Patents Assigned to IMRA Europe S.A.
  • Patent number: 7957496
    Abstract: A communications receiver may include an adaptive filter unit for removing coherent interference components from a received signal. In the absence of a signal of interest, the filter may adapt dynamically to remove current interference components. When a signal of interest is detected, the filter may be controlled to stop (or at least reduce) its adaptation, to prevent removal of the signal of interest. The received signal may be down-converted to a complex baseband by conditioning circuitry. A detector may detect the signal of interest, and control the filter. Autocorrelation may be used to estimate a characteristic of the signal of interest in the complex baseband. The detector may include hysteresis to react quickly to the start of signal of interest, and more slowly to an end of the signal of interest. The signal of interest may be a frequency shift keyed (FSK) signal. A demodulator may demodulate FSK components based on the autocorrelation result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: IMRA Europe S.A.
    Inventors: Philippe Loiseau, Michel Gaeta, Luc Haumonte
  • Patent number: 7623604
    Abstract: A communications receiver may include an adaptive filter unit for removing coherent interference components from a received signal. In the absence of a signal of interest, the filter may adapt dynamically to remove current interference components. When a signal of interest is detected, the filter may be controlled to stop (or at least reduce) its adaptation, to prevent removal of the signal of interest. The received signal may be down-converted to a complex baseband by conditioning circuitry. A detector may detect the signal of interest, and control the filter. Autocorrelation may be used to estimate a characteristic of the signal of interest in the complex baseband. The detector may include hysteresis to react quickly to the start of signal of interest, and more slowly to an end of the signal of interest. The signal of interest may be a frequency shift keyed (FSK) signal. A demodulator may demodulate FSK components based on the autocorrelation result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2009
    Assignee: IMRA Europe S.A.
    Inventors: Philippe Loiseau, Michel Gaeta, Luc Haumonte
  • Patent number: 5808177
    Abstract: The invention is related to a method for controlling a device for the ultrasound detection of objects in air, said device comprising a plurality of transducers, used as transmitters and adapted to operate in a phased grid, and at least one transducer, used as a receiver, which are mounted on a support, wherein, prior to at least one detection operation, a calibration step is carried out in order to ascertain a structural phase shift of the transmitter with respect to the reference transmitter, which is then memorized so as to later be able to correct the theoretical phase shifts of the transmitters from the structural phase shift value when shots are ordered later.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 15, 1998
    Assignee: Imra Europe S.A.
    Inventor: Pierre Bonnefoy