Patents by Inventor Paul Voglewede
Paul Voglewede 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).
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Patent number: 9141862Abstract: The unattended surveillance device may include a housing to be positioned for unattended surveillance, a video camera associated with or carried by the housing to capture video, and an image processor carried by the housing and cooperating with the video camera. The image processor extracts moving objects in the foreground of the captured video, generates a profile image or sequence of profile images of the extracted moving objects, compresses the sequence of profile images, and generates a surveillance information packet based upon the compressed sequence of profile images. Also, a wireless transmitter or transceiver may be associated with the image processor to transmit the surveillance information packet to a surveillance monitoring station.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2008Date of Patent: September 22, 2015Assignee: HARRIS CORPORATIONInventors: Paul Voglewede, Jeffrey Zampieron, Geoffrey Amey
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Patent number: 8331240Abstract: A method (500) is provided for enabling a promiscuous monitoring of network communications by a monitor node (MN). The method includes the steps of: generating a directed IP packet at a first node (FN); transmitting a first unicast signal including a RTS message from the FN to a second node (SN); transmitting a second unicast signal including a CTS message from the SN to the FN in response to the first unicast signal; modifying the directed IP packet by changing an IP destination address of the directed IP packet to an IP subnet broadcast address; transmitting a uni-broadcast signal including the modified directed IP packet from the FN to the IP subnet broadcast address; and receiving the uni-broadcast signal at the SN and a third node (TN). The TN is an IP-enabled device provided to monitor network communications between the FN and SN.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2007Date of Patent: December 11, 2012Assignee: Harris CorporationInventors: Paul Voglewede, Peter J. Roth
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Patent number: 8311075Abstract: An improved method is provided for decoding data in a frequency hopping communications system. The method includes: monitoring transition points between data bits in a demodulated data stream, where the data bits are transmitted to a receiver over different transmission frequencies; determining a frequency over which data bits are transmitted to the receiver; determining a reliability metric for each frequency over which data bits were received, where the reliability metric is based on transition points of data bits transmitted over a given frequency; and performing a decoding operation using the reliability metric for each frequency over which data bits were received.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2009Date of Patent: November 13, 2012Assignee: Harris CorporationInventors: Edwin McCall Leiby, III, Mark Walter Chamberlain, Joseph Shaver, Paul Voglewede
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Patent number: 7903601Abstract: An ad hoc method is provided for synchronizing a wireless network. The method involves broadcasting a first signal including a join message from a first node (FN). The method also involves saving a first timestamps in a memory device internal to the FN after broadcasting the first signal. The method further involves generating a signal including a join response message after receiving the first signal. The join response message is comprised of a second timestamp indicating a local time during which the first signal was received at the second node (SN). The method also includes the step of determining an initial time offset by computing a difference between the first timestamp and the second timestamp. The method further includes the steps of generating a request to send (RTS) message at the FN. The FN uses the initial time offset in conjunction with the RTS message to asynchronously communicate with the SN.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2007Date of Patent: March 8, 2011Assignee: Harris CorporationInventors: Paul Voglewede, Scott J. Cloutier, Todd W. Joslin, Peter J. Roth, Adam R. Kent
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Patent number: 7898408Abstract: The surveillance system includes a remote monitoring station, at least one mobile radio (e.g. a handheld radio), and one or more deployable sensors each for unattended surveillance to transmit a detection signal in response to a detected activity. A deployable gateway surveillance node includes a controller and at least one wireless transceiver cooperating therewith to transmit a notification to the remote monitoring station based upon a received detection signal, and determine and transmit a voice-message status report, based upon the received detection signal, to the at least one mobile radio identifying the deployable gateway surveillance node and corresponding deployable sensor for the received detection signal.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2008Date of Patent: March 1, 2011Assignee: Harris CorporationInventors: Michael J. Russell, David C. Swan, Paul Voglewede, Robert A. Johnson
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Publication number: 20100109863Abstract: The surveillance system includes a remote monitoring station, at least one mobile radio (e.g. a handheld radio), and one or more deployable sensors each for unattended surveillance to transmit a detection signal in response to a detected activity. A deployable gateway surveillance node includes a controller and at least one wireless transceiver cooperating therewith to transmit a notification to the remote monitoring station based upon a received detection signal, and determine and transmit a voice-message status report, based upon the received detection signal, to the at least one mobile radio identifying the deployable gateway surveillance node and corresponding deployable sensor for the received detection signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2008Publication date: May 6, 2010Applicant: Harris CorporationInventors: Michael J. Russell, David C. Swan, Paul Voglewede, Robert A. Johnson
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Publication number: 20100079594Abstract: The unattended surveillance device may include a housing to be positioned for unattended surveillance, a video camera associated with or carried by the housing to capture video, and an image processor carried by the housing and cooperating with the video camera. The image processor extracts moving objects in the foreground of the captured video, generates a profile image or sequence of profile images of the extracted moving objects, compresses the sequence of profile images, and generates a surveillance information packet based upon the compressed sequence of profile images. Also, a wireless transmitter or transceiver may be associated with the image processor to transmit the surveillance information packet to a surveillance monitoring station.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2008Publication date: April 1, 2010Applicant: Harris Corporation, Corporation of the State of DelawareInventors: Paul Voglewede, Jeffrey Zampieron, Geoffrey Amey
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Patent number: 7653117Abstract: An improved method is provided for decoding data in a frequency hopping communications system. The method includes: monitoring transition points between data bits in a demodulated data stream, where the data bits are transmitted to a receiver over different transmission frequencies; determining a frequency over which data bits are transmitted to the receiver; determining a reliability metric for each frequency over which data bits were received, where the reliability metric is based on transition points of data bits transmitted over a given frequency; and performing a decoding operation using the reliability metric for each frequency over which data bits were received.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2006Date of Patent: January 26, 2010Assignee: Harris CorporationInventors: Edwin Leiby, Mark Walter Chamberlain, Joseph Shaver, Paul Voglewede
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Publication number: 20090316754Abstract: An improved method is provided for decoding data in a frequency hopping communications system. The method includes: monitoring transition points between data bits in a demodulated data stream, where the data bits are transmitted to a receiver over different transmission frequencies; determining a frequency over which data bits are transmitted to the receiver; determining a reliability metric for each frequency over which data bits were received, where the reliability metric is based on transition points of data bits transmitted over a given frequency; and performing a decoding operation using the reliability metric for each frequency over which data bits were received.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2009Publication date: December 24, 2009Inventors: Edwin McCall Leiby, III, Mark Walter Chamberlain, Joseph Shaver, Paul Voglewede
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Patent number: 7633391Abstract: An unattended sensor is provided for use in a surveillance system. The sensor is generally comprised of: a detector that generates an electrical signal in response to a physical stimulus proximate to the sensor; a signal processor adapted to receive the electrical signal from the detector and operable to generate an event message based on the electrical signal; a transceiver operable to send and receive messages over a wireless radio link; and a channel access mechanism operable to negotiate access to the radio link in accordance with an access protocol, where the access protocol is employed by radios and other communication devices in the system.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2006Date of Patent: December 15, 2009Assignee: Harris CorporationInventors: Paul Voglewede, Scott Cloutier, Robert Post
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Publication number: 20090122709Abstract: A method (500) is provided for enabling a promiscuous monitoring of network communications by a monitor node (MN). The method includes the steps of: generating a directed IP packet at a first node (FN); transmitting a first unicast signal including a RTS message from the FN to a second node (SN); transmitting a second unicast signal including a CTS message from the SN to the FN in response to the first unicast signal; modifying the directed IP packet by changing an IP destination address of the directed IP packet to an IP subnet broadcast address; transmitting a uni-broadcast signal including the modified directed IP packet from the FN to the IP subnet broadcast address; and receiving the uni-broadcast signal at the SN and a third node (TN). The TN is an IP-enabled device provided to monitor network communications between the FN and SN.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2007Publication date: May 14, 2009Applicant: HARRIS CORPORATIONInventors: Paul Voglewede, Peter J. Roth
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Publication number: 20090122781Abstract: An ad hoc method is provided for synchronizing a wireless network. The method involves broadcasting a first signal including a join message from a first node (FN). The method also involves saving a first timestamps in a memory device internal to the FN after broadcasting the first signal. The method further involves generating a signal including a join response message after receiving the first signal. The join response message is comprised of a second timestamp indicating a local time during which the first signal was received at the second node (SN). The method also includes the step of determining an initial time offset by computing a difference between the first timestamp and the second timestamp. The method further includes the steps of generating a request to send (RTS) message at the FN. The FN uses the initial time offset in conjunction with the RTS message to asynchronously communicate with the SN.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2007Publication date: May 14, 2009Applicant: HARRIS CORPORATIONInventors: Paul Voglewede, Scott J. Cloutier, Todd W. Joslin, Peter J. Roth, Adam R. Kent
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Patent number: 7283069Abstract: An improved method is provided for identifying a repeated codeword in an incoming bit stream. The method includes: receiving an incoming bit stream having an expected codeword repeated a number of times; determining whether a group of incoming data bits correlates to the expected codeword, where each of the incoming data bits in the group need not match the corresponding data bit of the expected codeword; and determining whether the expected code word is repeated over a sequence of incoming data bits.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2006Date of Patent: October 16, 2007Assignee: Harris CorporationInventors: Joseph Shaver, Paul Voglewede, Edwin Leiby, Mark Walter Chamberlain, Eric Peach
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Publication number: 20070237210Abstract: To avoid signal jamming, a method is provided for selecting a dwell channel on a receiver in a frequency hopping communication system. The method includes: measuring a noise level on channels over which a data signal is received at the receiver; selecting a dwell channel based on the estimated noise levels, where the dwell channel having the lowest noise level amongst a group of permissible channels over which to acquire a signal from a transmitter; and tuning the receiver to the selected dwell channel during a search state in which the receiver attempts to synchronize with a transmitter.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2006Publication date: October 11, 2007Inventors: Paul Voglewede, Edwin Leiby, Mark Chamberlain, Patrick Lang, Fred Kellerman, Daniel Stephens
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Publication number: 20070216549Abstract: An improved method is provided for identifying a repeated codeword in an incoming bit stream.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2006Publication date: September 20, 2007Inventors: Joseph Shaver, Paul Voglewede, Edwin Leiby, Mark Chamberlain, Eric Peach
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Publication number: 20070217484Abstract: An improved method is provided for decoding data in a frequency hopping communications system. The method includes: monitoring transition points between data bits in a demodulated data stream, where the data bits are transmitted to a receiver over different transmission frequencies; determining a frequency over which data bits are transmitted to the receiver; determining a reliability metric for each frequency over which data bits were received, where the reliability metric is based on transition points of data bits transmitted over a given frequency; and performing a decoding operation using the reliability metric for each frequency over which data bits were received.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2006Publication date: September 20, 2007Inventors: Edwin Leiby, Mark Chamberlain, Joseph Shaver, Paul Voglewede
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Publication number: 20070195913Abstract: A novel system and method is disclosed for maintaining synchronization in a communication system in which a communication signal comprising a carrier and a data signal is sent from a transmitter to a receiver which includes a phase lock loop. The receiver compares the output of a Viterbi decoder with the output of a quick decision circuit. The Viterbi decoder, which incorporates traceback, determines the minimum aggregate Euclidean distance for multiple symbols. The quick decision circuit determines the minimum Euclidean distance for a single symbol without decoding the symbol. A delay circuit is placed in series with the quick decision circuit to compensate for the traceback delay in the Viterbi decoder. If the difference in the output signals of the Viterbi decoder and the quick decision circuit is greater than a predetermined threshold, the phase error signal in the phase lock loop is prevented from updating the phase lock loop filter.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2007Publication date: August 23, 2007Applicant: HARRIS CORPORATIONInventors: Clifford Hessel, Paul Voglewede
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Publication number: 20050207474Abstract: A system and method improves ECCM and data payload for a multi-h continuous phase modulated waveform with the addition of frequency hopping capabilities. The system and method exploit the short constraint length and rotational invariance of the multi-h CPM waveform to enable frequency hopping using current system capabilities. The transmitted data is structured such that the initial phase state of each hopping frame is in the zero state and the final phase state of each hopping frame is cycled to zero by the addition of flushing symbols and transition symbols. The transition symbols allow the oscillator to change frequency without disrupting the phase progression. The system and method uses synchronous demodulation of the transmitted data at a plurality of phase offsets and determines the best phase offset based on the total sum of the branch metrics for each symbol and phase offset.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2004Publication date: September 22, 2005Inventor: Paul Voglewede