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Comic actor Danny Kaye received patent D166,807 for the co-design of "Blowout Toy or the Like". It's similar to one of those toys that unravels when you blow into at a birthday party except Kaye's has three blowouts going in different directions, not just one.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8179319 | Adaptive optimization of estimation of the angle of arrival of a signal received by an array of antenna elements A parameter of interest of a signal, such as the angle of arrival of a target signal received by an antenna system having an array of antenna elements, is estimated by (a) obtaining disparate observations of the target signal received by the antenna system; (b) with... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8138974 | Location estimation system, method and program A location estimation method using label propagation. The achieved location estimation method is robust to variations in radio signal strengths and is highly accurate by using the q-norm (0 | 03/20/2012 |
| 8130147 | Signal wave arrival angle measuring device A signal wave arrival angle measuring device includes: an observation data vector generation section generating an observation data vector necessary for an angle measurement of a signal wave from an electrical signal having been converted at a sensor group convertin... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8125388 | Method for calibrating an AOA location system for all frequencies in a frequency hopping signal A method for calibrating an antenna and signal processing system enabling angle of arrival (AOA) determination for a frequency hopping signal, in which a calibration coefficient is determined in response to one or more calibration signals injected into the system at... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8035562 | Digital beam-forming apparatus and technique for a multi-beam global positioning system (GPS) receiver An advanced multiple-beam GPS receiving system is achieved that is capable of simultaneously tracking multiple GPS satellites independently, detecting multiple interference signals individually, and suppressing directional gain in the antenna pattern of each beam in... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8004463 | Systems and methods for determining direction-of-arrival The disclosed system and method for determining direction-of-arrival generally includes an antenna element and a processor. The antenna element may configured to generate a signal in response to an electromagnetic wave. The processor may be process the signal to det... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7990314 | Method and system for locating a geographical position using broadcast frequency modulation signals A method and system for locating and positioning using broadcast frequency modulation (FM) signals, is provided. One implementation involves receiving FM stereo signals from three FM stations at one or more receivers, each stereo signal including a modulated 19 KHz ... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7982670 | Method and system for estimating directions-of-arrival in low power or low sample size scenarios The present invention relates to a method and a system for determining the direction of arrival of one or multiple radio or acoustic waves and, more particularly, to such a method and system especially advantageous in situations where the number of available observa... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7973715 | Determining a direction of arrival of signals incident to a tripole sensor A system to determine a direction of arrival of each of a plurality of constituent signals of a superimposed wave includes a tripole radio antenna, a sampling unit, a frequency determining unit, an amplitude and phase determining unit, and a direction determining un... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7969360 | High resolution, arbitrary-even-order direction finding method and device Method of high-resolution direction finding to an arbitrary even order, 2q (q>2), for an array comprising N narrowband antennas each receiving the contribution from P sources characterized in that the algebraic properties of a matrix of cumulants of order 2q, C... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7948438 | Determining the angle of arrival of a target signal received by an array of antenna elements In a system for determining the angle of arrival of a target signal received by an array of antenna elements, a receiver obtains observations of a received target signal from an array of antenna elements; and a computer processes the obtained observations of the tar... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7940215 | Adaptive antenna radio communication device An adaptive antenna radio communication device comprises a divided band direction estimating unit for estimating the direction by calculating the cross correlations between a pilot signal and sub-carrier signals of the respective divided bands received by an array a... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7876264 | Method of source number estimation and its application in method of direction of arrival estimation The present invention provides a method of source number estimation based on eigenspace in DOA estimation, including: (1) obtaining signals received by uniform linear array; (2) calculating a covariance matrix according to the received signals; (3) calculating a com... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7847733 | Direction-of-arrival estimating device and program An arriving direction estimating device for estimating the arriving direction of an arriving wave with high accuracy and at high speed by using a sensor array. The arriving direction estimating device comprises a receiving section for generating a baseband signal fr... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7804449 | Method for angle of arrival determination on frequency hopping air interfaces A method for calibrating an antenna and signal processing system enabling angle of arrival (AOA) determination for a frequency hopping signal, in which a calibration coefficient is determined in response to one or more calibration signals injected into the system at... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7791537 | Radio monitoring apparatus and method Disclosed is radio monitoring apparatus which includes a radio station distinction unit, a direction measurement unit, a transmission source location estimation unit and a transmission source location classification unit. The radio station distinction unit outputs r... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7750849 | Method and arrangement for determining the spatial frequency of a signal A method and arrangement for finding the direction to an emitter source by determining the spatial frequency of a signal received from the source in a sensor panel and comparing the spatial frequency with the instantaneous frequency. The panel includes a first matri... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7667646 | System and methods for direction finding using a handheld device A system for indicating the relative direction of a target object or location as determined from the current position of a wireless communication device. The system employs Direction of Arrival determination using an antenna array for indicating the direction of a t... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7579988 | Method, device and system for determining direction of arrival of signal A method, device and system for determining a DOA of a signal are described. Determination of the DOA of the signal may include receiving first and second UWB waveforms of the signal at one or more antennas of a UWB transceiver. A window may be defined in the first ... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7538727 | System and method for determining the bearing of a source location from a receiver location The system comprises a first beatable signal source, a second beatable signal source, a phase reference signal source and a receiver. The first beatable signal source and the second beatable signal source are located at the source location; the receiver is located a... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7528774 | Apparatus for measuring azimuth by using phase difference and method of using the same An azimuth measurement apparatus including: a positioning signal receiver receiving a first impulse positioning signal and a second impulse positioning signal from a first fixed position and a second fixed position, respectively; a phase difference detector detectin... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7453399 | Antenna processing method for potentially non-centered cyclostationary signals An antenna processing method for centered or potentially non-centered cyclostationary signals, comprises at least one step in which one or more nth order estimators are obtained from r-order statistics, with r=1 to n−1, and for one or more values of r, it comprise... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7436358 | Signal arrival direction deducing device, signal arrival direction deducing method, and signal direction deducing program A signal arrival direction deducing device capable of deducing the signal arrival direction even when a correlation matrix between input signals and noise correlation matrix are singular. A state is observed in which only noise is present and a state is observed in ... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7423589 | Method for localising at least one emitter The invention relates to a method of localization of one or more sources, said source or sources being in motion relative to a network of sensors, the method comprising a step of separation of the sources in order to identify the direction vectors associated with th... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7414580 | Method and corresponding device for joint signal detection and direction of arrival estimation A method and corresponding device for joint signal detection and direction of arrival estimation, based on the ability to identify both the existence and direction of arrival of a required signal featuring known characteristics, before it is forwarded to a modem. Op... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7409226 | Use of doppler direction finding to improve signal link performance in a wireless communication environment A rotating antenna is used in a wireless system to impart a phase onto a received signal by electronically moving the effective receiving antenna location along a circular path such that the modulation phase angle indicates the bearing of the radio transmission and ... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7409227 | Radio apparatus The invention relates to a radio apparatus for estimating a direction from which a received wave arrives and forming a radio transmission channel between a transmitting end of the received wave and itself. The invention aims to maintain stable transmission quality. ... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7405696 | Method for calibrating and AOA location system for frequency hopping air interfaces A method for calibrating an antenna and signal processing system enabling angle of arrival (AOA) determination for a frequency hopping signal, in which a calibration coefficient is determined in response to one or more calibration signals injected into the system at... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7395084 | Dynamic antenna allocation system A communication system with an antenna array having a respective antenna for each of a multitude of communication modules and a control system which seiectiyely reassigns communication over a first of said multitude of communication modules to a second communication... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7379019 | Method for angle of arrival determination on frequency hopping air interfaces A method for calibrating an antenna and signal processing system enabling angle of arrival (AOA) determination for a frequency hopping signal, in which a calibration coefficient is determined in response to one or more calibration signals injected into the system at... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7379020 | Apparatus and method for estimating direction of arrival of radio wave A radio wave direction-of-arrival estimation apparatus and method that can estimate, at high speed and with good accuracy, the direction of arrival of a plurality of incoming waves having high correlation. The radio wave direction-of-arrival estimation apparatus inc... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7372404 | Apparatus for estimating direction of arrival wave Apparatus and method are disclosed for estimating direction of an arrival wave, such as radio or acoustic waves. A correlation matrix of an arrival wave is computed, and matrices for obtaining eigenvalues and eigenvectors are produced. Column norms of the matrix, wh... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7358898 | Method for calibrating an AOA location system for all frequencies in a frequency hopping signal A method for calibrating an antenna and signal processing system enabling angle of arrival (AOA) determination for a frequency hopping signal, in which a calibration coefficient is determined in response to one or more calibration signals injected into the system at... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7358893 | Pseudo random code modulated signal combiner A circuit and associated method for determining the heading of a vehicle or device with a satellite ranging system receiver is provided. The circuit requires only a single front end RF stage. A single RF stage can be used because the incoming signal received at the ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7354321 | Outboard motor control system In an outboard motor control system, an electronic control unit executes ordinary navigation in which the operation of at least one among a steering motor, throttle motor and shift motor is controlled in accordance with an operator command inputted from the steering... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7349567 | Method and apparatus for determining angular pose of an object The present invention is operative to determine the angular pose of an assumed object. A series of projection sums are calculated from a sample image of the known object where the known object has an assumed pose. The projection sums are calculated for a range of an... | 03/25/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7339515 | Optimized utilization of electronic counter measures The invention relates to a distributed electronic counter measures solution, wherein jamming signals (JA; JB) may be emitted towards threats (X1, X2) from counter measures stations in multiple vehicles (A, B), which are physically... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7339524 | Analog decorrelation of ranging signals In a local positioning system, a receiver is adapted for receiving signals from a land-based transmitter. The receiver includes an analog decorrelator for decorrelating the transmitted spread spectrum signals. A down converter connected with an antenna may be spaced... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7333835 | Method and apparatus for providing user specific downlink beamforming in a fixed beam network The disclosed embodiments relate to a system and method for providing user specific beams in a fixed beam network. In one embodiment, there is provided a mobile transceiver comprising a first device configured to receive phase reference signal data from a base stati... | 02/19/2008 |
