Patents by Inventor Douglas G. DeWolf

Douglas G. DeWolf 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: 5796779
    Abstract: An adaptive signal processor (100) utilized with a receiving system (10) in a non-stationary environment having a receiver element (12) for receiving a composite signal comprised of a desire input signal and an interference signal. The invention includes a first mechanism (102) for modulating the composite signal to provide a plurality of modulated signals and to generate a plurality of synthetic channels (104). A second mechanism (126) is provided for calculating and applying a plurality of adaptive weight values to the modulated signals in the synthetic channels (104) to provide a plurality of time varying weighted signals. Finally, a third mechanism (128) is provided for combining the time varying weighted signals in the synthetic channels (104) to eliminate the interference signal from the composite signal. In a preferred embodiment, the composite signal is received by an antenna or hydrophone (12) and then digitized and stored in a memory (122).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 18, 1998
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Howard S. Nussbaum, Oleg Brovko, Douglas G. Dewolf
  • Patent number: 5311192
    Abstract: A process for cancelling the effects of noise jamming in a radar system having a dual-polarization monopulse antenna, a computer processor, and target detection algorithms, wherein the noise jamming produced by a hostile electronic countermeasure on a target is cancelled so as to detect the target in the optimum detection channel. The process consists of the steps of receiving signals from multiple monopulse polarization aperture combinations of the radar antenna, sampling the signals from the radar antenna, digitizing the sampled signals, calculating combination values based upon the samples of the digitized signals, computing several potential target detection channel signals based upon the combination values and samples of the digitized signals, applying the detection channel signals to the computer processor and selecting the optimum detection channel signal for detection of the target using the computer processing whereby the signal is then applied to target detection algorithm of the radar processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 1989
    Date of Patent: May 10, 1994
    Assignee: Hughes Aircraft Company
    Inventors: Ben B. Varga, Douglas G. DeWolf