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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8102301 | Self-configuring ADS-B system Techniques are described that allow information to be acquired by an ADS-B system of an aircraft without the installation of ADS-B dedicated flight crew controls or wired data interfaces in the aircraft. In one or more implementations, a receiver is associated with ... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8102302 | Mode 5 detection process using phase and amplitude correlation A receiver in a mode 5 air traffic control system provides amplitude and phase signal outputs a digital data stream containing preamble and flight information from data transmitted from an aircraft. A signal splitter divides the amplitude and phase signal outputs be... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8035547 | System and method of assisted aerial navigation A system and method of providing aerial navigation. Techniques are described for receiving global positioning system data, receiving local positioning system data such as instrument landing system data, generating a virtual target flight path using the global positi... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8031105 | Systems and methods for enhanced ATC overlay modulation Embodiments of the present invention disclose systems and methods for providing an enhanced data link using overlaid modulation. Through embodiments of the present invention, existing ATC (or other) modulated signals using existing standard frequencies may be utiliz... | 10/04/2011 |
| 7961136 | Automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) network infrastructure, ground station and situation display software deployment and evaluation activity A method and system that receives and processes ADS-B data from one or more aircraft is disclosed. The system may include one or more ground stations that receives data from one or more aircraft and converts the received aircraft ADS-B data to XML format, determines... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7956795 | Transmission scheduling for ADS-B ground systems System and methods for reducing redundant messages broadcast in an Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) system. For a given target, a controller determines the relevant customers that should receive information about the target, identifies all of the g... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7868813 | Multi-use bearing and range line A method (400), a system and a computer program product are disclosed for graphically displaying air traffic control information in an air traffic control system. Information about objects in an air traffic control environment is compiled and calculated (4... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7755532 | Methods and apparatus for assignment and maintenance of unique aircraft addresses for TIS-B services Methods and apparatus for assigning a pseudo address to an aircraft not equipped with an ADS-B transponder and maintaining the assigned pseudo address over a number of regions each supported by different TIS-B systems. In an exemplary embodiment, each TIS-B system i... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7616149 | Methods and apparatus for radar time sensor Methods and apparatus to detect and measure energy transmission or azimuth angle information from a radar system at one or more known or measured azimuth angles, determine, for each azimuth angle, the time corresponding to the center of the beam of the energy transm... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7443334 | Collision alerting and avoidance system A collision alerting and avoidance system for use in an aerial vehicle is presented herein. The system comprises a one low profile antenna array disposed on the aerial vehicle. A transmitter/receiver probe is coupled to the antenna array. The transmitter/receiver pr... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7437225 | Flight management system The present invention is a system and method for providing flight management to one or more aircraft via a communication link between a fight management system located outside the aircraft and a flight management system located inside the aircraft. Remote flight man... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7420501 | Method and system for correlating radar position data with target identification data, and determining target position using round trip delay data A method and system for using a single transceiver to correlate radar position data with target identification data. Two transceivers, operating in round trip delay mode, can be used to provide two possible positions for a given target when radar coverage is lost or... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7412324 | Flight management system with precision merging The present invention is a flight management system with precision merging that may determine a rejoin turn location based upon a heading to allow proper spacing between an aircraft and an identified target aircraft. The flight management system may monitor for devi... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7408498 | Secondary surveillance radar and its interrogation transmission method An interrogation transmission method of a secondary surveillance radar compares prediction angle ranges for transmitting interrogations with a beam-width of an antenna, and transmits the interrogations at every roll-call period if the prediction angle ranges for tra... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7366323 | Hierarchical static shadow detection method There is provided a hierarchical shadow detection system for color aerial images. The system performs well with highly complex images as well as images having different brightness and illumination conditions. The system consists of two hierarchical levels of process... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7363121 | System, method and apparatus for searching geographic area using prioritized spatial order A spatial data search method, system and apparatus for identifying particular data of significance around a reference vector through the spatial data. The method involves determining a reference vector within a spatial region for which spatial data exists, loading a... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362262 | Method and apparatus for providing an integrated communications, navigation and surveillance satellite system An integrated communications, navigation and surveillance system includes a plurality of satellites in communication with one another and broadcasting navigation signals. The satellites are capable of bi-directional communication and of receiving and relaying survei... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7352280 | System and method for intruder tracking using advanced correlation in a network security system A method for correlating event information comprises receiving event information for a plurality of detected events wherein the event information for a particular detected event comprises a plurality of attributes associated with that detected event. The method cont... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7330147 | System and method for ground proximity warning with enhanced obstacle depiction Systems and methods for displaying ground obstructions on a visual display are disclosed. In an embodiment, a ground proximity warning system includes at least one aircraft sensor system operable to acquire aircraft data and a ground proximity warning computer coupl... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7313143 | Method for diversity site group operations in air/ground communications Shortcomings in conventional Very High Frequency (VHF) Digital Link Mode 3 (VDL-3) communication techniques for implementing air/ground (A/G) diversity site group (DSG) communication are identified and resolved. Beacon schedules are used to coordinate the use of VDL... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7307579 | Collision alerting and avoidance system A collision alerting and avoidance system for use in an aerial vehicle is presented herein. The system comprises a one low profile antenna array disposed on the aerial vehicle. The array includes a plurality of horns; a polar horn, 45-degree horns, and equatorial ho... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7292180 | System and method for passively estimating angle and range of a source using signal samples collected simultaneously from a multi-aperture antenna A system and method for passively estimating range and angle of a source are disclosed. The source may be any wave source including radio-frequency (RF), optical, acoustic or seismic sources. In some RF embodiments, the system includes a single aperture antenna to s... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7277558 | Method and system for estimating the position of moving objects in images A method and system are disclosed for estimating a position of moving objects in a set of image data. In accordance with exemplary embodiments of the present invention, a position of an object is identified in a first frame of image data acquired at a first time. Th... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7256729 | Method for the observation of a number of objects The invention relates to a method for the observation of a number of objects, which move in a space monitored by a number of sensors, are recorded by the sensors and followed with continuous updating of at least the sensor track defining the kinematics of the object... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7256728 | Aircraft avoidance system for prohibiting an aircraft from entering an exclusion zone The present invention relates to an avoidance system and method for directing an aircraft away from an exclusion zone. The exclusion zone may be any three dimensional space for example about a building or city. The avoidance system uses a constant signal from a grou... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7257469 | Delivering data updates to an avionics device Systems, devices, and methods are provided for updating information resident on an avionics device. One avionics device embodiment includes a processor, a memory, and a receiver. The memory can be in communication with the processor. The receiver can receive radio s... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7248963 | Method and system for aircraft flow management A method for managing the flow of a plurality of aircraft at an aviation resource, based upon specified data and operational goals pertaining to the aircraft and resource and the control of aircraft arrival fix times at the resource by a system manager, includes the... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7248219 | Correlation of flight track data with other data sources A method of triangulating aircraft transponder signals using a number of receivers connected to a central station over communication links includes applying at least one logic rule at each receiver to incoming transponder signals to filter redundant transponder sign... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7233861 | Prediction of vehicle operator destinations A method for predicting vehicle operator destinations including receiving vehicle position data for a vehicle. The vehicle position data for a current trip is compared to vehicle position data for a previous trip to predict a destination for the vehicle. A path to t... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7230632 | Airport display method including changing zoom scales An airport display method including the steps of providing data related to an airport, selecting a degree of zoom for the airport to be displayed on a displayed from a plurality of different degrees of zoom, controlling the display to display in the at least one win... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7216296 | Method and apparatus for controlled force deployment of user interface devices User interface devices, such as displays and keyboards, are automatically deployed using pulse-width-modulated controlled force in a first safety period. Once safe, force and speed are increased to full deployment. At full deployment, electrical braking dissipates m... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7212920 | Speed dependent variable range display system The speed dependent variable display system for a computer-implemented moving-map vehicle display system includes a data conversion module for converting a vehicle speed input signal to a distance range value; and, an application module for utilizing the distance ra... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7206698 | Ground operations and imminent landing runway selection A method, computer program product and apparatus for locating aircraft with respect to airport runways and environs, generating a graphical display of the aircraft position, heading and ground speed information relative to the aircraft runways and environs, and annu... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7203688 | Analysing tactical data link messages A method of analyzing data link messages is disclosed. These messages include a message type field and at least one message content field whose meaning is determined by the message type. The method includes storing the plurality of data link messages in a database. ... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7187320 | Matched maneuver detector A target tracking arrangement predicts the state of a target. The predictor may be a Kalman filter. In the presence of a target which is maneuvering, the prediction may be in error. A maneuver detector is coupled to receive residuals representing the difference betw... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7170441 | Target localization using TDOA distributed antenna This invention is a system and method of locating a target using distributed antenna. The antenna consists of several receiving elements in known locations. At least one of the receiving elements is also a transmitter and transmits an interrogation signal to a targe... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7164383 | Navigation system using locally augmented GPS A local area augmentation navigation system for determining the location of an object using differential GPS. The system does not require any significant power or communication infrastructure. The system includes at least three reference stations, a master station a... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7151487 | Method for measuring GPS air sensitivity and mobile terminal having function of measuring GPS air sensitivity A method for measuring an air sensitivity of a global positioning system (GPS) signal in a mobile terminal. A GPS signal value is obtained in the mobile terminal. The air sensitivity of the GPS signal value based on a reference GPS signal value is stored in a memory... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7151995 | Method for the prediction of air traffic events, especially for assistance in decision-making for airlines and airports In a method for the prediction of air-traffic events, with sending means being distributed on the sites of the air-traffic actors, and with data-processing means communicating with these sending means through at least one communications network, an event is predicte... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7148837 | System and method for ground proximity warning with enhanced obstacle depiction Systems and methods for displaying ground obstructions on a visual display are disclosed. In an embodiment, a ground proximity warning system includes at least one aircraft sensor system operable to acquire aircraft data and a ground proximity warning computer coupl... | 12/12/2006 |
