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7602331 Computationally efficient adaptive radar pulse compression system  
One aspect of this disclosure relates to a method for processing a received, modulated radar pulse to resolve a radar target from noise or other targets. According to an embodiment of the method, a...
7598900 Multi-spot inverse synthetic aperture radar imaging  
Providing multi-spot inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR) imagery is disclosed. Embodiments of techniques in accordance with the present disclosure may advantageously improve multiple target...
7535408 Apparatus and methods for detection of multiple targets within radar resolution cell  
A method and apparatus is operative for multiple target detection in a radar system which employs a radar waveform of two or more frequency diverse subpulses. The apparatus adds coherent processing...
7515093 Active antenna radar system  
A radar system comprising a transmit antenna, a receive antenna and a mixer for combining a signal received by said receive antenna with a reference signal to produce an output signal. The transmit...
7504984 Large scale imaging with spatially-coded waveforms  
A system for locating earth cavities, or items in a building, or structural characteristics having a plurality of transmitters that generate at least a portion of a waveform. Each transmitter...
7495598 Methods and systems for avoidance of partial pulse interference in radar  
Systems and methods for avoidance of partial pulse interference in radar. The systems and methods include a radar processor for generating control signals that direct the generation and...
7474962 Methods and systems of relative navigation for shipboard landings  
A method for guiding the approach and landing of an aircraft is provided. The method involves receiving navigation information from the aircraft, receiving navigation information from an aircraft...
7403153 System and method for reducing a radar interference signal  
A system and method are provided to reduce an interfering signal in a radar return signal for a frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar. Once the interfering signal is detected, an extent...
7362261 Linear frequency-modulated pulse radar  
A linear frequency-modulated pulse radar system is provided in which the echo signal is mixed with a de-ramp signal, in order to reduce the bandwidth. The transmission signal of the pulse radar and...
7308043 Scrambled chirp frequency jitter for feature suppression  
A method of minimizing detectability of an electronically communicated message is disclosed. A predetermined frequency modulation pattern about a nominal transmission frequency is defined. The...
7301453 Locator system and method  
A locator system includes two main components, namely, (1) a beacon tag that is readily attached to a person or article, and (2) a transportable finder or receiver/processor for sensing the...
7265711 High-frequency oscillator, high-frequency transmission-reception apparatus using the same, radar apparatus, and radar-apparatus-equipped vehicle and small boat equipped with the same  
A high-frequency oscillator that can tune oscillation characteristics is provided. A high-frequency oscillator includes a Gunn diode serving as a high-frequency oscillation element that generates...
7250900 System and method for sidelobe reduction using detect-and-subtract techniques  
A radar system and method for detecting targets using pulse-compressed signals is disclosed. In one application, the systems and methods can be used to detect one or more relatively small targets...
7248205 Radar apparatus  
A transmitter emits into an intended search space a radar wave having a predetermined frequency pulse-modulated by a trigger pulse of a predetermined width. A receiver receives a reflected wave of...
7236120 Ultra-wideband detector systems for detecting moisture in building walls  
A non-destructive detection method and system enables detecting a moisture patch located inside a building wall or the like. A transmitter generates a series of ultra-wideband pulses while an...
7199747 Generating a fine time offset using a SiGe pulse generator  
A method and apparatus for generating short electronic pulses using a modified differential trigger that is partly an analogue sinusoidal voltage and partly a selectable, DC voltage. The...
7196658 Waveform generation method, waveform generation program, waveform generation circuit and radar device  
A conventional waveform generation circuit was required to increase a number of bits or a sampling rate for a D/A converter to enhance a precision of waveform shaping, and had a problem that a cost...
7151483 System and method for concurrent operation of multiple radar or active sonar systems on a common frequency  
A system and corresponding method for the concurrent operation of multiple radar systems on a common frequency and in the same geographical area includes a waveform generator that specifies certain...
7151484 Pulse compression processor  
A pulse compression processor 20 compressing a modulated pulse signal correlately received by a receiver, includes a coefficient calculator 30 calculating a set of filtering coefficients for...
7148839 Operational bistatic radar system synchronization  
A bistatic radar has a radar transmitter at a first location on a moving platform having a motion and a radar receiver at a second location, remote from the first location. The transmitter...
7148840 Radar apparatus, radar apparatus controlling method  
A radar apparatus comprises: a transmitter unit having a high-frequency oscillating unit whose oscillation frequency is variable, and a pulse amplitude modulating unit for amplitude-modulating a...
7148841 Radar device  
A radar device includes a code generator, a transmission section, a reception section, a delay section, a despreading process section, a correlation value detection section, a target detection...
7142153 Short pulse/stepped frequency radar system  
A unique hardware architecture that combines short pulse, stepped frequency and centerline processing. The inventive architecture implements a radar system having a transmitter for transmitting...
7136013 Radio-wave radar system and adaptive cruise control system  
In a radio wave radar system using a two-frequency CW modulation method, it is possible to detect a distance between a host vehicle and a forward vehicle and to realize a stable ACC following...
7081848 Orthogonal pulse range ambiguity resolution  
A method for active ranging, such as radar, which sequentially transmits pulses of mutually different waveforms. Receive processing is performed concurrently for all the transmitted waveforms...
7079071 Radar apparatus  
A radar apparatus includes: a modulation signal generating circuit that generates a modulation signal; a carrier wave generating circuit that generates a carrier wave; a modulation circuit that...
7064703 Methods and apparatus for randomly modulating radar altimeters  
A method for randomly phase modulating a radar altimeter is described. The method includes momentarily applying a signal from a random noise source to an amplifier, applying an output of the...
7053814 RF lightwave coding system for radar pulse compression  
An apparatus for preparing a RF radar transmit waveform and for decoding RF return waveforms comprising: a RF-lightwave encoder and a decoding preprocessor to phase-encode the RF radar transmit...
7023378 Self-calibrating wideband phase continuous synthesizer and associated methods  
The synthesizer and method provide a relatively wideband swept frequency signal and include generating a first swept frequency signal with a first generator, and successively switching between...
7002511 Millimeter wave pulsed radar system  
A millimeter wave pulsed radar system includes a radar synthesizer having a voltage controlled oscillator/phase locked loop (VCO/PLL) circuit, direct digital synthesizer (DDS) circuit and...
6989782 Ultra-wideband radar system using sub-band coded pulses  
Methods and apparatus are provided for radar systems using multiple pulses that are shorter than the expected range delay extent of the target to be imaged. In one implementation, a method for...
6973355 Accurate positioner suitable for sequential agile tuning of pulse burst and CW lasers  
A positioning system including a sensor, a drive sequencer and an actuator. The sensor senses the actuator position and provides position signals to drive the sequencer which responsively computes...
6965341 High resolution SAR processing using stepped-frequency chirp waveform  
A stepped-frequency chirped waveform improves SAR groundmapping for the following reasons. Range resolution in SAR image is inversely proportional to the transmitted signal bandwidth in nominal SAR...
6956522 Pulse radar system  
A pulse radar system has a high-frequency source, which supplies a continuous high-frequency signal and is connected on the one side to a transmission-side pulse modulator and on the other side to...
6930631 Sensor front-end with phase coding capability  
A sensor front end for an electronic radar sensor is disclosed that provides for a lower parts count while providing technical functionality by using multifunction parts, i.e., parts that are used...
6894641 Radar system mounted on vehicle  
To provide a radar system mounted on a vehicle that reliably detects the reception of the interference wave with high-performance and inexpensively. There is provided a radar system mounted on a...
6891497 Chirp-based method and apparatus for performing phase calibration across phased array antenna  
A chirp-based method and apparatus measures phase variation through a reference frequency transport cable for a phased array antenna. A chirp is injected into the a signal transport path from a...
6850553 Chirp slope multiple access  
In a chip radio communication system, a novel technique for increasing the number of transmitters, or users, that can be simultaneously accommodated in the communication system and the data...
6653974 Method for clearly determining the intermediate frequency difference in a frequency-controlled radar system  
In a method for the determination of the unambiguous range for the measurement of the IF deviation in a frequency-regulated radar system, a frequency adjustment or tuning of the radar system is...
6624783 Digital array stretch processor employing two delays  
A pulse-type beamforming apparatus, such as a radar array system, is used for receiving, detecting, localizing, and/or imaging desired signals. The apparatus is used to receive wideband chirp...
6573982 Method and arrangement for compensating for frequency jitter in a laser radar system by utilizing double-sideband chirped modulator/demodulator system  
A frequency jitter compensation radar system which frequency modulates a transmitter laser beam with simultaneously generated up- and down-chirped frequency modulated signals. The frequency...
6531976 Adaptive digital beamforming radar technique for creating high resolution range profile for target in motion in the presence of jamming  
A wideband adaptive digital beamforming technique for maintaining a high range resolution profile of a target in motion in the presence of jamming utilizes a sequence of adaptively calculated...
6466159 Target detection arrangement  
Radar apparatus in which output RF signals are modulated on an optical signal prior to transmission. Incoming optical echo signals are converted into RF signals using a detector. The original...
6396436 Radar method for measuring distances between and relative speeds of a vehicle and one or more obstacles  
The present invention relates to a CW radar method for measuring distances between and relative speeds of a vehicle and one or more obstacles. The present invention further provides that the...
6208285 Pulse compressor for doppler tolerant radar  
A radar system employing Doppler tolerant radar pulses such as linear FM or hyperbolic FM chirps includes a pulse compressor configured as a digital finite impulse response filter. In one...
6195036 Pulse radio-localization system  
A pulse radar system includes a frequency-agile magnetron comprising an input for giving a feeding voltage of a magnetron tuner. A modulator connected to said magnetron forms pulses of a feeding...
6181273 Radar distance sensor  
Microwave radar: an additional modulation of the microwave signal (s (t)) provided for the emission or of the reception signal (e (t)) makes it possible to separate the payload signal from the...
6160505 Method and apparatus for converting an analog signal to a digital signal  
A generalized frequency modulation (FM) based method for converting an analog signal to a digital signal. An analog input signal is sampled at the Nyquist rate. Each sample is converted to a...
6097333 Method for range measurement and contour detection by means of microwaves  
A method provides for contactless measurement of the range between a transceiver unit for microwaves in the frequency band from 1 to 100 GHz and an object to be investigated using a pulse...
6091356 Chirp source with rolling frequency lock for generating linear frequency chirps  
A source for a linear homodyne transceiver that generates repeated linear chirps. A YIG oscillator with a main coil and an FM coil receives a basic linear current ramp at the main coil to generate...
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