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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7956796 | Detecting device and railroad vehicle A system according to the invention detects location information of a vehicle by using a reflection strength change of an electromagnetic wave. The system incorporates a radiowave transmitter which emits a first radiowave, positional markers which generate unique re... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7433779 | Method of following the course of the flight plan of a cooperative aircraft This method relates to the system of ATM air traffic management with cooperative aircraft provided with a flight management computer FMS, that are linked by a data transmission system ATN to the control authority and that have presented a flight plan to the control ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7414567 | ADS-B radar system A system and method of using a standard ADS-B transmitter and encoder to identify targets to provide a collision avoidance system, wherein the method includes the steps of providing a standard ADS-B transmitter and encoder, a phase modulator including a digital synt... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7376247 | Target detection system using radar and image processing A target detection system using an EHF radar and the image processing is disclosed, in which the processing time is shortened by mutually complementing the disadvantages of the EHF radar and the image processing thereby to improve the reliability. The system compris... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7342500 | Compact microstrip transponder antenna A transponder formed on a circuit substrate having a longitudinal axis and a transverse axis. An antenna is disposed on one side of a transverse axis, extending in a longitudinal direction, and the remaining circuit components are disposed on the other side of the t... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7340277 | Adaptive antenna for controlling the weighting on a plurality of antenna elements An optical subscriber system according to the present invention has an adaptive antenna having a plurality of antenna elements, for controlling the weighting on the antenna elements thereby to radiate beams that are adapted to radio wave environments, a position est... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7315274 | Method and system for determining the position of marine vessels and similar objects A method for determining the relative position between two or more objects in a marine environment, including waterways, of which at least one object can be maneuvered relative to one or more other objects. At least one interrogator is arranged on one or more of the... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7302338 | Navigational system and method for configuring a navigational system In a navigational system for generating route recommendations and for target tracking, a system (500, 800) is proposed, which detects vehicle-, traffic-, and/or driver-related data and which from these data can derive patterns of behavior of the user. The pat... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7280914 | Instrumented lock entry and traversing system An instrumented navigation system for aiding a towboat and barge configuration in the entry and traversal of a lock located on a waterway or for navigation around other structures, such as bridge piers or docks. The system consists of wirelessly linked computers on ... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7254369 | Process and device for estimating the speed of movement of a mobile terminal of a wireless communication system Estimating the speed of movement of a mobile terminal includes estimating the impulse response of the transmission channel at a given instant, and estimating the time derivative of the estimated impulse response. Estimating the speed also includes determining of a r... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7245252 | Method for determining the distance between two transmitting and receiving stations In a method for determining the distance between two transmitting and receiving stations, a transmission signal is generated in each station and is transmitted as a series of microwave pulses having a predefined pulse repetition frequency to the other respective sta... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7228214 | Path planner and method for planning a path plan having a spiral component A method and path planner for planning a path of a vehicle comprising a perimeter training module for identifying a border of a region associated with a work area. A definer for defining a reference row having a reference path that tracks at least a majority of the ... | 06/05/2007 |
| 7215954 | Resource allocation method for multi-platform communication system A mobile wireless communications system including a plurality of individual transponding nodes of various types, all in communication with a central processing hub. A local user signal is processed by the central processing hub and radiated through multiple paths to... | 05/08/2007 |
| 7212938 | Method of using a self-locking travel pattern to achieve calibration of remote sensors using conventionally collected data The present invention provides a method to calibrate an on-board remote sensing system using a self-locking travel pattern and target remote sensing data. The self-locking travel pattern includes a number of parallel travel lines having overlapping swath widths betw... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7209071 | System and method for distance measurement A system and method for performing distance measurement using wireless signals. A time of flight calculation is enabled by an interrogating device that transmits an interrogation signal to a responding device, which returns a synchronized signal back to the interrog... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7181162 | Communication system using multiple link terminals A communication system has a plurality of bases stations generating communication portions from a base station communication signal. The plurality of base stations are capable of using the entire allocated bandwidth to generate the base station communication portion... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7175082 | Contactless data communication system, position information management system, contactless identification tag, data communication system, contactless identification tag control program, and data communication system control program A contactless data communication system includes a contactless identification tag having first identification information inherent to the contactless identification tag and includes a drive power generation means to generate drive power from an electromagnetic wave ... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7167704 | Communication system using multiple link terminals for aircraft A communication system has a communication infrastructure and a gateway station communicating a communication signal to the communication infrastructure. An airplane having an antenna coupled to a processing circuit for establishing a plurality of multiple communica... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7161528 | Device and method for the suppression of pulsed wireless signals The invention relates to a method of suppressing pulsed signals in particular of DME or TACAN type present in the radio signals received (Ue) by a radio-frequency receiver, characterized in that the reception frequency band of the receiver is divided into frequency ... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7139581 | Method and system for distance measurement in a low or zero intermediate frequency half-duplex communications loop A method and system for distance measurement in a low or zero intermediate frequency (IF) half-duplex communications loop measures the distance between two transceivers without synchronizing the local oscillators of the two transceivers. Transceiver distance may be ... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7116266 | Traffic alert and collision avoidance system enhanced surveillance system and method A traffic alert and collision and avoidance system (TCAS) is disclosed. The TCAS comprises a first transponder and a first interrogator associated with a first aircraft. The first transponder sends an interrogation request. The TCAS also comprises a second transpond... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7110383 | Single user detection A transmitter site transmits a plurality of data signals over a shared spectrum in a code division multiple access communication system. Each transmitted data signal experiences a similar channel response. A combined signal of the transmitted data signals is receive... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7103317 | Communication system using multiple link terminals for aircraft A communication system has a communication infrastructure and a gateway station communicating a communication signal to the communication infrastructure. An airplane having an antenna coupled to a processing circuit for establishing a plurality of multiple communica... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7089000 | Multi-node wireless communication system with multiple transponding platforms A mobile wireless communications system including a plurality of individual transponding platforms all in communication with a central processing hub. A signal processed by the central processing hub is radiated simultaneously through multiple paths to a plurality o... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7068733 | Sampling technique for digital beam former A mobile satellite payload 18 and a method for sampling communication signals 26 are provided. The mobile satellite payload 18 uses a plurality of receive radiating elements 24 within a phase array antenna 22 to convert the communi... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7068155 | Apparatus and methods for near object detection Methods and apparatus are provided for detecting an object in the projected path of a vehicle. The apparatus comprises a yaw sensor configured to determine the yaw of the vehicle and an object detection sensor configured to evaluate an Actual Range Bin and to produc... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7057520 | Mobile transponder for a motor vehicle A mobile transponder for vehicles with an optical indicator providing information concerning the direction from the transponder to a vehicle. A plurality of antennas provide three-dimensional directional characteristics in order to recognize the signal from the vehi... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7046186 | Friend/foe identification system for a battlefield The invention relates to an IFF apparatus for ground applications, which comprises: (a) an encoder for forming an interrogating or response sequence of pulses, and conveying the same to a UWB transmitter; (b) an UWB transmitter for getting said interrogating or resp... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7043355 | Multisource target correlation An improved method for correlating between targets in an air traffic control system. A methods or systems according to the invention compare selected components of a first target report to the components of a second target report, produce a confidence level on each ... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7034741 | Apparatus for detecting position information of a moving object An apparatus for detecting position information of a moving object. The apparatus includes a transponder, a communication module, and a reader. The transponder is installed on a predetermined location of a road and stores position information associated with the ins... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7015856 | Device and method for SPR detection in a Mode-S transponder A Mode-S transponder is provided for detecting synchronization phase reversal (SPR) signals. The transponder includes a receiver for receiving a Mode-S signal that contains a P6 pulse having a Mode-S data segment and an SPR signal therein. The transponder also inclu... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7009553 | Device and method for alert and density altitude features in a transponder A transponder having a subsystem for providing an altitude alert function signifying a deviation from a set altitude is described. The subsystem includes an input for receiving an altitude deviation limit associated with the set altitude, a CPU receiving updated alt... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7006032 | Integrated traffic surveillance apparatus An apparatus and method for combining the functionality of multiple airborne traffic surveillance systems that operate in the L-band frequency range. The apparatus and method combine the functionality of both a Traffic Alert Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) and a M... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6975263 | Device for position determination by means of radio waves A device for determining the position of a vehicle on a roadway by using radio waves which are emitted from the device and reflected by the vehicle and received by at least two array antennas (1, 2) arranged across the roadway, wherein the array antennas (... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6954072 | Procedure and device for radiating and detecting the plurality of frequencies of electronic markers A procedure and a system for the detection of a plurality of passive electronic markers are disclosed. A marker location device capable of scanning for multiple types of electronic marker thereby increasing operator efficiency and reducing erroneous marker indicatio... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6941211 | Measurement controller for vehicle A measuring and controlling apparatus for a vehicle includes an image processing device, which is mounted on a vehicle, photographs a circumferential state of the vehicle and processes the image signal; a radar signal processing device, which radiates radio wave or ... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6911936 | Formation surveillance and collision avoidance A display system is disclosed for displaying air traffic symbology from a plurality of different types of air traffic surveillance systems on a single monitor. A display device includes a processor for generating display symbology from TCAS, SKE and ADS-B informatio... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6909875 | Multi-platform wireless communication system for a variety of different user types A mobile wireless communications system including a plurality of individual transponding nodes of various types, all in communication with a central processing hub. A local user signal is processed by the central processing hub and radiated through multiple paths to... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6900753 | Method for measuring distance and position using spread spectrum signal, and an equipment using the method By using the delay profile created by delay profile creating section 102 and the first threshold value 330 received from the first threshold value calculation section 105, the first threshold value timing detection section 103 selects onl... | 05/31/2005 |
| 6864829 | System for determining a position of a moving transponder The invention relates to a system for determining a position of a moving transponder adapted to receive a substantially stationary magnetic field signal and to transmit a further signal. The system comprises a signal generating arrangement adapted to generate said s... | 03/08/2005 |
