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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8098184 | Motorcycle communication system with radar detector, and mounting assemblies therefor A communication system for use with a motorcycle includes a main unit that has a detector and a transmitter that transmits an alert signal upon the detection of a radar or laser by the detector. The system further includes either a visual indicator or an audio indic... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8022858 | Radar detection method and apparatus using the same A method for detecting radar signal comprises the steps of: receiving a signal by a receiver, wherein the strength of the received signal is controlled within a range; sampling the received signal so as to obtain a plurality of sampling values; dividing the sampling... | 09/20/2011 |
| 7999721 | Radar detector with navigational function A GPS enabled radar detector dynamically handles radar sources based upon previously-stored geographically-referenced information on such sources and data from the GPS receiver. The detector includes technology for determining the location of the detector, and compa... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7986259 | Motorcycle radar detection system A radar detection system for use with a motorcycle includes a main console that includes a single I/O interface, a detector and a controller that transmits an alert signal upon the detection of a radar or laser by the detector. The radar detection system also includ... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7965222 | Cellular augmented radar/laser detector A radar/laser emission detector is augmented with a cellular communications capability to provide the capability to share emission detection information amongst drivers to give other drivers even more advanced warning. A network of a plurality of cellular augmented ... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7948427 | Radar detection method and apparatus using the same A method for detecting radar signal comprises the steps of: sampling a received signal so as to obtain a plurality of sampling values; taking an absolute value of the sampling values so as to obtain at least two parameters; and determining whether the received signa... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7928891 | GPS with radar detector A GPS system includes a frame having a window, a GPS navigator supported by the frame, wherein a display of the GPS navigator is facing opposite to the window of the frame, a radar detector received in the frame to align with the window thereof, and an attaching ele... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7907080 | Radar detection for wireless communication devices A method and apparatus for detecting radar signals in single and multiple (extension) channel wireless network frequencies uses spectral and DC analysis. Spectral images produced through a Fast Fourier transform may be captured and analyzed to determine if any radar... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7834800 | Systems and methods for detecting radar A system includes a storing module configured to receive records. The records include dynamic frequency selection (DFS) information. A data extraction module is configured to extract the DFS information from a first plurality of the records. A control module is conf... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7830298 | Motorcycle communication system with radar detector, and mounting assemblies therefor A communication system for use with a motorcycle includes a main unit that has a detector and a transmitter that transmits an alert signal upon the detection of a radar or laser by the detector. The system further includes either a visual indicator or an audio indic... | 11/09/2010 |
| RE41905 | Intelligent radar detector A radar detector for alerting an operator of a motor vehicle to an incoming police radar signal. This radar detector includes a microprocessor; a circuit coupled to the microprocessor for detecting the incoming police radar signal; and a global positioning system re... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7804440 | Radar detector with position and velocity sensitive functions A GPS enabled radar detector dynamically handles radar sources based upon previously stored geographically referenced information on such sources and data from the GPS receiver. The detector includes technology for determining the location of the detector, and compa... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7764219 | Cellular augmented radar/laser detector A radar/laser emission detector is augmented with a cellular communications capability to provide the capability to share emission detection information amongst drivers to give other drivers even more advanced warning. A network of a plurality of cellular augmented ... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7764218 | Adaptive sampling of radio frequency channels for radar detection Described in an example embodiment herein is a procedure that comprises sampling one or more channels that are not in use for a short time at certain intervals. In particular embodiments, the interval duration is irregular so as to prevent “out of step” lock wit... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7728755 | Reactive parallel processing jamming system The system is a parallel processing jamming architecture that is designed to automatically attack and concurrently investigate multiple signals simultaneously in the radio environment. The system implements multiple wideband independent channels to allow simultaneou... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7623060 | Systems and methods for detecting radar A system includes a first-in first-out (FIFO) module, a polling module, a data extraction module, and a control module. The FIFO module receives records having dynamic frequency selection (DFS) information generated based on pulses received and generates a control s... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7579976 | Systems and methods for discriminating signals in a multi-band detector A radar detector is operated to suppress nuisance radar alerts by identifying a first signal in radar band of interest, e.g., having a frequency that is a harmonic of a first nuisance local oscillator frequency leaked from a nearby radar detector and identifying a s... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7576679 | Radar detector with position and velocity sensitive functions A GPS enabled radar detector dynamically handles radar sources based upon previously stored geographically referenced information on such sources and data from the GPS receiver. The detector includes technology for determining the location of the detector, and compa... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7570193 | Detecting and recognizing long duration waveforms A method and apparatus for processing signal pulses received by a device to identify the presence or absence of a waveform is provided. The waveform may have a long duration and may have a sparse energy distribution. An example of such a waveform is the bin-5 radar ... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7535402 | Navigation with satellite communications A Low Earth Orbiting (LEO) satellite is used for broadcasting differential navigation corrections. Using LEO satellites, the “footprint” of the beam is much smaller than for geosynchronous satellites, and therefore data link bandwidth requirements are reduced to... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7532149 | Rearview mirror assembly encompassing a radar detector and/or laser detector One embodiment of a rearview mirror encompassing a plurality of radar detectors and laser detectors comprises of an opaque housing, a rearview mirror assembly, a universal mount, and a PCB assembly providing all of the illumination, audible indication, logic, user i... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7504983 | Motorcycle communication system with radar detector, and mounting assemblies therefor A communication system for use with a motorcycle includes a main unit that has a detector and a transmitter that transmits an alert signal upon the detection of a radar or laser by the detector. The system further includes either a visual indicator or an audio indic... | 03/17/2009 |
| RE40653 | Radar detector for detecting police radar that receives GPS data A radar detector for alerting an operator of a motor vehicle to an incoming police radar signal. This radar detector includes a microprocessor; a circuit coupled to the microprocessor for detecting the incoming police radar signal; and a global positioning system re... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7482967 | Digital electronic support measures An apparatus for characterising an input signal within abroad frequency band by comparing the same input signal in a plurality of channels, in order to operate digital Electronic Support Measures (ESM) which require a broad bandwidth to function. The apparatus compr... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7440779 | Radar detector having function of hands-free device A radar detector enabling hands-free communication over a mobile phone by connecting the mobile phone to the radar detector. The radar detector includes a horn antenna; a signal-processing unit (SPU) for detecting a signal received by the horn antenna; a laser modul... | 10/21/2008 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7397416 | Police radar/laser detector with integral vehicle parameter display using a vehicle interface Calibration of an acceleration detector is initiated by a user depressable button such as a button indicating a vehicle is at rest and/or by the detector reading an OBDII vehicle communication protocol to determine the condition of the vehicle. Calibration permits m... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7388537 | Radar detector with reduced emissions A radar detector includes features to reduce emissions such as those typically generated by the detector's local oscillator. Two low noise amplifiers (LNA's), operating in X band and a combined K/Ka band, respectively amplify X and K/Ka band signals from separate an... | 06/17/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7362239 | Vehicle warning system A vehicle warning system is responsive to vehicle speed and position as determined by GPS or other location based system information to alert a vehicle operator of potentially unsafe conditions when either exceeding the speed limit on a given road segment or when ap... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362261 | Linear frequency-modulated pulse radar A linear frequency-modulated pulse radar system is provided in which the echo signal is mixed with a de-ramp signal, in order to reduce the bandwidth. The transmission signal of the pulse radar and the de-ramp signal are generated with the same reference oscillator,... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7358857 | Global positioning systems applications A global positioning system includes a fixed base unit of known position and at least one mobile unit, the base unit and the mobile unit each including a GPS receiver. This system further includes means for comparing the simultaneous GPS identified positions of the ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7358887 | System and method for detecting emitters signals having multi-valued illumination times A system and method is provided for detecting emitter signals and for determining a scan strategy for a receiver system that receives such emitter signals. When detecting emitter signals of a particular emitter, the receiver may periodically revisit the portion of t... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7348919 | System and method for evaluating the performance of a scan strategy A system and method is provided for detecting emitter signals and for determining a scan strategy for a receiver system that receives such emitter signals. Once a scan strategy is computed, it may be desirable to evaluate the scan strategy's intercept performance ag... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7337162 | Computer-implemented method and apparatus for matching paint A computer implemented method for matching paint on a vehicle, having the steps of receiving in a central computer, from a remote terminal, vehicle identifying information relating to a specific vehicle and a first set of paint color data from a portion of the body ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336736 | Method of detecting and processing pulsed signals in a radio signal The invention allows the detection and processing in a radio signal received by a receiver, of any signal of “pulsed” type present in radio signals applied to the input of a radiofrequency receiver, the receiver having an analogue/digital converter for performin... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7333051 | Methods and devices for determining the linearity of signals A method (for example, machine-implemented, e.g., via a receiver), for determining whether a transmitted pulsed-signal is a linear or non-linear frequency modulated (FM) signal, includes: iteratively determining upper and lower bound slopes associated with frequency... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7327775 | CDMA receiver A signal reception method including method and apparatus for receiving a signal, down converting the received signal through multi-tone down conversion to form an intermediate signal, and decoding the intermediate signal to extract data. In an embodiment, the receiv... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7327303 | Hybrid radar receiver A hybrid radar receiver includes an antenna array for receiving an input signal having a radar signal from a signal emitter. Each array element outputs an analog signal on a respective data channel. For each data channel, an activatable A/D converter is provided. A ... | 02/05/2008 |
