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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8164521 | Pseudo-omni-directional beamforming with multiple narrow-band beams In a technique for communication with a station on a wireless network, the technique includes forming a plurality of narrow-band beams, each having a different angular direction from an antenna of a base station and collectively distributed over a beamspace to form ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 7576693 | Position determination by directional broadcast Methods and systems to determine the position of objects indoors or in confined areas are disclosed. A multitude of broadcast stations are transmitting an omni-directional reference signal and directional signals having each a phase-shift depending upon their specif... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7277730 | Method of allocating radio resources in telecommunication system, and telecommunication system The invention relates to a method of allocating radio resources and a telecommunication system including a base station and user equipment. The base station includes a beam forming device configured to form at least two primary beams for signal reception. The antenn... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7268702 | Apparatus and methods for providing a flight display in an aircraft Apparatus and methods are provided for flight instruments in an electronic format. The flight instruments may appear in a standard configuration, including both primary flight instruments and secondary flight instruments. The apparatus and methods may also provide s... | 09/11/2007 |
| 7237747 | Device for assisting an airplane in intercepting a segment of a flight path utilizing positional and ground speed indicators Device assisting with interception by an aircraft of a flight path segment located in a horizontal plane and a system of assistance with interception and follow-up of such a segment. The device includes means of determining a ground speed vector and means of display... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7196655 | System and method for highly directional electronic identification and communication and combat identification system employing the same An antenna for directional electronic communication, a directional communication system, a method of conducting directional communication, a combat identification system and a method of identifying friendly forces. In one embodiment, the antenna includes: (1) a cond... | 03/27/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7043272 | Apparatus for forward beamforming using feedback of multipath information and method thereof Disclosed are an apparatus for forward beamforming using a terminal feedback and a method thereof. The base station estimates an angle of arrival (AOA) range of a user signal from reverse link received data and calculates a plurality of beamforming weights steering ... | 05/09/2006 |
| 6901329 | Beacon-based electronic guide system An electronic guide system is described that includes a fixed-location beacon located adjacent to a location which is associated with a plurality of landmarks to transmit electronic signals containing descriptive information of each of the landmarks. The guide syste... | 05/31/2005 |
| 6847327 | Base station, base station module and method for direction of arrival estimation The invention relates to a base station for a radio communications network. In order to be able to enhance the resolution for a direction of arrival estimation, the base station comprises: a first phasing network (31) for forming beams (B1-B4 | 01/25/2005 |
| 5922031 | Low-altitude piloting method In a method for the piloting of an aircraft, enabling low-altitude flight by setting up a tangent with the relief to be overflown, the aircraft pilot determines the goals to be attained on a cartographic screen. This is done in enabling a computer, using ... | 07/13/1999 |
| 5689273 | Aircraft surface navigation system A surface guidance system for guiding aircraft equipped with Instrument Landing Systems along taxiways which utilizes two inductive loops (14,16) installed around the right half and the left half of the taxiways. Audio amplifiers (18,20) drive one loop (1... | 11/18/1997 |
| 5526000 | Procedure and automatic control device for an airborne vehicle in low altitude overflight The so-called flight path of an aircraft is defined in the form of a set of successive target points (Bi -1, Bi, Bi +1) with a target circle (CBi) associated with each target point. A navigation envelope (DN) is... | 06/11/1996 |
| 5250955 | State entry beacon system A beacon system wherein a beacon station is placed at a landmark such as a state line adjacent a major highway to broadcast information-containing alternating directional signals. In addition, each vehicle may be equipped with a radio receiver, a receivin... | 10/05/1993 |
| 5218360 | Millimeter-wave aircraft landing and taxing system Apparatus, and a corresponding method, for generating navigational data to aid a pilot in landing or taxiing an aircraft in poor visibility conditions. Radio-frequency (rf) beacons at predetermined locations around an airport runway or taxiway are separat... | 06/08/1993 |
| 5014067 | Integrated landing system An integrated landing system interleaves signals encoded in a first format such as the microwave landing system that (MLS) format with signals encoded in a second format such as the precision tactical approach guidance (PTAG) format to permit approach gui... | 05/07/1991 |
| 4990921 | Multi-mode microwave landing system A guidance system for landing an aircraft is described which uses a source of signals identifiable with the aircraft and a ground station which is linked to the aircraft. Specifically, the ground station includes a receiver which is connected to one or mo... | 02/05/1991 |
| 4893127 | Radar navigation system A low cost electronic navigation system including a Loran receiver and a marine radar unit adapted to receive vessel position information from the Loran. A computer within the radar unit uses successive Loran outputs to display vessel heading and the bear... | 01/09/1990 |
| 4811022 | Scanning antenna having phase center diversity The object of this invention is to reduce the adverse effects of reflected electromagnetic radiation on the measurement threshold of a scanning beam. It has particular application to the time reference scanning beam of the international microwave landing ... | 03/07/1989 |
| 4789864 | Low elevation guidance system A guidance system for aircraft wherein a radio antenna on the ground transmits a beam that sweeps across an aircraft and the aircraft receives the beam and utilizes its amplitude waveform in determining the location of the aircraft from the station. At lo... | 12/06/1988 |
| 4646097 | Off-channel frequency discriminator circuit for use in a precision distance measuring equipment (DME/P) receiver A precision distance measuring equipment (DME/P) receiver for detecting an RF signal including at least one interrogation pulse is described. The DME/P receiver includes first and second signal processing channels. The first processing channel includes a ... | 02/24/1987 |
| 4642646 | Automatic sensitivity adjustment and audio muting for aircraft marker beacon receiver An improved aircraft marker beacon receiving and indicating system is provided, which automatically responds to the amplitude of the received signals to provide reduced sensitivity and muting of audio output after initial sensing and indication of proximi... | 02/10/1987 |
| 4333081 | Monitoring system for scanning-beam microwave landing apparatus Monitoring apparatus for a time reference scanning-beam microwave landing system which supplies directional information throughout a 40° to 60° landing approach sector. Several transponders are provided within the radiation field of the directional ante... | 06/01/1982 |
| 4125836 | Electrically scanned antenna system and modulator for omnidirectional radio range An antenna system in which the antennas are not mechanically rotated generates an amplitude-modulated signal of equal intensity in all horizontal directions with the phase of the amplitude modulation varying directly with bearing or azimuth to the antenna... | 11/14/1978 |
| 3989209 | Apparatus for guiding an aircraft along a multi-segment path when landing the craft For use with a microwave landing system of the type including a ground based station for generating a relatively wide aircraft navigational beam and airborne equipment for deriving precision azimuth, elevation, and range data therefrom, airborne equipment... | 11/02/1976 |
