Patents by Inventor Thomas R. Kronhamn

Thomas R. Kronhamn 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: 5512909
    Abstract: A method for determining the direction to a signal source by cooperation between a first device which determines the direction to the signal source with a low angular accuracy and a second device which determines the direction to the signal source with a high angular accuracy. In a first step, the direction to the signal source is determined within a certain angular range and, through analysis of the signal transmitted from the signal source, the category of the signal source is determined. In a subsequent second step, an angular search for a signal source of said category is performed within the angular range, in which the search is interrupted in the direction in which a signal of the category is detected. In a subsequent third step, the detected signals are correlated with respect to time. When correlation is present, the direction to the signal source is determined by determination of the direction in which the signal source is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 30, 1996
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson
    Inventor: Thomas R. Kronhamn
  • Patent number: 5504489
    Abstract: A method for determination of positions of measurement objects from a number of measurements of the directions to the measurement objects made at separate points in time. During the initial measurements of the directions to the measurement objects, a number of assumed areas, within which the measurement objects are assumed to be located, are established along the direction to each measurement object. Subsequent measurements of the directions to the measurement objects are performed from at least two different measurement stations, which between the points in time are moved along different paths. In connection with the measurement of the directions to the measurement objects, the positions of the assumed areas are compared with the expected appearances of the measurement objects, and the assumed areas which exhibit the best correlation to the expected appearances of the corresponding measurement object are assumed to represent the positions of the measurement objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 2, 1996
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson
    Inventor: Thomas R. Kronhamn