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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120105285 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ESTIMATING ANGLE OF ARRIVAL IN REAL TIME An apparatus for estimating an angle of arrival includes: a plurality of direction synthesizing units shifting the phase of each of a plurality of signals received by an array antenna such that the angle of arrival of each of the received signals is changed by a predete... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20110309981 | COMBINED DIRECTION FINDER AND RADAR SYSTEM, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT A system for determining a propagation direction of a received electromagnetic wave includes a linear phased array of receiving antenna elements and a processing unit for processing signals received by the receiving antenna elements. The processor is arranged for genera... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110304507 | COMPACT SINGLE-APERTURE ANTENNA AND DIRECTION-FINDING NAVIGATION SYSTEM A radio-based navigation system uses a small multi-mode direction-finding antenna and a direction-finding receiver to determine platform position, velocity, attitude and time while simultaneously providing protection against narrowband and broadband sources of interfere... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110285590 | Determining Spatial Orientation Information of a Body from Multiple Electromagnetic Signals A method for determining a spatial orientation of a body, including receiving, by receiving equipment located with the body, at least three electromagnetic signal sets, each of the received signal sets having been transmitted by a different one of at least three separat... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110254736 | MANIFOLD CALIBRATION FOR A COMMUNICATION SYSTEM A method and apparatus for determining stream weights is provided herein. During operation, an uplink direction of arrival (DOA) and a downlink direction of departure (DOD) calibration procedure is implemented using uplink signals and GPS information from a subset of mo... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110181470 | Geosecurity methods and devices using geotags derived from noisy location data from multiple sources In a geo-security system, a device receives RF signals from multiple distinct classes of RF communication systems and extracts location-dependent signal parameters. A current geotag is computed from the parameters by fuzzy extractors involving quantization of the parame... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110181472 | INCOMING WAVE CLASSIFYING AND DISTINGUISHING DEVICE, INCOMING WAVE CLASSIFYING AND DISTINGUISHING METHOD, ORIGINATING POSITION ESTIMATING DEVICE AND ORIGINATING POSITION ESTIMATING METHOD Provided are a device and a method that can classify an incoming wave and can correctly distinguish the position of an originating device, even in a multipath environment. A principal vertically polarized wave arrival direction sensing unit (104-1) and a p... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110181471 | ADAPTIVE ANTENNA RADIO COMMUNICATION DEVICE A device for estimating a direction-of-arrival of a radio wave, the device comprising an array antenna including a plurality of antenna elements for receiving a high frequency signal, a demultiplexer for demultiplexing the received high frequency signal for each of the ... | 07/28/2011 |
| 20110133987 | Apparatus and Method for a Directional Finder The invention provides a determination of direction to a remote object which omnidirectionally transmits a signal. The invention includes a handheld directional and omnidirectional antenna at a user's location and a handheld circuit coupled to the antennas to determine ... | 06/09/2011 |
| 20110057839 | Method and apparatus for passive geolocation using synthetic-aperture processing Using in-phase and quadrature components of a received signal, spatial and temporal information is utilized to generate a maximum likelihood coefficient from the measured data to geolocate an emitter of unknown frequency. In one embodiment an iso-Doppler contour is gene... | 03/10/2011 |
| 20110050502 | Three Dimensional RF Search System An RF signal detection process by incorporating direction detection of the RF signal along with energy detection to arrive at a signal of interest (SOI). The SOI is identified by matching direction detections and energy detections. Low-level and noise-like signals can b... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20110018766 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ESTIMATING LOCATION OF A WIRELESS STATION USING MULTI-BEAM TRANSMISSION A method and apparatus for estimating location of wireless stations in a wireless communication network are provided. An estimation of a bearing angle of a wireless station from a reference point of a multi-beam antenna pattern is made based on a plurality of beaming an... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20100321240 | DIRECTION FINDING OF WIRELESS DEVICES Techniques are disclosed that allow for the detection, identification, and direction finding of wireless emitters in a given multipath environment. For example, the techniques can be used to detect and identify a line of bearing (LOB) to an IEEE 802.11 emitter in a buil... | 12/23/2010 |
| 20100309056 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SCANNING RF CHANNELS UTILIZING LEAKY WAVE ANTENNAS Methods and systems for scanning RF channels utilizing leaky wave antennas (LWAs) are disclosed and may include configuring a receiving angle of a plurality of LWAs in a wireless device to receive RF signals at a desired starting angle. The receiving angle may be swept ... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100309055 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PASSIVELY LOCATING RADAR EMISSIONS FROM TRANSMITTERS Systems and methods are presented for passive location of transmitters in which two or more receivers time stamp received signals from target transmitters and the time stamped data for each target signal of interest is isolated to identify a peak power time of arrival f... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100302102 | Angle of arrival and/or range estimation within a wireless communication device Angle of arrival and/or range estimation within a wireless communication device. Appropriate processing of communications received by a wireless communication device is performed to determine the angle of arrival of the communication (e.g., with respect to some coordina... | 12/02/2010 |
| 20100283678 | METHOD FOR SIGNAL SOURCE MONITORING AND POSITIONING IN A RADIO NETWORK The present invention discloses a method for positioning signal sources in a wireless network, e.g. in a WLAN or WiMAX network. The located signal source might be a end user, an interfering source or a base station. At least one monitoring station is placed in the netwo... | 11/11/2010 |
| 20100259450 | INDOOR POSITIONING SYSTEM AND METHOD A method, including: receiving, at an apparatus, first and second radio signals from a first location; discriminating the first and second radio signals, in order to estimate a bearing from the first location; and estimating, using the bearing and constraint information... | 10/14/2010 |
| 20100194641 | Electromagnetic Radiation Source Locating System An electromagnetic radiation source locating system including an electromagnetic radiation sensor including an antenna configured to detect a radiant energy transmission. A position detector is in communication with the controller and is configured to detect the positio... | 08/05/2010 |
| 20100141530 | DIPOLE ARRAY WITH REFLECTOR AND INTEGRATED ELECTRONICS A dipole antenna array comprising a ground plane, at least one dipole antenna including an active antenna element and a grounded antenna element, at least one reflector and integrated electronics, wherein the active antenna element is isolated from the ground plane and ... | 06/10/2010 |
| 20100090900 | SIGNAL WAVE ARRIVAL ANGLE MEASURING DEVICE A signal wave arrival angle measuring device includes: an observation data vector generation section generating an observation data vector necessary for an angle measurement of a signal wave from an electrical signal having been converted at a sensor group converting th... | 04/15/2010 |
| 20100019971 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR POSITIONING MOBILE UNITS BASED ON ANGLE MEASUREMENTS A method and system for positioning mobile units using angle measurements taken by neighboring mobile units is disclosed. A selected mobile unit and mobile units in the vicinity of the selected mobile unit are selectively instructed to measure and report information rel... | 01/28/2010 |
| 20100007555 | Compact single-aperture antenna and direction-finding navigation system An exemplary radio-based navigation system uses a small multimode direction-finding antenna and a direction-finding receiver capable of determining platform position, velocity, attitude, and time while simultaneously providing protection against narrowband and broadband... | 01/14/2010 |
| 20090295640 | RADIOWAVE DIRECTION DETECTOR AND ANTENNA MOVING DEVICE The radiowave direction detector has a radiowave direction detecting unit detects an arrival direction of the desired radio wave, a converting unit including a plurality of electromagnetic-to-electric converters to convert the desired radio wave, and a computing unit fo... | 12/03/2009 |
| 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 ... | 11/05/2009 |
| 20090251363 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LOCATING ITEMS AND PLACES A locator includes a base unit and a handheld unit. The base unit, which is typically stationary, includes an FSK transceiver and printed circuit antennas. The handheld unit, which is typically mobile, also includes an FSK transceiver and printed circuit antennas. The h... | 10/08/2009 |
| 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 estim... | 10/01/2009 |
| 20090140941 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR UPDATING ANTENNA BEAM ANGLES OF A DIRECTIONAL ANTENNA OF WIRELESS DEVICE The invention relates to a method for updating antenna beam angles of one or more directional antennas of a wireless device to communicate with a plurality of other wireless devices, each one of the antenna beam angles being associated with one of the plurality of other... | 06/04/2009 |
| 20090109095 | LOCATION ESTIMATION SYSTEM, METHOD AND PROGRAM A location estimation method using label propagation. The achieved location estimation method is robust to variations in radio signal strengths and is highly accurate by using the q-norm (0<q<1), especially, for calculating the similarities among radio signal stre... | 04/30/2009 |
| 20090102718 | Method and Apparatus for Enhancing the Detection of Weak Emitters A Method and Apparatus for Enhancing the Detection of Weak Emitters provide an enhanced method to eliminate the fake hits of a moving weak signal detection system. The method and apparatus have the abilities stated in the previous U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/... | 04/23/2009 |
| 20090079617 | DETECTION AND RANGING APPARTUS AND DETECTION AND RANGING METHOD In a detection and ranging apparatus that performs direction-of-arrival estimation using a sensor array and that enlarges an effective aperture using a plurality of transmitting sensors, adverse effects associated with time division switching are eliminated, achieving h... | 03/26/2009 |
| 20090015479 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ALL-POLARIZATION DIRECTION FINDING Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and apparatus for all-polarization direction finding. The method and apparatus generally include acquiring measurements at least partially corresponding to an emitted signal and generated utilizing a blind signal ext... | 01/15/2009 |
| 20090009394 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ESTIMATING DIRECTIONS-OF-ARRIVAL IN LOW POWER OR LOW SAMPLE SIZE SCENARIOS The present invention relates to a method and a system for determining the direction of arrival of one or multiple radio or acoustic waves and, more particularly, to such a method and system especially advantageous in situations where the number of available observation... | 01/08/2009 |
| 20080303714 | Compact single-aperture antenna and navigation system An exemplary radio-based navigation system uses a single-aperture multimode direction-finding antenna capable of determining platform position, velocity, attitude, and time while simultaneously providing protection against narrowband and broadband sources of interferenc... | 12/11/2008 |
| 20080303718 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING DIRECTION OF ARRIVAL INFORMATION TO FORM A THREE-DIMENSIONAL BEAM USED BY A TRANSCEIVER A wireless communication method and antenna system for determining the direction of arrival (DOA) of received signals in azimuth and elevation, (i.e., in three dimensions), to form a beam for transmitting and receiving signals. The system includes two antenna arrays, ea... | 12/11/2008 |
| 20080266177 | High Resolution, Arbitrary-Even-Order Direction Finding Method and Device Method of high-resolution direction finding to an arbitrary even order, 2q (q>2), for an array comprising N narrowband antennas each receiving the contribution from P sources characterized in that the algebraic properties of a matrix of cumulants of order 2q, C2q,x... | 10/30/2008 |
| 20080231512 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR UTILIZATION OF LOCATION DETERMINATION SIGNAL SAMPLES IN NOISY ENVIRONMENTS An apparatus for location determination includes a location determination receiver configured to receive location determination signals, a location determination signal quality assessment component configured to assess a quality of received location determination signal... | 09/25/2008 |
| 20080224930 | Methods for locating transmitters using backward ray tracing According to a method for localizing a transmitter inside a building, a transmitter emits rays which undergo multiple reflections with the walls, ceilings and floors of the building. Each of K receivers receives rays from the transmitter, and the receivers estimates the... | 09/18/2008 |
| 20080174484 | Location Recording System The present invention discloses a communication system and method for determining and recording the geographical location of an object attached with a short range wireless device, over a wide area, in a vicinity of a radio beacon that can be located by a remote control ... | 07/24/2008 |
| 20080150804 | PERFORMANCE AND POWER MANAGEMENT IN DIRECTION OF ARRIVAL DETERMINATION BY UTILIZING SENSOR INFORMATION A system for enhancing the performance of a wireless communication device (WCD) while executing a direction of arrival (DoA) estimation. The performance may be improved through device management, and may include the collection of information from one or more sensors ins... | 06/26/2008 |
