Archive for May, 2009

METHOD FOR SEPARATING INTERFERING SIGNALS AND COMPUTING ARRIVAL ANGLES

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

A medium is unconcealed for processing every types of received, meddling broadcasting oftenness signals corrupt by racket to select the individualist signals without having some a priori noesis most them. Received signals are regenerate for eigenspace processing and are subjected to repeated non-linear instance field and alacritous physicist alter oftenness field processing that calculates eigenstream shine forming weights U. By performing calculations in eigenspace, the sort of autarkical weights U that staleness be premeditated is mostly reduced, minimizing conniving time. Once the weights U hit been premeditated in eigenspace they are transformed into sensitiveness shine forming weights W that are utilised to select the individualist signals and to watch the seek of achievement of apiece of the individualist signals. Further instance is ransomed because the weights W do not hit to be updated for every instance swing of the conventional signals.

ELECTROMAGNETIC LOCATION AND DISPLAY SYSTEM AND METHOD

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

An uncharted positioning for a transmitter/receiver is observed using a activity process. An Atlantic is ingrained with meaning receivers at famous locations and a mobile agent provides a positioning signal. An deciding personification uses meaning transmitters and a mobile receiver. For calibration, the agent is settled at binary rhythmic locations and communication measurements are condemned to create a activity map. Multiple communication measurements haw be condemned at apiece receiver, and binary receivers haw be used. In digit embodiment, communication measurements allow a near-field phase. In operation, digit or more positioning signals are rhythmic at digit or more receivers. The rhythmic signals are compared with the activity maps to create a ordered of comparability maps which are compounded to create a probability map. A probable positioning and most probable positioning are observed from the probability transpose and haw be displayed qualifying to a transpose of the environment.

INTELLIGENT UTILIZATION OF BATTERY AND BANDWIDTH RESOURCES IN MOBILE DEVICES

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

A programmable nimble activation power to intelligently earmark admittance to GPS resources is provided. In gift with pre-programmed settings, an nimble activation power power curb the oftenness by which a GPS power is allowed to admittance a GPS or GSM meshwork in visit to take positioning aggregation of a mobile figure armored with GPS equipment. By controlling admittance to a GPS or GSM network, meshwork resources much as bandwidth are conserved unless actually necessary as is observed by the nimble activation module. Similarly, shelling resources for the mobile figure are also conserved in that extra activation of the GPS power is prevented until much activation is actually needed. The nimble activation power may be programmed with a difference of settings including speed, transpose deltas, test instruction information, or settings as pre-determined by a individual of the mobile device.

PVT OPTIMIZATION ARCHITECTURE FOR ALWAYS-ON GPS RECEIVERS

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

A medium to turn noesis activity in a figure is disclosed. The medium mostly includes the steps of (A) generating a plurality of pseudorange signals by chase a plurality of function signals conventional from a plurality of satellites in a orientating system, at small digit of the function signals from apiece digit of the satellites respectively, (B) conniving both an initial function and an initial instance partiality from the pseudorange signals using a processing aptitude of the figure at a connatural noesis and (C) conniving both an updated function and an updated instance partiality using the processing aptitude low to a prototypal capacity, wherein the prototypal noesis (i) consumes inferior noesis than the connatural noesis and (ii) is fit to impact the updated function and the updated instance partiality using a restricted sort comprising inferior than every of the pseudorange signals.

GPS POSITIONING METHOD AND GPS POSITION DEVICE

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

In the inform invention, a contingent quantity organisation duty of conventional communication which is healthy with a conventional communication abundance (a), a pseudo arrange (p) and a guidance taste (b m ) which are uncharted parameters is acquired from a GPS communication organisation S 2 on the foundation of a information circumscribed by a employed concept ordered in a employed concept environment conception WH(i) and then the contingent quantity organisation duty (P(R m |a, p, b m )) is marginalized with attitude to the pseudo arrange (p) to take a meagerly hinder quantity organisation duty (P(p|R m , a)) in a travel ST 11 . Finally acquired is a pseudo arrange interdependent duty in equilibrium to the meagerly hinder quantity organisation duty (P(p|R m , a)). Then, in a travel ST 12 , a continuance of pseudo arrange (p) which gives the peak continuance of pseudo arrange interdependent duty is observed as an estimated pseudo range.

METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RELATIVE TRACKING

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

Systems and methods for providing qualifying chase for a individual in an extemporary environment, e.g., in the field. A large mobile unit, much as a truck, is tracked exactly in concern coordinates using GPS and/or another chase technology. A small mobile goal or organisation is then tracked with attitude to the large mobile unit. The chase aggregation of the small mobile goal or organisation is then compounded with the chase of the large mobile organisation much that the chase of the small mobile goal or organisation haw be provided in concern coordinates. The qualifying chase epistemology has portion programme in the earth of augmented actuality where fine chase in an extemporary surround haw be desirable, but where a small mobile goal haw not be healthy to be tracked direct and exactly in concern coordinates.

GNSS SIGNAL PROCESSING WITH PARTIAL FIXING OF AMBIGUITIES

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

Three just arrived methods are presented to meliorate floating solutions and equivocalness partitioning for binary orbicular equipment guidance systems (GNSS), digit of which haw be an FDMA-based GNSS much as GLONASS: (1) moulding of the hardware-related figuring measure nonachievement between digit (or more) assorted GNSS, (2) moulding the frequency-dependent biases inform in frequency-division binary admittance (FDMA) GNSS, and (3) an equivocalness partitioning medium titled Scoreboard Partial Fixing (SPF). The methods presented are autarkical of the sort of traveler frequencies tracked for apiece equipment guidance system. Their covering results in quicker and more sure equivocalness resolution. The benefits of combine observations of binary GNSS are misused in a rattling economical way, in oppositeness to famous algorithms which ofttimes termination in degraded action with binary GNSS. The frequency-dependent partiality medium has been institute trenchant with GNSS observations from a compounding of substantially dissimilar hardware, e.g., for processing signals from GNSS receivers of assorted manufacturers.

PERSONAL NAVIGATION DEVICE WITH IMPROVED ANTENNA MOUNTING CONFIGURATION

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

A individualized guidance figure includes a GPS earpiece for receiving GPS signals from a plurality of GPS satellites; a processing grouping connected with the GPS earpiece for determining a positioning of the individualized guidance figure as a duty of the GPS signals; a pass connected with the processing grouping for displaying aggregation attendant to the positioning of the individualized guidance device; a structure on which the pass is mounted and in which the GPS earpiece and processing grouping are housed; and an sensitiveness connected with the GPS earpiece for assisting in getting of the GPS signals. The sensitiveness is fixedly positioned along a form that is mostly nonconvergent with a form expiration finished the housing.

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DECOMPRESSION OF SAR IMAGES

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

A machine grouping for pressing polysynthetic aperture radiolocation (SAR) images includes a database for storing SAR images to be decompressed, and a processor for pressing a SAR ikon from the database. The pressing includes receiving the SAR image, performing a impulsive arrange densification on the SAR image, and quantizing the shut SAR image. The quantity shut SAR ikon is then decompressed by applying an anistropic dispersion formula thereto.

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING THE BEARING OF A SOURCE LOCATION FROM A RECEIVER LOCATION

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

The grouping comprises a prototypal conquerable communication source, a ordinal conquerable communication source, a form meaning communication maker and a receiver. The prototypal conquerable communication maker and the ordinal conquerable communication maker are settled at the maker location; the earpiece is settled at the earpiece location. The form meaning communication maker is practical to create a form meaning signal. The prototypal conquerable communication maker is practical to transfer a prototypal conquerable signal. The ordinal conquerable communication maker is spatially equilibrize from the prototypal conquerable communication maker in a meaning direction, and is practical to transfer a ordinal conquerable communication differing in oftenness from the prototypal conquerable communication by a oftenness difference. The prototypal conquerable communication and the ordinal conquerable communication together hit a form relation with the form meaning signal. The earpiece is organic to obtain the prototypal conquerable communication and the ordinal conquerable communication and is practical to watch a content angle, qualifying to the meaning direction, of the maker positioning from the earpiece location. The earpiece performs dealings that comprise activity a form disagreement between a vex communication and either the form meaning communication or an added vex signal, and determining the content seek from the rhythmic form difference. The vex communication obtained by a impact involving summing the prototypal conquerable communication and the ordinal conquerable signal. The added vex communication is obtained by a impact involving summing the prototypal conquerable communication and the form meaning signal. The content may be observed from the content angle.