

20090273508 - Multi-beam radar sensor: A multi-beam radar sensor has a plurality of antenna elements disposed next to each other, a collective lens situated at a distance in front of the antenna elements, and an additional preliminary focusing lens disposed in such a way that it affects only a portion of the radar radiation transmitted... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20090273511 - Method of operating a satellite navigation receiver: A receiver operating with satellite navigation signals estimates its position by means of a multiplicity of signals each transmitted by another satellite. A subset of satellites is used to calculate the position estimation and checking the pseudoranges of all received satellite signals that did not contribute to this particular estimate... Agent: Paul D. Greeley Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20090273512 - Global coordinate creation method for precision measurement of hollow frame: A method of creating a global coordinate of a polyhedral hollow frame includes a first step of providing a plurality of transmitters on a reference surface in the hollow frame, providing a plurality of reference sensors to create the coordinate of the reference surface, and creating a local coordinate frame... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090273514 - Adaptive coherent integration time: A mobile receiver having a coherent integration time that can be adaptively lengthened and shortened. The coherent integration time is based on determining whether information is already known regarding a received satellite signal. Thus, when information, such as, ephemeris, satellite clock, time, almanac, and/or other information, is known, the coherent... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090273515 - Method for autonomous determination of protection levels for gnss positioning based on navigation residuals and an isotropic confidence ratio: m

20090273513 - Method of dynamically optimizing the update rate of gps output data: A method of dynamically optimizing the update rate of GPS output data has acts of setting relationships between different moving speeds and different update rates; sensing a current moving speed of a GPS receiver; determining a update rate corresponding to the current moving speed of the GPS receiver; and outputting... Agent: Patenttm.us

20090273516 - Positioning device, method of controlling positioning device, and recording medium: A positioning device includes an estimated height storage section which stores an estimated height H1, a signal reception section which receives a satellite signal which is a signal from a satellite positioning system (SPS) satellite, a two-dimensional height calculation section which calculates a two-dimensional height H2c by two-dimensional positioning using... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20090273517 - Vertically integrated electronically steered phased array and method for packaging: A vertically integrated electronically steered phased array that employs beamsteering using a programmable phase locked loop including a local oscillator. The local oscillator provides an oscillator signal that is converted to an RF signal that can be either up-converted for a transmit operation or down-converted for a receive operation. The... Agent: MillerIPGroup, PLC Emag Technologies, Inc.

20090273518 - Associating a universal time with received signal: A method of associating a universal time with time of arrival information of an identified component of a signal at a terminal of a radio positioning system is disclosed. In the method a marker signal with an associated universal time tag is obtained from a timing device (or the marker... Agent: Roylance, Abrams, Berdo & Goodman, L.L.P.

20090273519 - Multilateration apparatus: In a multilateration apparatus a correlator is provided with a time of arrival correlation window which is set to cater for the path lengths that may be experienced before a signal from an object to be located is received by receivers in the system. This may be on the basis... Agent: Crowell & Moring LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090273520 - System and method for discovering and tracking communication directions with asymmetric antenna systems: A system and method for discovering and tracking communication directions is disclosed herein. In one embodiment, communication directions for two devices with asymmetric antenna systems are discovered. In one embodiment, a contention access period (CAP) is partitioned into an association CAP and a regular CAP, either of which may be... Agent: Knobbe, Martens, Olson, & Bear, LLP

20090267825 - Method and apparatus for compressing sar signals: A method compresses synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data by sampling the SAR data into blocks and transforming each block to a corresponding block of transform coefficients. Each block of transform coefficient is quantized according to a quantization parameter to obtain a corresponding block of quantized transform coefficients, which are demultiplexed... Agent: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.

20090267826 - System for measuring turbulence remotely: A system for detecting turbulence along a path that is subject to turbulence. The system may make use of at least one transmitter to transmit electromagnetic (EM) energy along the path and at least one receiver to receive the EM energy. At least one of the transmitter and the receiver... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, PLC

20090267822 - Mobile radar and planar antenna: In a conventional automotive radar, a return occurs in a phase difference characteristic necessary for a super-resolution method, resulting in an increase of a detection error, or an extremely narrowed azimuth detection range. A transmitting array antenna, and receiving array antennas are composed of antenna elements respectively, and aligned in... Agent: Miles & Stockbridge PC

20090267823 - Position estimating system, position estimating method, position estimating device and its program: A position estimating device (4) which estimates the position of an object by comparing a receiving pattern obtained from ID transmitters (2a, 2b, . . . ) and ID receivers (3a, 3b, . . . ) installed in an environment with a prestored receiving pattern. Position of an object equipped... Agent: Scully Scott Murphy & Presser, PC

20090267824 - Antenna array calibration: An antenna array comprises a surface comprising a replicated pattern of conductive tracks, the tracks defining a plurality of ports. A plurality of antennae are located at ports distributed about the surface. A plurality of radiative transceivers are electrically connected to a respective antenna. A plurality of reference transceivers are... Agent: Withrow & Terranova, P.l.l.c.

20090267828 - Gps signal receiving apparatus: According to one embodiment, a GPS signal receiving apparatus comprises a receiving module configured to receive a GPS signal from a GPS satellite, an inclination detecting module configured to detect an inclination angle of the GPS signal receiving apparatus, a determining module configured to determine whether or not the receiving... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090267827 - Position measurement results by a surveying device using a tilt sensor: A surveying apparatus includes an antenna to receive a positioning signal. The surveying apparatus further includes a tilt sensor to obtain a tilt measurement that indicates a degree of tilt of the survey apparatus. The surveying apparatus further includes a processor to obtain a positioning measurement from the positioning signal,... Agent: Perkins Coie LLP

20090267829 - Position monitoring system: Apparatus and systems, as well as methods and articles, may operate to provide a locating system to obtain location data for a device in order to determine whether that device is within a defined perimeter.... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20090267830 - Method for determining the distance between positioning devices and ground monitoring system using the method: A method for determining a distance between positioning devices includes following steps. A ground monitoring system receiving positions of a first positioning device and a second positioning device. The ground monitoring system determining a distance between the first positioning device and the second positioning device according to the positions of... Agent: PCe Industry, Inc. Att. Steven Reiss

20090267833 - Method and apparatus for locating mobile receivers using a wide area reference network for propagating ephemeris: A method and apparatus for distribution and delivery of global positioning system (GPS) satellite telemetry data using a communication link between a central site and a mobile GPS receiver. The central site is coupled to a network of reference satellite receivers that send telemetry data from all satellites to the... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20090267831 - Method of acquiring initial gps signal in broadcasting system and system using the method: A system and method for acquiring an initial Global Positioning System (GPS) signal in a communication system including a terminal. The system includes an Assisted GPS (AGPS) server for generating Acquisition Assistance (AA) data distinguished according to an area based on a pre-set position of each service area, a transmitting... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, LLP

20090267832 - Systems and methods for dynamically determining position: A system and method of dynamically determining a position. At least some of the illustrative embodiments are systems comprising a host processor, a sensor configured to send signals indicative of the position of the system to the host processor, an antenna configured to receive signals from GPS satellites, a GPS... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20090267834 - Event location determination: A method of determining a location of an event of interest by processing signals from a satellite positioning system. The method comprises receiving recorded blocks of data samples of a satellite broadcast including blocks recorded at the approximate location of the event of interest, each block including one or more... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090267835 - Foldable antenna for reconfigurable radar system: The invention provides for phased array radar system that mechanically reconfigures its antenna array from a single faced aperture into two geometrically opposed arrays.... Agent: HowardIPLaw Group

20090267836 - Radio frequency emitter detection and location method and system: A system and method for detecting and locating a radio frequency emitter. A number, N, of receiving units using the same bandwidth, center frequency, and measurement time duration receive signals from the emitter. Higher Order Statistics (HOS) are used to calculate a correlation function between the received signals using one... Agent: Ericsson Inc.

20090267837 - Arrival-time locked loop: This patent disclosure presents circuits, systems and methods to produce a stable signal from a reference signal source. These new inventions are far better than the current technologies to provide a stable signal with less phase noises. This new invention also provides a new approach to analyze the feedback control... Agent: Fox Rothschild LLP

20090267838 - Method and apparatus to automatically trigger position location fixes for external devices: A method and apparatus automatically triggers position location fixes for external devices. In one embodiment of the present invention, a mobile station generates position location data for a position location function in an external device in response to determining that the mobile station is electrically coupled to the external device,... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20090262003 - Subsurface soil injection apparatus with improved delivery device: An apparatus is provided for introducing a discrete, predetermined amount of material into soil at a plurality of predetermined points in the soil which includes a container for holding the material to be introduced into the soil, and tubing in fluid communication with the container at a first end thereof.... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

20090262004 - Apparatus for detecting radar signals and the method thereof: A method for detecting radar signals comprises the steps of: receiving signals detected by a master device; receiving signals detected by a slave device; detecting radar pulses from the signals received by the master device; detecting radar pulses from the signals received by the slave device; and determining radar signals... Agent: Wpat, PC Intellectual Property Attorneys

20090262005 - Moving-entity detection: A system and method for enabling transmission of a stepped-frequency radar signal can involve a first antenna and a second antenna. The system can also involve receiving circuitry configured to receive detected reflections from the antennas and to generate data including information associated with frequency and phase shifts. The system... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090262006 - Moving-entity detection: A system and method for detecting entities based on movement can involve transmission circuitry configured to enable transmission of a stepped-frequency radar signal, an antenna, and receiving circuitry configured to generate data including information associated with frequency and phase shifts between the transmitted signal and the reflections of the transmitted... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090262007 - Vehicle speed detection device with wireless communications capability and methods of use: A portable speed detecting device includes wireless communications capabilities. This allows the portable speed detecting device to obtain information from remote sources via a wireless link. It also facilitates the process of issuing and recording tickets. Further, it can provide an operator with the ability to accomplish a financial transaction... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090262008 - High accuracy radar altimeter using automatic calibration: A method of compensating for component errors within a radar altimeter is described. The method includes periodically switching transmit pulses from a transmit antenna to a programmable delay device, calculating an altitude based on a transmit pulse received from the programmable delay device, comparing the calculated altitude to an expected... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services

20090262009 - Parabolic aerial with a conical diffusion disc for fill level radar: Reflections on the aerial system of a fill level radar result in reduced measuring quality at short range. Small echo signals at short range can thus disappear in the noise. According to one embodiment of the present invention a parabolic aerial for a fill level radar is stated, which parabolic... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20090262010 - Uwb distance measurement system and method of driving the same: The present invention relates to a UWB distance measurement system and method of driving the system. The system includes a reception antenna for receiving a signal, which is output from a transmission unit, is reflected from a target and is incident on the reception antenna, a UWB amplifier for amplifying... Agent: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

20090262011 - Instantaneous radar polarimetry: A radar system and method that employs polarization-time diversity in transmitting signals and concurrently processing received reflections from both polarization modes provides information about the scattering matrix of a target without loss of information. Illustratively, the transmitted signals from Golay pairs, and the processing method employs a complex-conjugate time reversal... Agent: Henry Brendzel

20090262012 - Radiometer and temperature compensation system: A radiometer for measuring temperature data can include a data reader for reading target data associated with a measurement target and generating temperature data based on the target data. A temperature compensation system can include a radiometer with a data reader and one or more data tags placed proximate corresponding... Agent: Intellectual Property Group, Fluke Patents

20090262013 - Ambiguity estimation of gnss signals for three or more carriers: Methods and apparatus are provided for factorized processing of a set of GNSS signal data derived from signals having at least three carriers. A geometry filter is applied to the set of GNSS signal data using a geometry carrier-phase combination to obtain an array of ambiguity estimates for the geometry... Agent: Bruce D. Riter

20090262014 - Method and system for all-in-view coherent gps signal prn codes acquisition and navigation solution determination: A method and system for enabling more robust detection, positioning and time solution using GPS satellite ranging signals based on a simultaneous, all-in-view coherent PRN code signal processing scheme rather than acquisition of GPS signals one at a time. Additionally, a plurality of signal processing operating modes are provided that... Agent: Harness Dickey & Pierce, PLC

20090262015 - Mobile communication device positioning system and method for enhancing position measurement by self learning algorithm: A method and system for determining a location of a mobile communication device for an improvement of a positioning through a self-learning processing algorithm. In the method and system for determining a location of a mobile communication device, a self-learning processing unit batch processes GPS-based positioning results accumulated in a... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090262016 - Supporting the use of a virtual reference station: For supporting the use of virtual reference stations, an apparatus may receive a request to provide virtual measurements on beacon signals that are valid for a virtual reference station, the request including an indication of a desired location of the virtual reference station. The apparatus may further determine an entity... Agent: Ware Fressola Van Der Sluys & Adolphson, LLP

20090262018 - High accuracy satellite receiving controller and associated method: A high accuracy satellite signal receiving controller and associated method is provided. The high accuracy satellite signal receiving controller includes a frequency synthesizer, and an analog-to-digital converter (ADC), a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiving module and a control unit. The frequency synthesizer, coupled to an external non-temperature-compensated crystal oscillator (non-TXCO),... Agent: Wpat, PC

20090262020 - Positioning device, electronic instrument, and storage medium storing program: Signals output from two filters included in a filter section 70 and differing in passband are respectively stored in different memories included in a memory section 80, and a positioning process is performed based on the signal stored in the memory. Specifically, the signal strength of a received signal is... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20090262021 - Positioning device, positioning control method, positioning control program, and computer-readable recording medium having positioning control program recorded thereon: A positioning device comprising: a peak frequency determination section which determines a peak frequency which is a reception frequency corresponding to a maximum correlation value of a specific positioning base code replica and a positioning base code carried on a radio wave from a specific transmission source; a reference frequency... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20090262019 - Pseudorange calculation method, position calculation method, computer-readable recording medium, and position calculation device: A pseudorange calculation method for calculating a pseudorange in a position calculation device includes: passing a received signal received from a satellite for position calculation through a first filter; passing the received signal through a second filter having a different phase characteristic from that of the first filter; calculating a... Agent: GlobalIPCounselors, LLP

20090262017 - Systems and methods for fast gnss signals acquisition: Systems and methods for acquiring global navigation satellite system (GNSS) signals. An incoming signal is multiplied with a time shifted spreading code replica and converted to zero (or very low) nominal frequency. The converted signal is filtered and downsampled by a large scale. A signal power metric and frequency offset... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Patent Services