Patents by Inventor Anne LE MEUR

Anne LE MEUR has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 10921415
    Abstract: The invention relates to the method for determining the direction of arrival of radio signals in the presence of aliasing, the method using an interferometric array (12) with four antennas (16) with identical diagrams, and sampling by two distinct sampling frequencies per antenna (16), the method also comprising, for all of the detected wanted signals: the determination of the interference situation for each antenna (16), for the antennas (16) other than the antenna (16) affected by the double interference, the phase of the wanted signal, and for any antenna (16) affected by the double interference, the estimate of the phase of the wanted signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: THALES
    Inventor: Anne Le Meur
  • Patent number: 10560073
    Abstract: This method for the non-linear estimation of no more than two mixed signals from separate sources, the time/frequency representation of which shows an unknown non-zero proportion of zero components, using an array made up of P>2 antennas, when the directional vectors U and V of the sources emitting these signals are additionally known or estimated, includes the following steps: a) Calculating the successive discrete Fourier transforms of the signal received by the antennas and sampled to obtain a time-frequency P-vector grid of the signal; each element of the grid being referred to as a box and containing a complex vector X forming a measurement; b) For each box, calculating the conditional expectation estimator of the signal, or of the signals, from the measurement X and an a priori probability density for the signals that is a Gaussian mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: THALES
    Inventors: Anne Le Meur, Jean-Yves Delabbaye
  • Publication number: 20190004140
    Abstract: The invention relates to the method for determining the direction of arrival of radio signals in the presence of aliasing, the method using an interferometric array (12) with four antennas (16) with identical diagrams, and sampling by two distinct sampling frequencies per antenna (16), the method also comprising, for all of the detected wanted signals: the determination of the interference situation for each antenna (16), for the antennas (16) other than the antenna (16) affected by the double interference, the phase of the wanted signal, and for any antenna (16) affected by the double interference, the estimate of the phase of the wanted signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2016
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Applicant: THALES
    Inventor: Anne LE MEUR
  • Patent number: 9991919
    Abstract: A passive detection method implemented by a device comprising one or more sensors comprises a step of sampling signals received by each sensor using various sub-Nyquist sampling frequency values, a step of transforming the sampled signals to the frequency domain by discrete Fourier transform, the frequency pitch ?F being chosen constant, and, for each time/frequency box, a step of calculating the normalized power in each reception channel, a step of calculating the quadratic sum of the calculated powers while taking into account the power of a possible parasitic signal, and a thresholding step carried out so as to ensure a given probability of false alarm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: THALES
    Inventors: Anne Le Meur, Jean-Yves Delabbaye
  • Publication number: 20180026607
    Abstract: This method for the non-linear estimation of no more than two mixed signals from separate sources, the time/frequency representation of which shows an unknown non-zero proportion of zero components, using an array made up of P>2 antennas, when the directional vectors U and V of the sources emitting these signals are additionally known or estimated, includes the following steps: a) Calculating the successive discrete Fourier transforms of the signal received by the antennas and sampled to obtain a time-frequency P-vector grid of the signal; each element of the grid being referred to as a box and containing a complex vector X forming a measurement; b) For each box, calculating the conditional expectation estimator of the signal, or of the signals, from the measurement X and an a priori probability density for the signals that is a Gaussian mixture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2015
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Inventors: Anne LE MEUR, Jean-Yves DELABBAYE
  • Patent number: 9800317
    Abstract: A method for detecting an electromagnetic signal by an antenna array with pattern diversity and a device for implementing this method is provided. The method according to the invention requires no prior knowledge of the type of signal and can be implanted on an antenna array with pattern diversity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: THALES
    Inventors: Anne Le Meur, Jean-Yves Delabbaye
  • Patent number: 9660715
    Abstract: A method for detecting an electromagnetic signal comprises: applying to the received electromagnetic signal a plurality of time-frequency transforms, for each time/frequency cell of a given set of cells, calculating the energy of the vector made up of the spectra over all of the antenna elements, applying the following nonlinear function T to the result of the energy calculation: if the norm of the energy is below a first predetermined threshold s, the result of the function T is zero, if the norm of the energy is above or equal to the first threshold s, the result of the function T is equal to the norm of the energy minus the value of the first threshold s, integrating, over the set of time/frequency cells, the result of the nonlinear function T, comparing the result of the integration to a second predetermined threshold, to detect the presence of the signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: THALES
    Inventors: Anne Le Meur, Jean-Yves Delabbaye, Luc Bosser
  • Publication number: 20170033822
    Abstract: A passive detection method implemented by a device comprising one or more sensors comprises a step of sampling signals received by each sensor using various sub-Nyquist sampling frequency values, a step of transforming the sampled signals to the frequency domain by discrete Fourier transform, the frequency pitch ?F being chosen constant, and, for each time/frequency box, a step of calculating the normalized power in each reception channel, a step of calculating the quadratic sum of the calculated powers while taking into account the power of a possible parasitic signal, and a thresholding step carried out so as to ensure a given probability of false alarm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2015
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Applicant: THALES
    Inventors: Anne LE MEUR, Jean-Yves DELABBAYE
  • Publication number: 20160197664
    Abstract: A method for detecting an electromagnetic signal comprises: applying to the received electromagnetic signal a plurality of time-frequency transforms, for each time/frequency cell of a given set of cells, calculating the energy of the vector made up of the spectra over all of the antenna elements, applying the following nonlinear function T to the result of the energy calculation: if the norm of the energy is below a first predetermined threshold s, the result of the function T is zero, if the norm of the energy is above or equal to the first threshold s, the result of the function T is equal to the norm of the energy minus the value of the first threshold s, integrating, over the set of time/frequency cells, the result of the nonlinear function T, comparing the result of the integration to a second predetermined threshold, to detect the presence of the signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2014
    Publication date: July 7, 2016
    Inventors: Anne Le Meur, Jean-Yves Delabbaye, Luc Bosser
  • Publication number: 20160191139
    Abstract: A method for detecting an electromagnetic signal by an antenna array with pattern diversity and a device for implementing this method is provided. The method according to the invention requires no prior knowledge of the type of signal and can be implanted on an antenna array with pattern diversity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2014
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Applicant: THALES
    Inventors: Anne LE MEUR, Jean-Yves DELABBAYE