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| 8102310 | Dismount step discrimination with temporal adaptive matched filtering of doppler spectral features A process for detecting and discriminating a particular target, such as an ambulating human, amidst an environment crowded with other objects or humans having similar doppler profiles to the desired target. A method according to one embodiment includes generating an... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8098196 | Time-compressed clutter covariance signal processor The time compression processor coding methodology gives rise to an exceedingly fast clutter covariance processor compressor (CCPC). The CCPC includes a look up memory containing a very small number of predicted clutter covariances (PCCs) that are suitably designed o... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8077081 | Ground collision instrument for aircraft and marine vehicles Radar return processing systems and methods are operable to process radar information when an installation vehicle is operating in proximity to a surface area of interest. An exemplary embodiment reduces energy of an output pulse emitted from a radar system; receive... | 12/13/2011 |
| 7982666 | System and method for increasing spectral resolution A system and method for extrapolating sampled radar data allows in one aspect spectral data to be increased without increasing scan time and in another aspect allows scan time to be decreased without decreasing radar data quality. Extrapolation is carried out by ext... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7944392 | Radar receiver and a method for processing radar returns A method for processing received radar returns of a radiated wide-band arbitrary waveform in a wide-band radar processing system using spectral processing. The received wide-band radar returns are undersampled by using a first sampling rate to obtain an undersampled... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7855677 | Code generation apparatus The code generation apparatus includes: a clock generator which generates a clock signal of a first frequency; a timing controller which generates a timing signal of a second frequency lower than the first frequency; a code table storage in which a plurality of code... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7852261 | Tracking waveform selection for multi-function radar The present invention relates to tracking waveforms in radar which minimizes the dwell time and energy in a tracking waveform while maintaining a specified track positional accuracy and consequently velocity accuracy. The present invention provides a method and appa... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7812761 | DSSS radar, method implemented by radar and computer-readable storage medium A DSSS (Direct Sequence Spectrum Spreading) radar has a transmitting part to transmit a transmitting signal, including a predetermined code sequence, to one or a plurality of targets, a receiving part to receive a received signal corresponding to the transmitting si... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7773032 | Methods and applications utilizing signal source memory space compression and signal processor computational time compression A method and apparatus for a simplified approach for determining the output of a total covariance signal processor. A single set of offline calculations is performed and then used to estimate the output of the total covariance signal processor. A simplified approach... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7768448 | Enhanced line-of-sight (LOS) processing for all-digital LOS processor An all-digital line-of-sight (LOS) process architecture addresses the size, weight, power and performance constraints of a receiver for use in semi-active or active pulsed electromagnetic (EM) targeting systems. The all-digital architecture provides a platform for e... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7760135 | Robust pulse deinterleaving Systems and methods are presented for associating time slices of a received signal with previously encountered time slices. A parameter determination component determines at least one parameter for each received time slice. A content addressable memory stores a plur... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7737885 | Ramp linearization for FMCW radar using digital down-conversion of a sampled VCO signal The invention relates to an FMCW radar system and a method of operating an FMCW radar system to produce a linear frequency ramp. The FMCW radar system includes a VCO, a frequency divider coupled to the VCO output, followed by an A/D converter. A down-converter shift... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7652619 | Systems and methods using multiple down-conversion ratios in acquisition windows A system for processing a signal comprises a transmit unit to transmit a signal, and a receive unit receiving the signal and performing equivalent time sampling thereon by sampling each cycle of the received signal and reconstructing the received signal from the sam... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7652620 | RCS signature generation for closely spaced multiple objects using N-point models A method and system for analyzing the RCS of an object using N Point signature prediction models is provided. N-point signature prediction models are created for each object in a scenario and stored in lookup tables. Shooting and Bounce trace back techniques are use... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7626538 | Augmented passive tracking of moving emitter In one embodiment, the disclosure relates to a method for estimating and predicting a target emitter's kinematics, the method including the steps of: (a) passively sampling, at a first sampling rate, an emitter signal to obtain at least one passively measured signal... | 12/01/2009 |
| 7612710 | Processing virtual and live tracks to form a virtual-over-live environment In one aspect, a method includes receiving live radar data, receiving virtual radar data, merging the live radar data and the virtual radar data to form merged data, and tagging the merged data with a virtual tag indicator to indicate a presence of the virtual radar... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7612711 | System and method for communicating low data rate information with a radar system A method is disclosed for transmitting low data rate symbols from a communications terminal to a burst radar transceiver. A plurality of bursts can be emitted from a burst radar transceiver, each burst having a burst interval and separated by an inter-burst interval... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7548194 | Hostile intention assessment system and method A hostile intention assessment system and method wherein a tracking sensor subsystem (e.g., radar) tracks targets relative to a critical asset. Determinations are made to assess if a first target is approaching a second target, and to assess if the second target is ... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7460061 | Distributed radar data processing system A distributed radar data processing system for generating data to be supplied to air traffic control by processing radar data obtained from a radar device, comprises a plurality of data buses provided in accordance with types of flowing data, a plurality of applicat... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7460062 | Signal processing apparatus A first AD converter subjects an analog signal to AD conversion by a first AD clock, and a second AD converter subjects the same analog signal to AD conversion by a second AD clock that is shifted in phase from the first AD clock by half cycle. FF circuits store the... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7443336 | In-vehicle pulse radar device Provided is an in-vehicle pulse radar device capable of calculating a distance to a target object based on a delay time between a transmission pulse wave and a received signal. The in-vehicle pulse radar device includes: a reception control unit for controlling pass... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7443337 | Synthesizing arbitrary waveforms using convolution processors A method for generating a synthesized waveform from a desired arbitrary waveform via a convolution processor includes: providing a data stream input signal to the convolution processor including an extended duration impulse signal; computing one or more filter coeff... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7439906 | Doppler-compensated radar pulse compression processing system and method A radar receiver system includes a receiver, a processor including a Doppler Compensated Adaptive Pulse Compressor (DCAPC) algorithm, possible other intermediate processing and a target detector. The DCAPC algorithm processes samples of a radar return signal, applie... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7436351 | Multipath resolving correlation interferometer direction finding Apparatus and a method utilizing correlation interferometer direction finding for determining the azimuth and elevation to an aircraft at long range and flying at low altitudes above water with a transmitting radar while resolving multipath signals. The signals from... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7436352 | Radar protection device for wireless networks A method for radar protection. The method includes recording energy events and calculating differences in recorded energy events to determine pulses. The method further includes sorting intervals between pulses into histogram bins, each bin representing a range of t... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7429948 | Device and method for calibrating and improving the accuracy of barometric altimeters with GPS-derived altitudes In a combined GPS/altimeter device, the calibration and hence the accuracy of barometric altimeter measurements are enhanced with the aid of derived altitudes from a GPS. The device determines the need for calibration and perform the subsequent computations necessar... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7427943 | Method of generating three-dimensional weather information from airborne weather radar imagery A method of displaying real-time, three-dimensional weather information is disclosed. A first representation of a weather event along a first plane is generated from data obtained from a first radar scan. A second representation of the weather event along a second p... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7427944 | Pulse radar system A pulse radar system includes: a pulse output circuit that outputs a periodic transmission pulse and a gate pulse having a cycle which is a rational multiple of a cycle of the transmission pulse and is different from a cycle of the transmission pulse; a transmission... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7427947 | Aircrew aid to assess jam effectiveness The invention generally relates to the field of computer software particularly to an improved method of providing aircrew decision aids for use in determining the optimum placement of an Electronic Attack (EA) aircraft. The core of the invention is a software progra... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7427946 | Object sensing apparatus While an FM-CW mode for sensing an object, in which a frequency of an electromagnetic wave transmitted from a transmission/reception antenna 6 is continuously modulated, and also, a CW mode for judging an abnormal condition, in which the frequency of the elec... | 09/23/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7425693 | Spectral tracking A method of tracking a target. The method includes the steps of acquiring a first spectral image of a scene that includes the target, designating a spectral reference window, in the first spectral image, that includes a respective plurality of pixel vectors, acquiri... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7423587 | Method for frequency-driven generation of a multiresolution decomposition of the input to wave-based sensing arrays A method for generating a multiresolution decomposition of an array signal by a bank of spatial bandpass filters is disclosed. The signal processing operation is implemented through the use of the directivities of the individual array elements and does not degrade t... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7423581 | Radar and similar apparatus A radar device is provided that can reliably display sensed image data of an object, regardless of the state of the object (echo) within a sensed range and of the surrounding environment. A behavior data detector 11 generates current level detection data by d... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7424269 | System, method and device of radar detection Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, apparatus and system of radar detection. The method, according to some demonstrative embodiments of the invention, may include comparing an energy level of signals received over a wireless communication channel ... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7423575 | Method and apparatus for protecting personnel and material from RF-based threats using ultra-wideband (UWB) transmission An ultra wideband (UWB) jamming system comprises a processor, a memory, a pulse generator, one or more UWB transmitters, and one or more UWB antennas. In an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, the RF signals of a threat transmission or an RF-triggered exp... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7420505 | Radar or sensor system with hierarchical architecture and reconfigurable functionality A method of organizing a radar system or a sensor system with multiple levels of hierarchical constructs for all level of the system. These architectural levels incorporate self-similar organizational structure and represent design strategies that implement data tra... | 09/02/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7417577 | Methods of estimating precipitation characteristics A method of estimating precipitation characteristics including acquiring a radar image including at least a vertical plane of a precipitation zone; processing a vertical profile to generate digital signals representative of reflectivity in vertical direction z; inte... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7417579 | Weather radar with significance determination A weather radar system includes processing electronics. The processing electronics sense weather and determine significant weather based upon the altitude of the weather. The altitude of the weather can be compared to a flight path to determine its significance. A d... | 08/26/2008 |
