Patents by Inventor Centre National D'etudes Spatiales (CNES)

Centre National D'etudes Spatiales (CNES) 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).

  • Publication number: 20140125521
    Abstract: A method includes estimating a position of a receiver, aboard a moving object, on the basis of the navigation signals emitted by satellites received by an antenna in an antenna array placed on the moving object, and using a three-dimensional geographical map to deduce, geometrically, on the basis of the position of the receiver and of a ray casting starting from the receiver, the number of paths reflected on walls of buildings present in a scene corresponding to an environment surrounding the receiver. The determined number of reflected paths is used to initialize an algorithm for estimating angles of arrival of multi-paths to deduce therefrom angles of arrival of the paths reflected on the walls before reaching the receiver. Optionally, the method can comprise making it possible to bound the distance information error due to a multi-path to render the estimation of direction of arrival of the signals more efficacious.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2013
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicants: CENTRE NATIONAL D'ETUDES SPATIALES (CNES), THALES
    Inventors: Thales, Centre National D'etudes Spatiales (CNES)
  • Publication number: 20130207837
    Abstract: A method includes estimating the position of the moving object on the basis of the reception of navigation signals emitted by a constellation of satellites, the navigation signals being modulated by a code and the receiver comprising a local replica of the code. The determination of the confidence indicator consists in estimating a speed of displacement of the receiver over an identified trajectory segment, deducing therefrom a Doppler delay function corresponding to the motion of the receiver, in correcting the auto-correlation function of the GNSS navigation signal received from each satellite of the constellation by means of the delay function, in comparing the corrected auto-correlation function with a theoretical auto-correlation function by applying a quadratic criterion corresponding to the confidence indicator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2013
    Publication date: August 15, 2013
    Applicants: CENTRE NATIONAL D'ETUDES SPATIALES (CNES), THALES
    Inventors: Thales, Centre National D'etudes Spatiales (CNES)