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6166682 Radar device and object detection method  
A radar device capable of discriminating a person possessing metals from a person having no metals by transmitting a radio wave includes a voltage controlled oscillator for generating a radio wave,...
6166678 Fourier-transform-based adaptive radio interference mitigation  
A signal process is provided for radar interference mitigation in SAR data and to perform several functions. Initially, the algorithm separately removes the average range bias of the I-channel and...
6166677 Image synthesizing method using a plurality of reflection radar waves and aircraft image radar apparatus using the method  
The present invention provides a small-size image radar apparatus to be mounted on an aircraft, having a high resolution not only the flying direction but also in the direction vertical to the...
6163292 Method of determining the ability of a medium to absorb electromagnetic waves and a sensor for detecting foreign bodies in the medium  
A method of determining the ability of a medium to absorb electromagnetic waves including placing antenna unit (10) having spaced transmitting and receiving antennas (2 and 3) on a limiting surface...
6163293 Radio wave receiving apparatus having an improved antenna resolution  
A radio wave receiving apparatus including having improved antenna resolution. The apparatus includes a signal processing circuit; a circuit for performing the Fourier transform with respect to an...
6137439 Continuous wave doppler system with suppression of ground clutter  
In a continuous wave Doppler system in which a fixed transmitter transmits a continuous wave signal to be reflected by moving targets and by fixed structure, an aircraft receives the reflective...
6127965 Method and apparatus for rejecting rain clutter in a radar system  
A method and apparatus for detecting the presence of objects in a vehicle operator's blind spots. The apparatus comprises a side-facing Doppler radar system using continuous wave (CW) transmission...
6121917 FM-CW radar  
In an FM-CW radar, a receive section has an array antenna in which a plurality of element antennas are arrayed as receive antennas, and a plurality of mixers for generating a beat signal of each...
6107957 Radar level gauge  
A FMCW radar tank level gauge (14) that measures a level (13) in a tank (10) by obtaining a set of phase shift data points of mixed transmitted waves and received waves. The set of spectral data...
6087981 Method for pulse compression with a stepped frequency waveform  
6078281 Signal processing architecture which improves sonar and pulse Doppler radar performance and tracking capability  
A Fast Fourier Transformation (FFT) processing is disclosed that measures FFT output phase standard deviation over a number of consecutive FFT runs. The system corrects FFT output phase in an...
6075480 Down range returns simulator  
A down range returns simulator for generating simulated radar reflected returns for testing advanced radar waveforms and associated signal processing. The simulator generates return signals based...
6072419 Method for the processing of the reception signal of a deramp type synthetic aperture radar  
A Deramp type radar used in synthetic aperture radar for radar imaging transmits coherently repeated linear frequency-modulated pulses and carries out a sort of pulse compression in reception by...
6064334 Clutter resistant target detector  
A ranging device is disclosed that monitors for changes in a scene of interest. The ranging device includes a transmitter that sends pulses into the scene, a receiver that generates pulse samples...
6051027 Efficient three dimensional extraction  
A layered structure is divided into a plurality of regions. Transmission line equivalents (Green's functions) in the spectral domain are formed between all regions within the layered structure. The...
6040796 Radar system installable in an automotive vehicle for detecting a target object  
A modulation signal generating section produces a modulation signal for controlling an oscillation frequency of a voltage-controlled oscillator. The modulation signal generating section comprises a...
6031485 Digital bi-static spread spectrum radar  
A bi-static spread spectrum digital radar including a transmitting antenna and a receiving antenna array separate from and positioned at a distance from the transmitting antenna. The transmitting...
6023236 Speedometer assisted patrol speed search for DSP traffic radar  
A digital signal processor (DSP) traffic radar utilizing pulses from the patrol vehicle's electronic speedometer to steer the DSP's search of Doppler return information for the patrol vehicle's...
6023235 Method for generating microwave-resolution images of moving objects by inverse synthetic aperture radar  
A method of radar imaging moving objects, especially ground traffic at airports, uses inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR). The two-dimensional location distribution of backscatter centers of...
6020843 Technique for implementing very large pulse compression biphase codes  
A processing method for use in providing improved SAR imagery at high duty factors that provides for enhanced radar sensitivity. Radar signals are transmitted that embody a high duty factor...
6018311 Noncoherent gain enhancement technique for improved detection-estimation performance  
A system and method of processing data in a sensor system which receives signal returns from pulsed coherent transmitted signals which are transmitted at a pulse repetition rate and with a pulse...
6018306 Scalable range migration algorithm for high-resolution, large-area SAR imaging  
An improved range migration algorithm or processing method that advantageously performs digital synthetic aperture radar image formation processing. The range migration algorithm provides...
5990823 Wavelet-based radar  
Method and apparatus for developing high range resolution radar target profiles. An outgoing radar waveform is encoded with coefficients corresponding to a wavelet transformation and then...
5990831 FFT implementation of digital antenna arry processing in GNSS receivers  
Disclosed are global navigation satellite system (GNSS) receivers, including digital spatial nulling arrays, and a method of providing antenna pattern outputs using the same. The digital spatial...
5982319 UHF synthetic aperture radar  
A synthetic aperture radar (SAR) which operates at UHF frequencies and which includes a two element antenna. The SAR generates a null in the backlobe of the antenna pattern at the location of a...
5977905 Target detection method and device for wideband unambiguous pulse Doppler radar  
Coherent bursts of N wideband, low repetition frequency width-modulated pulses are transmitted, and they are received with pulse compression and then sampling. For each range gate and each speed...
5963164 Monobit kernel function electronic warefare receiver for characterizing two input signals  
A broadband gigahertz frequency range radio receiver useful in electronic warfare and other applications for incoming signal detection and identification purposes. The receiver is based on Fourier...
5943006 RF image reconstruction and super resolution using fourier transform techniques  
Special mathematical techniques are used to process accurate energy measurements in the focal plane of a high quality imaging system to produce high resolution images. The improved resolution...
5940445 Method and apparatus for providing transmit diversity in a wireless communication system  
The wireless communication system transmits signals using radios (205). The radios (205) receive a signal which is formatted for transmission (602). The formatted signals from the radios (205) are...
5936576 Measurement of amplitudes and phases of signals at a high speed and with high reliability  
A multi-input amplitude and phase measuring method is disclosed for measuring the amplitudes and the phases of measurement signals at a high speed and with a high degree of reliability. Measurement...
5933446 Beamformer with adaptive processors  
The Beamformer with Adaptive Processors is a practical joint spatial-templ processor suitable for combining multiple antenna signals for a communications receiver. The invention identifies a beam...
5923279 Method of correcting an object-dependent spectral shift in radar interferograms  
A method of correcting an object-dependent spectral shift in radar interferograms has two main procedures. In the first, the phase of the interferogram is reconstructed through phase unwrapping and...
5923283 Altimetric type measurement method for use on a satellite  
An altimetric type measurement method for use on a satellite transmits a pulse towards the surface of the sea and carries out frequency transformation on the return signal resulting from the...
5910785 Method for the processing of the reception signal of a synthetic aperture radar with frequency ramps  
A Deramp type radar used in synthetic aperture radar for radar imaging transmits coherently repeated linear frequency-modulated pulses and carries out a sort of pulse compression in reception by...
5905458 FM radar apparatus  
An FM radar apparatus detects a distance to and/or a speed of a target not only from peak frequencies of beat signals in respective frequency rise and fall regions but also by reusing the peak...
5872535 Removing buoy motion from wind profiler moment  
The present invention provides an apparatus and method for correcting buoy motion in Doppler moment estimates. In the present invention, it is assumed that the buoy is stationary over short periods...
5861835 Method to improve data obtained by a radar  
A method of improving data obtained by radar by interpolation over frequency bands jammed by narrow-band interference, at which the following steps (A)-(J) are carried out. (A) It is determined...
5854602 Subaperture high-order autofocus using reverse phase  
A high-order synthetic aperture radar (SAR) autofocusing method decomposes phase error into basis function components, one order at a time. Image patches are partitioned into a plurality of...
5850202 Method for improving SAR system sensitivity in the presence of RF interference  
The sensitivity of a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) system employing stretch processing is improved in the presence of radio-frequency interference (RFI). The sequence of data processing operations...
5841395 Localized interference nulling preprocessor  
A localized interference nulling preprocessor for a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) or a Butler matrix system includes a means for forming a dot product of a signal vector and each of the preprocessed...
5835054 Ultra wideband ground penetrating radar imaging of heterogeneous solids  
A non-invasive imaging system for analyzing engineered structures comprises pairs of ultra wideband radar transmitters and receivers in a linear array that are connected to a timing mechanism that...
5812083 Non-cooperative target identification using antenna pattern shape  
A method of classification of a device by recognizing distorted signals, generally a RF antenna pattern, emanating therefrom wherein a trainable recognition system, preferably a neural network, is...
5812082 Method for azimuth scaling of SAR data and highly accurate processor for two-dimensional processing of scanSAR data  
In a method for azimuth scaling of SAR data without interpolation, raw SAR data in azimuth are multiplied with a phase function H 5 (f a ;r o ), where f a denotes the azimuth frequency and r o ...
5805106 Dual polarization wave clutter reduction  
A system 10 for reducing clutter in passive radiometric images of the ocean surface, the system including: a first polarizer 12 for generating a vertically polarized image of a selected patch of...
5805107 Cost-effective method for determining a pulse response of a high-resolution, band-limited radar channel  
For less expensive estimation the impulse response x MOS of a high-resolution, band-limited radar channel in a radar station operating with an expanded transmitted pulse a(t), from a received...
5796363 Automatic position calculating imaging radar with low-cost synthetic aperture sensor for imaging layered media  
An imaging system for analyzing structures comprises a radar transmitter and receiver connected to a timing mechanism that allows a radar echo sample to be taken at a variety of delay times for...
5793323 Two signal monobit electronic warfare receiver  
A broadband gigahertz frequency range radio receiver useful in electronic warfare and other applications for incoming signal detection and identification purposes. The receiver is based on Fourier...
5784026 Radar detection of accelerating airborne targets  
Radar detection of accelerating airborne targets in accordance with the present invention utilizing a sequence of velocity, acceleration matched filters. This system includes a transmitter...
5757309 Spatial frequency feature extraction for a classification system using wavelets  
An iterative process to determine the wavelet function and combination of ales of the function which provides data where there is a large separability compared to the separability of the data set...
5757307 Radar system for detecting distance, mutual speed and azimuth of a target obstacle  
Receivers 14 and 16 comprise mixers 14b and 16b for mixing reception signals of receiver antennas 14a and 16a with a transmission signal to generate beat signals B1 and B2, respectively. Signal...