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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7864106 | Pulse doppler coherent radar or ultrasound detection method and system for SNR enhancement A method and system for SNR enhancement in pulse-Doppler coherent target detection for applications in the fields of radar and ultrasound. In accordance with the method of the invention, complex signals are obtained for each of two or more sub-intervals of the time-... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7773028 | Method and system for concatenation of radar pulses A system and method are described for generating waveforms for use in radar and sonar systems. The system includes waveform generation circuitry a waveform generator and an up-conversion module. The waveform generator generates concatenated pulse waveforms at an IF ... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7746270 | Radar apparatus and radar tuning method A radar apparatus transmits a pulse signal including pulses having at least two different pulselengths in a specific transmit pulse pattern and receives a returning echo signal through a single antenna. A tuning voltage setting timing generator generates a timing of... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7466261 | Method and system for radio detection and ranging intrusion detection system A RADAR system including a set of RADAR apparatuses is disclosed. Each apparatus includes a processor, a pulse unit in signal communication with the processor, a waveform signal generator in signal communication with the pulse unit, and a set of radar antennas in si... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7420504 | Method of operating a multibeam radar A method of operating a multibeam radar carried on a platform flying a mission over a prescribed flight path to obtain images of a plurality of target areas, the beams of said radar being the result of respective transmit pulses and beam returns being received by re... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7327305 | Process for the evaluation of signals in an SAR/MTI pulsed radar system The invention relates to a process for the evaluating a received signal of an SAR/MTI pulsed radar system that transmits SAR and MTI pulses with respective definable pulse repetition frequency PRF_SAR and PRF_MTI, such that the received signal is a superimposition c... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7327307 | Radar system with adaptive waveform processing and methods for adaptively controlling the shape of a radar ambiguity function An adaptive waveform radar system transmits a selected waveform of a family of related waveforms and either phase shifts or bit shifts the radar return signal for correlating with the other waveforms of the family. In some embodiments, phase shifting may be performe... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7317417 | Methods for detection and tracking of targets The present invention relates to active sensor applications, and more particularly is directed to efficient systems and methods for detection and tracking of one or more targets. The invention provides a method for receiving signals reflected from one or more target... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7304604 | Radar sensor and method for operating a radar sensor In a radar sensor, a continuous microwave signal is passed through an RF switch which is periodically controlled by a pulse signal. The pulse signal is frequency modulated in such a way that the spectrum of the pulse signal is expanded without decorrelation occurrin... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7259713 | Ranging systems A continuous wave ranging system, comprising a modulator 2 for modulating an r.f. carrier wave in accordance with a pseudo random code, a transmitting antenna 5 for radiating the modulated signal towards a target, a receiving antenna 6 and recei... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7245252 | Method for determining the distance between two transmitting and receiving stations In a method for determining the distance between two transmitting and receiving stations, a transmission signal is generated in each station and is transmitted as a series of microwave pulses having a predefined pulse repetition frequency to the other respective sta... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7236120 | Ultra-wideband detector systems for detecting moisture in building walls A non-destructive detection method and system enables detecting a moisture patch located inside a building wall or the like. A transmitter generates a series of ultra-wideband pulses while an ultra-wideband antenna unit, preferably in the form of an antenna array in... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7232111 | Control arrangement for an automatic residential faucet A hands-free faucet comprises a spout, a valve, a position sensitive device, and a logical control. The position sensitive device is positioned on the user's side of the spout, and has a trigger zone and an extended zone, each defined in part by a distance range fro... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7233279 | Method and device for distance measurement by pulse radar In order to provide the method and the device for distance measurement by pulse radar that securely eliminates the false echo from the distance over the detectable limit determined by the pulse generation cycle, the pulse radar comprises the pulse signal sending uni... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7215278 | Radar frequency hopping Apparatus and methods for adjusting or “hopping” the center frequency or the pulse repetition frequency of a radar system improve the co-locatability of multiple radars commonly located in a region. In a Time Domain Downconversion (TDDC) or Ultra-Wideband (UWB) ... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7199747 | Generating a fine time offset using a SiGe pulse generator A method and apparatus for generating short electronic pulses using a modified differential trigger that is partly an analogue sinusoidal voltage and partly a selectable, DC voltage. The differential trigger is applied to a differential base band pulse generator hav... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7199752 | Phased null radar A method for reducing the interference between a source transmitting pulses and equipments having nominal bandwidths which are outside the nominal bandwidth of the transmitted pulses, but which respond to sideband energy of the pulses. Phase perturbations are applie... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7167125 | Pulse radar arrangement A pulse radar system has a high-frequency source, which supplies a continuous high-frequency signal and is connected on the one side with a transmission-side pulse modulator and on the other side with two separately controllable pulse modulators in at least one rece... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7158077 | Radar device and method for suppressing interference with a radar device A radar device is described having an arrangement to generate a carrier signal having a carrier frequency fT, an arrangement to generate pulses having a pulse repetition rate fPW, an arrangement to split the carrier signal between a transmissio... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7151481 | Method for detecting targets and determining their distance via an HPRF radar system A method for detecting targets and determining their distance by means of an HPRF radar system including a transmitter for transmitting bursts having a preselectable number Z of transmission pulses and a preselectable pulse repetition frequency PRF and a receiver fo... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7136013 | Radio-wave radar system and adaptive cruise control system In a radio wave radar system using a two-frequency CW modulation method, it is possible to detect a distance between a host vehicle and a forward vehicle and to realize a stable ACC following travel, even in a condition in which the relative speed is 0. By combining... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7136014 | System and method for estimating the azimuth pointing angle of a moving monopulse antenna An invention is provided for determining the azimuth pointing angle of a moving monopulse antenna. Pulses of energy are broadcast at the surface of a planetary body. Reflected signals are received from the surface of the planetary body using a plurality of feeds. A ... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7126526 | Phased null radar A method for reducing the interference between a source transmitting pulses and equipments having nominal bandwidths which are outside the nominal bandwidth of the transmitted pulses, but which respond to sideband energy of the pulses. Phase perturbations are applie... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7109916 | Device for, in particular bistatic radar applications In a device for bistatic radar applications, at least two spaced-apart radar sensors having separate carrier-frequency oscillators are provided, which do not require phase synchronization. The pulse modulation is carried out time-synchronously for all transmitter an... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7106242 | High range resolution radar system Described herein is a method and apparatus for improving high range resolution of a radar system. The method comprises phase shifting a radar pulse to be transmitted at substantially the radar transmission frequency and phase shifting the received radar pulse at sub... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7095363 | Pulse radar apparatus A pulse radar apparatus uses different frequencies, for example, frequencies one of which is a multiple or a submultiple of the other for a signal which becomes a reference of a control pulse for controlling a gate operation for a reception signal and a signal which... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7081848 | Orthogonal pulse range ambiguity resolution A method for active ranging, such as radar, which sequentially transmits pulses of mutually different waveforms. Receive processing is performed concurrently for all the transmitted waveforms during each interpulse interval, to thereby provide range ambiguity resolu... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7081850 | Coherent detection of ultra wideband waveforms A general purpose system and method for transmitting and coherently detecting UWB waveforms is predicated on the formation of conjugate pair of UWB waveforms. The in-phase and conjugate quadrature waveforms are orthogonal to each other and have the same power spectr... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7064704 | Apparatus for radar A radar transmits electromagnetic energy in pulse repetition intervals and receives reflections from objects in range gates including Doppler filters. The radar approves desirable ambiguous echoes and suppresses ambiguous echoes of no interest or that interfere with... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7064703 | Methods and apparatus for randomly modulating radar altimeters A method for randomly phase modulating a radar altimeter is described. The method includes momentarily applying a signal from a random noise source to an amplifier, applying an output of the amplifier to a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO), applying an output of t... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7053814 | RF lightwave coding system for radar pulse compression An apparatus for preparing a RF radar transmit waveform and for decoding RF return waveforms comprising: a RF-lightwave encoder and a decoding preprocessor to phase-encode the RF radar transmit waveform and partially decode the return signal, the encoder including s... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7053818 | Method for simple and multipurpose tracking A method for measuring distance and relative speed between two points, one of which is stationary. The method employs a radio signal modulating a periodic pulse train sent from stationary point to a movable point and simultaneously being retransmitted back to the st... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7023377 | Noise modulated remote distance measurement The invention relates to remote distance measurement by means of a transmitted noise modulated probing signal (E), whereby at least one of a distance (Y(t)) and a velocity (V(t)) in relation to a signal transceiver (200) is determined. The probing of signal (... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7019683 | Shipping container security system A security system senses intrusions into a shipping container through the opening of doors, cutting an opening, or removing the doors from their hinges. Intrusion information is transmitted to a remote receiver without interrogation, thereby reducing power consumpti... | 03/28/2006 |
| 6989781 | Short-range radar system with variable pulse duration A short-range radar system includes short-range radar sensor means and means (41) for HF-impulse generator for the sensor means. The means for HF-impulse generation are embodied for emitting impulses with adjustable pulse duration (51, 53). ... | 01/24/2006 |
| 6975264 | Signal separating system A signal separating system 1 comprises a frequency conversion element 3, a dynamic filter component 4 with associated coherent stop slot and non-coherent passband, optionally a signal wave enhancer 7 with bypass, and a frequency reconvers... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6956522 | Pulse radar system A pulse radar system has a high-frequency source, which supplies a continuous high-frequency signal and is connected on the one side to a transmission-side pulse modulator and on the other side to at least one mixer in at least one receive path. A pulse modulator is... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6940449 | Method for eliminating dummy objects short-range pulse radar sensors In order to create a method for eliminating dummy objects in short-range pulse radar sensors, in which radar pulses are transmitted at a defined frequency, and the time until they are reflected by an object and received again is measured, and besides the transmitted... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6937183 | Object detecting method and object detector Beams are irradiated in three directions by switching an irradiation direction of a mainlobe of an antenna by stages, and an echo is received from a detection object obtained in the mainlobe or a sidelobe in each irradiation direction. Then, reflection power intensi... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6930631 | Sensor front-end with phase coding capability A sensor front end for an electronic radar sensor is disclosed that provides for a lower parts count while providing technical functionality by using multifunction parts, i.e., parts that are used both in transmitting and receiving. The sensor front end includes a c... | 08/16/2005 |
