Patents by Inventor Gérard Thouvenel

Gérard Thouvenel 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: 6677900
    Abstract: A system for detecting mobile bodies, using digital telebroadcasting transmissions of an array of terrestrial transmitters. The digital telebroadcast transmissions include a plurality of carriers, afforded symbol-based digital modulation, processed by carrier-wise orthogonal frequency multiplexing. After its reception stages, the receiver includes a processor for performing a discrimination of backscattering the transmissions, according to distance/Doppler bins. A reference pathway receives and demodulates the direct signal received from one of the transmitters. The processor includes a Doppler distribution, the Doppler pathways of which are each assigned to a respective frequency shift, then a distance compressor that yields samples arranged in the distance/Doppler bins. After coherent Doppler integration, a postprocessing with tracking contrasts the echoes obtained in these bins, to obtain radar plots containing position/velocity information on one or more objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2004
    Assignees: Thales, Office National d'Etudes de Recherches Aerospatiales
    Inventors: Gérard Thouvenel, Marc Lesturgie, Dominique Poullin