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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8031118 | Phase correction apparatus, DVOR apparatus, and phase correction method A phase correction apparatus comprising a storing means configured to store a phase correction value associated with each of a plurality of transmission antennas in which the phase correction value is calculated according to an electrical length of a signal path ext... | 10/04/2011 |
| 7952520 | DVOR monitor device, and DVOR monitor method A monitor antenna receives radio waves transmitted from a Doppler very high frequency omnidirectional radio range (DVOR) device and includes a carrier signal and a subcarrier signal, orthogonal detectors shift a phase of a signal of each subcarrier component by a ph... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7302267 | Apparatus and method for estimating a velocity of a mobile terminal in a mobile communication system A Base Station (BS) apparatus for estimating a velocity of a Mobile Station (MS) in a mobile communication system includes a channel estimator for performing channel estimation according to a velocity band, receiving a wireless channel signal from the MS, and perfor... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7096120 | Method and arrangement for guiding a user along a target path An audio-based guide arrangement is provided for guiding a user along a target path by the use of virtual audio beacons. The user's current location is sensed and compared to the target path. Sounds are fed to the user, for example through stereo headphones, to simu... | 08/22/2006 |
| 7068742 | Method and apparatus for resolving multipath components for wireless location finding A method and apparatus that provides an accurate estimate of the time and amplitude of arrival of the first arriving overlapping multipath components (rays) in wireless locating finding systems. Overlapping fading multipath components for mobile-positioning are reso... | 06/27/2006 |
| 6996420 | Radio communication system, mobile terminal unit thereof, and azimuth determining method Disclosed are a mobile station unit which can obtain azimuth information with a simple construction and a radio communication system including the mobile terminal unit. According to the present invention, in a terminal station, an arrival direction obtaining section... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6944140 | Beam hopping self addressed packet switched communication system with multiple beam array antenna A data routing subsystem (200) for a communication satellite includes an inbound module (602) that accepts demodulated uplink data. The inbound module (602) includes a routing table (702) that stores queue tags (714) specifying dow... | 09/13/2005 |
| 5878330 | Satellite communications system including automatic frequency control An automatic frequency control system for use in satellite communications is provided that is pre-programmed with an initial acquisition Doppler offset frequency. The system includes a search mode for accurately determining the satellite's initial frequen... | 03/02/1999 |
| 5635941 | Method and apparatus for feeding over-modulated message signals to antennas of an antenna array A feeding method and device, particularly for a Doppler VOR system, and to a Doppler VOR system using such a feeding device. The feeding method performs a blending function, which is an approximation of the sinX/X function limitedly to the three central l... | 06/03/1997 |
| 4920348 | Method and apparatus for signal modulation and detection The disclosure relates to methods and apparatus for separating radio signals arriving from different directions and for multiplexing signals intended for receivers dispersed in different directions. The methods and apparatus employ a plurality of antennas... | 04/24/1990 |
| 4644358 | Stem orientation measurement apparatus An apparatus to confirm an orientation of the stem of ship by making use of a satellite included in the Global Positioning System. Radio wave signals from the satellite are received by a directional or omnidirectional antenna and the phase difference betw... | 02/17/1987 |
| 4485384 | Microwave system The new invention is a description of a double sideband commutated Doppler microwave system for landing aircraft or spacecraft. It is capable of providing angular information in elevation and azimuth by the measurement of a Doppler frequency in an airborn... | 11/27/1984 |
| 4417250 | Monitoring device for a radio navigation system of the doppler VOR type A device for monitoring a Doppler VOR system emitting sinusoidal signals at a frequency of 30 Hz, one called "reference" and the other called "variable" whose phase varies with respect to that of the first signal, comprises at least one sensor close to th... | 11/22/1983 |
| 4160960 | Power-dividing and modulating arrangement A power divider and modulator is disclosed comprising a HF signal source which supplies a carrier signal to a pair of 1/4λ transformers each terminated with a variable impedance, whose impedance value is controlled by a modulating signal from a signal so... | 07/10/1979 |
| 4151529 | Radio beacon for aerial navigation system An air-navigational beacon, designed to simulate an imaginary circular ben with a multiplicity of pairs of diametrically opposite dipoles excited in cyclic succession, comprises an array of stationary dipole pairs disposed along lines parallel to a given... | 04/24/1979 |
| 4106023 | Navigation aid system An apparatus or method, for characterizing carrier waves according to the direction in which the carrier waves are transmitted or received, comprises radiating or receiving from a position which is moved repetitively along a line of motion having a predet... | 08/08/1978 |
| 4104636 | Doppler reference antenna with phased centerline emphasis In a doppler radionavigation system wherein a transmitted signal has opposite frequency coding during alternating time intervals, a reference antenna is provided which has different radiation modes during the alternating time intervals. In a preferred emb... | 08/01/1978 |
| 4063242 | Doppler navigation system with reference signal source diversity A Doppler Radio Navigation beacon with multi-element reference and main commutated arrays. The reference signal is programmed among the reference array elements irregularly to provide spatial diversity to the reference signal to eliminate or substantially... | 12/13/1977 |
| 4035804 | Simulated Doppler navigational system with second order diversity A simulated Doppler navigation beacon system providing second order spatial diversity with respect to excitation of its commutated 2-dimensional main (coordinate) array and a linear reference array. For elevation measurement, the main array excitation is ... | 07/12/1977 |
| 4017860 | Radio navigation beacon A Doppler Navigation Beacon incorporating the moving reference concept in a planar antenna matrix with programmed excitation, replacing the linear commutated array of the prior art to provide vertical diversity for azimuth guidance use and horizontal dive... | 04/12/1977 |
| 3953854 | Doppler radio navigation beacon system with means for reducing multipath signal effects A Doppler Navigation ground beacon antenna commutating arrangement in which the primary scan program radio frequency and reference radio frequency signals are both applied to the antenna elements in mutually opposite commutation directions. The two signal... | 04/27/1976 |
