Patents by Inventor Peter C. Schutte

Peter C. Schutte 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: 5302955
    Abstract: An apparatus for combining signals from a plurality of radar installations is described. A methodology for combining signals from a pluraltiy of radar installations/sensors has been developed. This methodology provides enhanced target detection performance by properly fusing together the commensurate range-Doppler filter bins of each sensor. In this methodology, the processing of each of the individual radars in the Doppler frequency domain is provided such that a common velocity domain is obtained from each of the radars. Using a zero fill discrete Fourier transform, the velocity domain obtained from each radar is further normalized to have a common bin size. Additionally, for the higher frequency radars, the normalized velocity bins are unfolded so that each radar signal produces the same number of velocity bins in its respective velocity domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 12, 1994
    Inventors: Peter C. Schutte, Theodore Koutsoudis, Ivan Kadar