Patents by Inventor Thierry Aste

Thierry Aste 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: 6239746
    Abstract: A process and device related to multisensor radio direction finding receivers usable in radio communication systems including several emission sources. The process and device isolate the contribution of each emission source in sensor signals so as to perform direction finding on a single emission source only, based on learning sequences inserted into waveforms emitted by each of the emission sources. Such a process and device may find particular application to cellular communication networks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2001
    Assignee: Thomson-CSF
    Inventors: François Pipon, Jean-Jacques Monot, Pascal Chevalier, Thierry Aste
  • Patent number: 6021334
    Abstract: According to this method for transmitting a digital signal by a base station equipped with a multi-element antenna to a mobile, in the presence of interference sources and background noise, at least one frequency transposition operator is calculated which approximately transforms one reception calibration table into one transmission or reception calibration table; statistical data are calculated on the basis of the signals received by the various elements, originating from the mobile and the interference sources; for this mobile, an optimum set of spatial weightings is calculated on the basis of the statistical data, the frequency transposition operator, and a criterion for reinforcing the useful signal and reducing the interference sources; the digital signal is weighted on the basis of the optimum set of weightings, then it is transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2000
    Assignee: France Telecom
    Inventors: Thierry Aste, Luc Fety, Philippe Forster, Sylvie Mayrargue