Patents by Inventor Michael Meurer

Michael Meurer 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: 20210088671
    Abstract: The invention pertains to an antenna array system for Navigation Systems comprising a set of receiving elements, each receiving element comprising at least one antenna or more antennas, the antennas being designed for receiving electro-magnetic signals of at least one certain wavelength, whereby at least two receiving elements of said set of receiving elements are located in distance to each other of at least said one certain wavelength, whereby the signals received by said receiving elements are processed by at least one signal processing unit to thereby determine a location related information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Inventors: Michael MEURER, Marius BRACHVOGEL, Matthias HEIN, Ralf STEPHAN, Michael WEBER
  • Patent number: 9103911
    Abstract: The device for receiving signals which have carrier frequencies and codes, said signals being navigation or communication signals, has multiple individual antennas (114) for receiving a signal, each individual antenna (114) having an antenna output (116) at which the received signal is present. Furthermore, the device is provided with an analog preprocessing unit (122) for preprocessing the signals received by the individual antennas (114), said preprocessing unit (122) having signal transmitting and signal preprocessing channels (124) which are assigned to the individual antennas (114), and the device is provided with a digital signal processor (134). The device additionally has a calibration signal generating unit (148) for generating a calibration signal which, like the signals received by the individual antennas (114), has a carrier frequency and a code and which is used for calibrating the propagation time and the phase of the signal transmission paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V.
    Inventors: Michael Meurer, Manuel Cuntz
  • Patent number: 9052389
    Abstract: AltBOC-modulated satellite navigation signals transmitted in the two partial bands E5a and E5b of the so-called E5 frequency band are received using a common antenna (19) and thereafter are processed separately in an analog manner in the HF front-end in two physically different incoming signal paths for the two partial bands and then digitized and coherently summed to form a complete digital E5 band signal, which is fed to a digital signal processor, in which code acquisition and code tracking are performed using PRN reference code sequences produced in the receiver and tracking of the carrier phase is performed and raw data for the final navigation calculation are determined therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: Deutsches Zentrum Fur Luft-Und Raumfahrt E.V.
    Inventors: Michael Meurer, Manuel Cuntz
  • Publication number: 20150078421
    Abstract: The device for receiving signals which have carrier frequencies and codes, said signals being navigation or communication signals, has multiple individual antennas (114) for receiving a signal, each individual antenna (114) having an antenna output (116) at which the received signal is present. Furthermore, the device is provided with an analog preprocessing unit (122) for preprocessing the signals received by the individual antennas (114), said preprocessing unit (122) having signal transmitting and signal preprocessing channels (124) which are assigned to the individual antennas (114), and the device is provided with a digital signal processor (134). The device additionally has a calibration signal generating unit (148) for generating a calibration signal which, like the signals received by the individual antennas (114), has a carrier frequency and a code and which is used for calibrating the propagation time and the phase of the signal transmission paths.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2013
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Inventors: Michael Meurer, Manuel Cuntz
  • Publication number: 20120092212
    Abstract: AltBOC-modulated satellite navigation signals transmitted in the two partial bands E5a and E5b of the so-called E5 frequency band are received using a common antenna (19) and thereafter are processed separately in an analog manner in the HF front-end in two physically different incoming signal paths for the two partial bands and then digitized and coherently summed to form a complete digital E5 band signal, which is fed to a digital signal processor, in which code acquisition and code tracking are performed using PRN reference code sequences produced in the receiver and tracking of the carrier phase is performed and raw data for the final navigation calculation are determined therefrom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2010
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: DEUTSCHES ZENTRUM FUR LUFT-UND RAUMFAHRT E.V.
    Inventors: Michael Meurer, Manuel Cuntz
  • Patent number: 7496147
    Abstract: A method is provided for transmitting information in a radio communication system provided with at least one transmitting station (AP) and at least two receiver stations (MT). The transmitting station (AP) and the receiver stations (MT) are connected together via a radio communication interface. The transmitting stations (AP) includes a transmitting antenna with K<SB>B</SB>31 antenna elements, whereby K<SB>B</SB>?1, and the receiving stations (MT) respectively include a transmitting antenna with K<SB>M</SB> antenna elements, whereby K<SB>M</SB>?1, and which communicate via a MIMO-transmission. The transmitting signals transmitted from the antenna elements of the transmitting antenna of the transmitting station (AP) are produced in a common process and are adapted in relation to the transmitting energy to be used during radiation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2009
    Assignee: Nokia Siemens Networks GmbH & Co KG
    Inventors: Paul-Walter Baier, Christoph Arnold Jötten, Michael Meurer, Wei Qiu, Hendrik Tröger
  • Publication number: 20070073901
    Abstract: A sending station forms a send vector from a data vector having N elements by coding with an error correction code with an a-value modulation alphabet and Q elements, with a being a natural number equal to or greater than two, and sends the send vector to user equipment. The send energy able to be used for sending the send vector is distributed to the Q elements taking into consideration at least one characteristic of the error correction code such that the probability of an incorrect decoding of a receive vector received by the user equipment on the basis of the send vector sent is reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2006
    Publication date: March 29, 2007
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Paul Baier, Jochen Hahn, Michael Meurer, Tobias Weber, Wolfgang Zirwas
  • Publication number: 20050169396
    Abstract: A method is provided for transmitting information in a radio communication system provided with at least one transmitting station (AP) and at least two receiver stations (MT). The transmitting station (AP) and the receiver stations (MT) are connected together via a radio communication interface. The transmitting stations (AP) includes a transmitting antenna with K<SB>B</SB>31 antenna elements, whereby K<SB>B</SB>?1, and the receiving stations (MT) respectively include a transmitting antenna with K<SB>M</SB> antenna elements, whereby K<SB>M</SB>?1, and which communicate via a MIMO-transmission. The transmitting signals transmitted from the antenna elements of the transmitting antenna of the transmitting station (AP) are produced in a common process and are adapted in relation to the transmitting energy to be used during radiation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2003
    Publication date: August 4, 2005
    Inventors: Paul-Walter Baier, Christoph Jotten, Michael Meurer, Wei Qiu, Hendrik Troger