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8184037 |
Radar system for aircraft
Radar system for providing an aircraft with a facility for in use at least detecting another aircraft in at least one monitorable zone within a region surrounding of that aircraft, wherein the...
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8169357 |
Transmission scheduling for ADS-B ground systems
System and methods for reducing redundant messages broadcast in an Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) system. For a given target, a controller determines the relevant customers that...
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8149154 |
System, method, and software for performing dual hysteresis target association
In certain embodiments, a method includes receiving first track information comprising data for a particular aircraft track. The method further includes receiving a first radar plot comprising...
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8149141 |
Method for updating audio communication frequencies between aircraft and ATC stations on the ground
The present invention relates to a method for automatically preparing an update of audio communication frequencies between aircraft and ATC stations on the ground, a method making it possible to...
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8149086 |
Security systems and methods relating to travelling vehicles
There is provided a method for identifying, at the moment of verification, the situation of a threat to a protected ground, airspace and/or sea limits by an approaching ground vehicle, aircraft or...
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8138967 |
Multilateration system and method
A multilateration system and method includes a plurality of receiver stations for receiving signals from an aircraft, and a controller that derives the position of the aircraft by applying a...
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8130135 |
Bi-static radar processing for ADS-B sensors
A system and technique to derive a position of a non-ADSB equipped aircraft using ADS-B information provided from an ADSB equipped aircraft and bi-static radar processing techniques.
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8102302 |
Mode 5 detection process using phase and amplitude correlation
A receiver in a mode 5 air traffic control system provides amplitude and phase signal outputs a digital data stream containing preamble and flight information from data transmitted from an...
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8102301 |
Self-configuring ADS-B system
Techniques are described that allow information to be acquired by an ADS-B system of an aircraft without the installation of ADS-B dedicated flight crew controls or wired data interfaces in the...
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8077073 |
Pulse detecting equipment
A pulse detecting equipment includes a log compression processor (105) for logarithm-converting signal levels of a reception signal received at an antenna and input therefrom, with maintained...
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8068039 |
Flight track display system using data from a plurality of sources
Described is a system and method for displaying flight track data. The system and method include a data feed arrangement to receive target data points from a first data source and a second data...
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8063816 |
Method and apparatus to improve the ability to decode ADS-B squitters through multiple processing paths
A system is delineated comprising a TCAS receiver having one or more filters, one or more amplifiers and one or more A/D converters, the one or more A/D converters for digitizing analog data into...
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8054215 |
Precision registration for radar
A precision radar registration (PR2) system and method that employs highly accurate geo-referenced positional data as a basis for correcting registration bias present in radar data. In one...
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8046165 |
Device for assisting in the navigation of an aircraft in an airport zone
The invention relates to a device for assisting in the navigation of an aircraft in an airport zone comprising a surface navigation system and means of acquiring in real time, while navigating on...
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8035547 |
System and method of assisted aerial navigation
A system and method of providing aerial navigation. Techniques are described for receiving global positioning system data, receiving local positioning system data such as instrument landing system...
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8031105 |
Systems and methods for enhanced ATC overlay modulation
Embodiments of the present invention disclose systems and methods for providing an enhanced data link using overlaid modulation. Through embodiments of the present invention, existing ATC (or...
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8004452 |
Methods and apparatus for coordinating ADS-B with mode S SSR and/or having single link communication
Methods and apparatus for an ADS-B system having a single link for communication and/or ADS-B/Mode-S coordination. With this arrangement, the system communication is efficiently used.
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8004427 |
System and method for communicating an aircraft's intended path to the runway to direct the aircraft along the runway
In a method of dynamically guiding an aircraft the intended path of the aircraft may be broadcast along at least one of a runway and a taxiway. The broadcasted intended path of the aircraft along...
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7979200 |
Managing an air-ground communications network with air traffic control information
Systems and methods that coordinate assignments of aircraft operating within a controlled airspace to ground radios are provided. In one embodiment, such a system includes an air traffic control...
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7974745 |
Avionic aviation system with a ground station for automatic elimination of resultant failures in aircraft, and corresponding method
An avionic aviation system including: a ground station that is linked to an aircraft via a wireless interface; wherein the ground station includes, a receiver that receives, via a wireless...
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7970410 |
Method and apparatus for remote initiation of ARINC 615 downloads
A method and apparatus for remotely downloading data from a selected one of a plurality of avionics line replaceable units (LRUs) on an aircraft. In one configuration, a method includes...
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7970507 |
Method and system for autonomous tracking of a mobile target by an unmanned aerial vehicle
This invention provides a system and method for autonomously tracking a moving target from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with a variety of airframe and sensor payload capabilities so that the...
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7965223 |
Forward-looking radar system, module, and method for generating and/or presenting airport surface traffic information
A present novel and non-trivial system, module, and method for generating and/or presenting airport surface traffic information presenting using a forward-looking aircraft radar system are...
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7961136 |
Automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) network infrastructure, ground station and situation display software deployment and evaluation activity
A method and system that receives and processes ADS-B data from one or more aircraft is disclosed. The system may include one or more ground stations that receives data from one or more aircraft...
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7961135 |
Systems and methods for air traffic surveillance
A collision avoidance system according to one aspect of the present invention comprises a user interface, a plurality of sensors, and a computer system in communication with the user interface and...
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7956795 |
Transmission scheduling for ADS-B ground systems
System and methods for reducing redundant messages broadcast in an Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) system. For a given target, a controller determines the relevant customers that...
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7940205 |
Method using radar to detect a known target likely to be positioned at approximately a given height, near other targets positioned at approximately the same height
Using a radar to detect a known target likely to be positioned at approximately a predetermined height close to other targets, these other targets also being positioned at approximately the...
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7932853 |
System and method for identifying incursion threat levels
An aircraft weather radar system for displaying an indication of a threat level presented by an obstacle to the aircraft on an electronic display. The weather radar system includes a radar antenna...
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7908042 |
Methods and apparatus for wireless upload and download of aircraft data
A method for wirelessly communicating data between a plurality of avionics units on an aircraft and a data communication apparatus. The method includes wirelessly communicating download data for...
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7904082 |
ACARS messages over iridium
A system in a method are provided for sending and receiving messages between a point located on the ground and a point located on an aircraft via an Iridium Short Burst Data Service. The messages...
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7904081 |
ACARS messages over iridium
A system in a method are provided for sending and receiving messages between a point located on the ground and a point located on an aircraft via an Iridium Short Burst Data Service. The messages...
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7898467 |
Method and device for simulating radio navigation instruments
The device (405) for behavior simulation of a radio navigation system, without the latter being installed on an aircraft, comprising a means (410) for determining a position of the aircraft,...
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7889114 |
Radar target processing reduction systems and methods using cooperative surveillance sources
Systems and methods for reducing radar target processing. The systems include a processor configured to receive a first input from a cooperative surveillance source and a second input from a radar...
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7880667 |
Methods and apparatus for using interferometry to prevent spoofing of ADS-B targets
Methods and apparatus for preventing spoofing of targets, such as aircraft, in an air traffic control system. In one embodiment, first and second antennas at respective ground stations can be used...
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7876259 |
Automatic dependent surveillance system secure ADS-S
An air traffic control automatic dependent, WAAS/GPS based, surveillance system (ADS), for operation in the TRACON airspace. The system provides encryption protection against unauthorized reading...
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7868813 |
Multi-use bearing and range line
A method (400), a system and a computer program product are disclosed for graphically displaying air traffic control information in an air traffic control system. Information about objects in an...
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7868817 |
Radar system for obstacle avoidance
A radar system comprises a transmitter antenna configured to transmit a radio frequency (RF) signal, a first receiver antenna, and a second receiver antenna. Each of the first and second receiver...
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7855675 |
Method and device for detecting an environning aircraft
A radar unit on board an aircraft scans a scan area of surrounding space relative to a runway to detect any nearby aircraft and a unit presents to a pilot an indication of such detection of the...
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7847722 |
Secondary surveillance radar and method of analyzing replies for secondary surveillance radar
Provided is a secondary surveillance radar with an improved capability of eliminating an unnecessary Mode A/C target report, which includes a transmission unit transmitting interrogations, a...
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7813845 |
Airport taxiway navigation system
A method and system for providing taxiway navigational information to a crewmember of an airplane taxiing at an airport. An airport taxiway navigation system (“ATNS”) that executes on an onb...
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7791531 |
VOR monitoring receiving apparatus and VOR monitor receiving method
A VOR monitoring receiving apparatus includes a receiving circuit for receiving a field signal from a VOR apparatus, and outputting content of the field signal to a plurality of signal systems,...
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7786900 |
Method of aiding navigation for aircraft in an emergency situation
Navigation of an aircraft is facilitated through the displaying on a map of an over flown region, and of the limits of zones within range of the aircraft in an emergency situation. The points of...
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7768447 |
Radar apparatus and the like
Methods and apparatuses process sensing signals. A method for redrawing a sensing image when a range is or has been changed, according to one aspect of the present invention, records the sensing...
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7769376 |
Wireless, ground link-based aircraft data communication system with roaming feature
A flight information communication system has a plurality of RF direct sequence spread spectrum ground data links that link respective aircraft-resident subsystems, in each of which a copy of its...
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7755532 |
Methods and apparatus for assignment and maintenance of unique aircraft addresses for TIS-B services
Methods and apparatus for assigning a pseudo address to an aircraft not equipped with an ADS-B transponder and maintaining the assigned pseudo address over a number of regions each supported by...
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7746268 |
Mode S secondary surveillance radar
A transmitter (13) operates in an immediate scan after an initial acquisition or detection of an altered aircraft ID by a changed flight status, to transmit to an aircraft a sequence of...
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7742846 |
Surface contact override landing scheme for a FBW rotary-wing aircraft
A method of transitioning from a complex response flight state to a ground operation control state. Pilot intent is determined through collective position information to control the transition. An...
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7724178 |
Traffic alert collision avoidance system (TCAS) devices and methods
A device for determining the bearing of a vehicle using Inertial Reference Unit (IRU) and Traffic Alert Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) data. The device includes a means to communicate with the...
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7688250 |
Method for pre-detecting responses in a secondary radar or application to the detection of mode S responses
The invention relates to a method for pre-detecting responses in a secondary radar. It applies in particular to the detection of mode S responses. An aim of the invention is to process the signals...
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7623957 |
System, method, and computer program product for optimizing cruise altitudes for groups of aircraft
Embodiments provide systems, methods, and computer program products for optimizing cruise altitudes for multiple aircraft. The embodiments may be used for optimizing cruise altitudes of multiple...
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