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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8154437 | Traveling direction vector reliability determination method and traveling direction vector reliability determination device There is provided a traveling direction vector reliability determination method in which reliability of a traveling direction vector of another vehicle is calculated so as to increase reliability of a collision prediction. The traveling direction vector reliability ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8138966 | Vehicular traffic surveillance doppler radar system A vehicular traffic surveillance Doppler radar system and method for use of the same are disclosed. In one embodiment, the system comprises a modulation circuit portion for generating modulated FM signals. An antenna circuit portion transmits the modulated FM signal... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8134493 | System and method for precision geolocation utilizing multiple sensing modalities A system and method for determining the geolocation of a signal emitter moving at an unknown velocity by combining signal data of a target detection platform (e.g., a radar system) and signal data collected by two or more moving signal collection platforms (e.g., RF... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8115670 | Method of verifiably detecting the speed of a vehicle A method of measuring the speed of a vehicle wherein the speed and the distance of the vehicle from a radar system and/or the measuring angle of the vehicle relative to the radar axis is determined by means of a radar measurement so as to characterize or determine t... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8102308 | Radar apparatus, and measurement method used in the radar apparatus The present invention provides a radar apparatus capable of changing a characteristic of filter processing while considering also a relative velocity of an object. A measurement section measures a relative position and a relative velocity of an object such as anothe... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8018372 | Spread spectrum radar apparatus, method for determining virtual image, and method for suppressing virtual image The spread spectrum radar apparatus in the present invention (i) includes: a transmission code generator (110); a reception code generator (121) generating a reception code obtained by delaying a transmission code; a spread modulator (112) sprea... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7986261 | Collision prediction system and collision predicting method A collision prediction system includes a collision face determining unit that determines a collision face of the own vehicle which is presumed to collide with another vehicle, based on a travelling direction of the other vehicle relative to the own vehicle at an est... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7928898 | Method for determining the kinematic state of an object, by evaluating sensor measured values In a method for determining the kinematic state of an object by evaluating a sequence of discrete polar measured values of a sensor, the polar measurements rm, αm are converted to Cartesian coordinates and subsequently scaled to Cartesian pseu... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7864102 | Vehicular traffic surveillance doppler radar system A vehicular traffic surveillance Doppler radar system and method for use of the same are disclosed. In one embodiment, the system comprises a modulation circuit portion for generating modulated FM signals. An antenna circuit portion transmits the modulated FM signal... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7812759 | Radar apparatus for detection position information of a target by receiving reflection signals reflected by the target with a plurality of reception antennas A radar apparatus includes a DBF process portion for grouping reception signals over plural channels into plural groups and performing DBF on each group, a summing portion for summing amplitudes or power of frequency components obtained by the DBF performed by the D... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7764223 | Radar apparatus Marine radar apparatus propagates groups of three pulses A, B, C of the same amplitude but different widths, the shorter pulse enabling detection of close range targets and the longer pulses enabling detection of longer range targets. The pulses are encoded differen... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7755535 | Radar system comprising at least two spatially separated antenna units A radar system comprising at least two spatially separated antenna units, each comprising one antenna. Each antenna unit comprising a signal generator connected to an antenna constitutes a transmitting antenna unit, and each antenna comprising a receiver connected t... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7692574 | Radar apparatus A radar apparatus can improve detection performance of a target, obtain high resolution without changing antenna construction, and suppress calculation load. A target detection unit, which calculates a distance, a relative speed, or a direction of the target based o... | 04/06/2010 |
| 7667637 | System and method for radar detection of an object There is provided a radar system for detection of one or more objects. The radar system comprises a radar wave transmitter for simultaneously transmitting a CW radar signal and a FM-CW or MF radar signal, and a first radar wave receiver for receiving CW and FM-CW or... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7598904 | Method and measuring device for determining a relative velocity The present invention relates to a method and device for determining a relative velocity between a host (100) and a target (102). The present invention relates in particular to a method of the type that can be used in motor vehicle radar systems and sp... | 10/06/2009 |
| 7532154 | Frequency modulation radar device The frequency modulation radar device includes a transmitting unit (5), M receiving units for receiving a reflected signal as M channels, a mixing unit (7) for mixing the transmitting signal with the M received signals to obtain beat signals for the M ... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7495604 | Electronic scanning radar apparatus A sampled beat signal is cut out into two or more short time data in a time direction concerning each antenna component. From a frequency spectrum of the short time data, an interference element frequency of an interference wave is detected. From the interference el... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7436356 | Method of cross-correlation and continuous wave interference suppression for GPS signal and associated GPS receiver A method for processing weak indoor signals in presence of cross-correlation or continuous wave interference and associated GPS receiver are provided. The method comprises providing a two-dimensional delay-Doppler accumulated power pattern having a plurality of accu... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7425917 | Radar for detecting the velocity of a target A radar including a target measurement component, a differential velocity calculator and an overall velocity determination portion. The target measurement component transmits and receives an electromagnetic wave over a detection range repeatedly at measurement inter... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7423576 | System and method for radar tracking using communications packets According to the invention, IEEE 802.15.4a packets are used for communications, ranging and passive radar (detecting changes/motions, tracking objects in the environment) functionality. Changes and motions in the environment are detected by exploiting the specific p... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7423579 | Transmit-receive FM-CW radar apparatus A transmit-receive FM-CW radar apparatus according to one mode of the invention comprises: a mixer for downconverting an IF signal; a switch provided on the input side of the mixer; and a switch controller for controlling the switch on and off in different modes and... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7417581 | System and method for intrusion detection using a time domain radar array A system and method for highly selective intrusion detection using a sparse array of time modulated ultra wideband (TM-UWB) radars. Two or more TM-UWB radars are arranged in a sparse array around the perimeter of a building. Each TM-UWB radar transmits ultra wideban... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7409294 | Traffic alert police radar An enhanced police Doppler direction sensing radar detects possibly dangerous traffic conditions during certain vehicle maneuvers such as U-turns and returns to travel after roadside stops. By monitoring a host or primary vehicle speed, speed transitions, transmissi... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7400290 | Vehicle radar system having multiple operating modes A vehicle radar system includes a processing system which operates in one of a plurality of operating modes which are selected based upon an environment (or changes to an environment) surrounding the vehicle radar system. In one exemplary embodiment, the vehicle rad... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7394422 | Interferometer-type radar A transmitter for transmitting signals to targets and a receiver for receiving signals reflected from targets are included. The transmitter outputs CW signals for detecting direction and velocity of the target. The receiver performs: a function of receiving signals ... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7391355 | Single platform geolocation method and apparatus A geolocation system and method uses a single platform for determining a Doppler measurement set of a targeted aircraft or signal of interest. The electronic warfare aircraft and the ejected aircraft expendables technology device determine the Doppler measurement se... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7391360 | Method for locating a detection microchip A method is described for locating a detection microchip that transmits a detection signal, which is received and evaluated by a reader. The current distance between the reader and the detection microchip is determined from a run-time dependent feature of the receiv... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7379015 | First responder positioning apparatus A positioning system for tracking the location of a first responder emergency worker. The system includes mobile enabler units and a personnel badge having a ranging transponder. Two enabler units can use two-way ranging signals, a prescribed turn around time and di... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7372396 | Transmit-receive FM-CW radar apparatus A transmit-receive FM-CW radar apparatus according to one mode of the invention comprises: a mixer for downconverting an IF signal; a switch provided on the input side of the mixer; and a switch controller for controlling the switch on and off in different modes and... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373237 | Speed regulator with distance regulating function A speed controller for motor vehicles is provided, the vehicle having a distance regulating function, a locating system for detecting locating data for objects that are in front of the vehicle, and an evaluation device for determining whether a located object needs ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7362270 | System and method to perform network node localization training using a mobile node A method and system for determining a location of at least one stationary node of a wireless network, which includes providing a predetermined path within a geographic space of the wireless network, prior to localization, moving a mobile node along the predetermined... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7358888 | System and method for intrusion detection using a time domain radar array A system and method for highly selective intrusion detection using a sparse array of time modulated ultra wideband (TM-UWB) radars. Two or more TM-UWB radars are arranged in a sparse array around the perimeter of a building. Each TM-UWB radar transmits ultra wideban... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7345621 | Real-time multistatic radar signal processing system and method A real-time signal processing engine robustly detects, localizes, tracks and classifies ground targets based on radar signals from a multistatic radar system. The system differentiates between different targets based on an optimized cost function, which can include ... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7327308 | Programmable method and test device for generating target for FMCW radar A test device for a frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar is provided. The test device has a central control unit for monitoring the FMCW radar. When the FMCW radar transmits a frequency modulated continuous signal to search for a target, the central cont... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7321330 | Ball measuring apparatus The present invention provides a ball measuring apparatus capable of measuring a trajectory of a ball from a hitting position to a landing position, the landing position and a stop position. A ball measuring apparatus 100 according to a first embodiment inclu... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7315276 | Beam compression radar A concept is described for broadening the beam of a phased array radar antenna to provide continuous illumination of all radar targets within the search space, and this beam is compressed upon reception to realize the angular resolution that is possible with the ant... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7301496 | Radar apparatus In an FM-CW radar apparatus which determines the azimuth to a target by a phase monopulse technique, an abnormal value resulting from the presence of multiple targets is detected. Three receiving antennas are arranged at spacings of 5λ/4 and 6λ/4, respectively, an... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7295148 | Radar system with RCS correction There is provided a radar system having an input amplitude correcting function in which even when a large reflection wave exceeding a dynamic range of an A/D converter is inputted, an RCS calculation without a time lag can be executed at high precision, high reliabi... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7295147 | Sensor arrangement and method for regulating the distance of motor vehicles A sensor system on motor vehicles for locating objects in front of the vehicle, wherein at least two sensors, each having a locating depth of at least 50 m, are arranged in such a way on both sides of longitudinal center axis of the vehicle that their locating angul... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7286955 | Ship proximity measurement display system including the remotely viewable billboard and bridge display with data communication and attachment framing This invention allows personnel located on two different structures, such as two ships, to continually monitor the separation distance between the two structures, with all of the necessary equipment being located on only one of the structures. This is accomplished u... | 10/23/2007 |
