Iso-frequency Type Patents (Class 342/393)
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Patent number: 9026074Abstract: Systems and methods for distributed computing between communication devices. A femto node is treated as a trusted extension of a user equipment and performs processing tasks on behalf of the user equipment. The femto node is also treated as a trusted extension of network servers and performs services on behalf of the network servers. Tasks are thus distributed between the network servers, the femto node and one or more user equipments. The tasks include processing data, filtering incoming messages, and caching network service information.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2010Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Dilip Krishnaswamy, Subbarao V. Yallapragada, Sanjiv Nanda, Soumya Das, Samir Salib Soliman, Peerapol Tinnakornsrisuphap, Vidya Narayanan
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Publication number: 20130063308Abstract: A position location system comprises transmitters that broadcast positioning signals. Each broadcasted positioning signal comprises a pseudorandom ranging signal. The position location system includes a remote receiver that acquires and measures the time of arrival of the positioning signals received at the remote receiver. During an interval of time, at least two positioning signals are transmitted concurrently by the transmitters and received concurrently at the remote receiver. The two positioning signals have carrier frequencies offset from one another by an offset that is less than approximately twenty-five percent of the bandwidth of each positioning signal of the two positioning signals. Cross-interference between the positioning signals is reduced by tuning the remote receiver to a frequency of a selected signal of the two positioning signals and correlating the selected signal with a reference pseudorandom ranging signal matched to a transmitted pseudorandom ranging signal of the selected signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2012Publication date: March 14, 2013Inventors: Norman KRASNER, Arun RAGHUPATHY
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Patent number: 8249618Abstract: There is provided a system and method for positioning a receiver, the system comprising an antenna array coupled to a common generating and switching unit. The generating and switching unit is configured to generate a periodic signal and to switch the signal between at least two antennas, constituting a positioning signal; such that an RF receiver receiving the positioning signal and having a phase difference estimator is capable to measure phase differences between portions of the positioning signal transmitted by the spaced-apart antennas, the phase differences indicating the orientation of the received relative to the positioning system.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2006Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Assignee: Elta Systems, Ltd.Inventor: Moshe Fireaizen
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Patent number: 8179317Abstract: Using in-phase and quadrature components of a received signal, spatial and temporal information is utilized to generate a maximum likelihood coefficient from the measured data to geolocate an emitter of unknown frequency. In one embodiment an iso-Doppler contour is generated having regions of high correlation to estimate location in which the maximum likelihood calculation uses two factors, one derived from a single aperture and one derived from bearing estimates, with the region of highest correlation corresponding to emitter location. Hypothesized in-phase and quadrature signals corresponding to an emitter location describe what the signals received at the aperture should be if the emitter is of a predetermined frequency and at a predetermined location, with these estimates used in the maximum likelihood algorithm.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2009Date of Patent: May 15, 2012Assignee: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.Inventors: Arnold D. Seifer, Donald B. Spencer
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Patent number: 8004459Abstract: Embodiments provide systems and methods for determining the geolocation of an emitter on earth. A solution is obtained from two TDOA measurements that need not be acquired at the same time. A solution is obtained from a TDOA measurement and an FDOA measurement that need not be acquired at the same time and need not be coming from the same satellite pair. A location of an emitter can be determined from minimizing a cost function of the weighted combination of the six solutions derived from the two TDOA measurements and the two FDOA measurements, where the weight of each solution in the combination is determined based on the intersection angle of the two curves that define the possible locations of the emitter based on the TDOA and/or FDOA measurements.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2009Date of Patent: August 23, 2011Assignee: Glowlink Communications Technology, Inc.Inventors: Dominic K. C. Ho, Jeffrey C. Chu, Michael L. Downey
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Publication number: 20100207820Abstract: Problems The present invention relates to a distance measuring device that measures the distance between a single signal transmitting means and a single signal receiving means with high accuracy by the signal transmitting means transmitting radio frequency signals. Means for Solving the Problems A distance measuring device is comprised of a signal transmitting means (101), a signal receiving means (102) and a signal processing means (103). The signal transmitting means transmits radio frequency signals, the components of which are a plurality of measuring signals in synchronization with an output reference signal of a reference oscillator (7).Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2007Publication date: August 19, 2010Applicant: RADIO COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS LTD.Inventors: Minori Kawano, Yasunori Takeuchi, Hironori Kawano
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Publication number: 20100182200Abstract: In a geolocation system for determining a geolocation of a target emitter, a method for determining the geolocation.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2009Publication date: July 22, 2010Inventors: Carl Finney, Jeff White, Alton Keel
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Publication number: 20100097267Abstract: Embodiments provide systems and methods for determining the geolocation of an emitter on earth. A solution is obtained from two TDOA measurements that need not be acquired at the same time. A solution is obtained from a TDOA measurement and an FDOA measurement that need not be acquired at the same time and need not be coming from the same satellite pair. A location of an emitter can be determined from minimizing a cost function of the weighted combination of the six solutions derived from the two TDOA measurements and the two FDOA measurements, where the weight of each solution in the combination is determined based on the intersection angle of the two curves that define the possible locations of the emitter based on the TDOA and/or FDOA measurements.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2009Publication date: April 22, 2010Inventors: Dominic K. C. Ho, Jeffrey C. Chu, Michael L. Downey
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Publication number: 20090135059Abstract: The present disclosure provides an RTD that is released from a single primary platform to collect signals from a target emitter and relay data back to a single primary platform, enabling the precise geo-location of the target emitter to be determined in a minimal amount of time. The RTD is released from a single platform and quickly creates a long signal collection baseline between the released RTD and the single platform. Various techniques for determining geo-location may be used with the present disclosure, such as angle of arrival (AOA), time difference of arrival (TDOA), and frequency difference of arrival (FDOA) methods.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2007Publication date: May 28, 2009Inventor: Craig C.M. Chun
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Publication number: 20090111483Abstract: There is provided a system and method for positioning a receiver, the system comprising an antenna array coupled to a common generating and switching unit. The generating and switching unit is configured to generate a periodic signal and to switch the signal between at least two antennas, constituting a positioning signal; such that an RF receiver receiving the positioning signal and having a phase difference estimator is capable to measure phase differences between portions of the positioning signal transmitted by the spaced-apart antennas, the phase differences indicating the orientation of the received relative to the positioning system.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2006Publication date: April 30, 2009Applicant: Elta Systems Ltd.Inventor: Moshe Fiereizen
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Patent number: 5008679Abstract: The method of locating an unknown radio-frequency transmitter includes: (a) receipt of signals radiated from the transmitter by a plurality of receivers; (b) retransmission of the received signals to a plurality of antennas; (c) performing a time difference of arrival (TDOA) calculation which compensates for a relative delay value, which is a function of the distances from the transmitter to each of the receivers, the distances from each of the receivers to the antennas, and the speed of light; (d) performing a frequency difference of arrival (FDOA) calculation which compensates for a relative frequency value, which is a function of the relative velocity of each receiver with respect to the velocity of the Earth; (e) repeating these steps a plurality of times; and (f) determining the location of the unknown transmitter based on the plurality of TDOA and FDOA calculations.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 1990Date of Patent: April 16, 1991Assignee: Interferometrics IncorporatedInventors: John E. Effland, John M. Gipson, David B. Shaffer, John C. Webber
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Patent number: 4810947Abstract: A process and means for identifying erroneous frequency measurements made by an IFM receiver using a multi-channel delay line discriminator. Expected phase codes are compared with measured phase codes. An error signal is generated when the magnitude of deviation exceeds a predetermined amount. Preferred formulas are used to compute the expected phase codes and the deviation magnitude.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 1988Date of Patent: March 7, 1989Assignee: Litton Systems, Inc.Inventors: Stanley Gourse, Jacob Rozmaryn, Dennis L. Kershner