Patents by Inventor Bruno Falconnet

Bruno Falconnet 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).

  • On-board navigation system for an aerial craft including a synthetic aperture sideways looking radar
    Patent number: 5485384
    Abstract: On-board navigation system for an aerial craft of the type including an SAR synthetic aperture sideways looking radar (12). According to the invention, computing device (18) express the alignment deviation as a function of the estimation error vector .DELTA.U associated with the state vector U consisting of the components of the vectors P, V for the position and relative velocity of the vehicle, in the form of a noise-affected observation, a KALMAN-BUCY filter with gain matrix K computing the estimate of the vector of estimation errors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 1993
    Date of Patent: January 16, 1996
    Assignee: Aerospatiale Societe Nationale Industrielle
    Inventor: Bruno Falconnet