System for detecting, tracking, and reconstructing signals in spectrally competitive environments

• US 8,542,555 B1
• Filed: 08/23/2010
• Issued: 09/24/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 08/09/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Charles A. Uzes
• Original Assignee: Charles A. Uzes
• Inventors: Uzes, Charles A.
• Primary Examiner(s): PIHULIC, DANIEL T
• Application Number:
  US12/806,858
• Time in Patent Office: 1,128 Days
• Field of Search: 367/127, 367/87, 367/135, 367/134, 367/93, 367/96, 342/192, 342/195, 342 61- 63, 342/67, 455/501, 455/39, 455/40, 702/22, 702/26, 375/218
• US Class Current: 367/87
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 3/04 Details
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 3/143 by vectorial combination of signals derived from differently oriented antennae
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 3/74 Multi-channel systems specially adapted for direction-finding, i.e. having a single antenna system capable of giving simultaneous indications of the directions of different signals systems in which the directions of different signals are determined sequentially and displayed simultaneously G01S3/04, G01S3/14
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 3/801 Details G01S3/82, G01S3/84, G01S3/86 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 3/802 Systems for determining direction or deviation from predetermined direction
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/246 specially adapted for base stations
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 1/36 Structural form of radiating elements, e.g. cone, spiral, umbrella; Particular materials used therewithH01Q1/08, H01Q1/14 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 21/205 providing an omnidirectional coverage turnstile aerials H01Q21/26

Abstract

A method and system for determination of the trajectory, miss distance, and velocity of a projectile using an antenna array. The present invention also includes a method and system for extracting signal vectors of simultaneously spectrally competitive component fields from resolvable transmitters; a method and system for relaying simultaneous and spectrally competitive signals from a set of transmitters on a common channel and simultaneously rebroadcasting such signals over another channel to resolvable receivers generally as a composite field; and a method and system for increasing the spectral efficiency of a cellular phone system.

Claims

1. A method for determining selected information on resolvable objects using a transmitter generating a transmitting physical wave field and a receiver outputting a received signal vector representing a model of the physical wave field containing contributions of reflections generated by the effect of said transmitting wave field on the resolvable objects, the method comprising:

providing a transmitting signal vector representing a model of the transmitted physical wave field in a neighborhood of said transmitter,

using said received signal vector to obtain resolved signal vectors representing models of the contributions of said reflections, and

using said transmitting signal vector and said resolved signal vectors to determine said selected information on said resolvable objects.

2. The method as defined in claim 1, further comprising:

using said selected information to command and control moving vehicles.

3. A system for obtaining selected information on resolvable objects using a transmitter generating a transmitting physical wave field and a receiver outputting a received signal vector representing the physical wave field containing contributions of reflections generated by the effect of said transmitting physical wave field on the objects in an antenna neighborhood, the system comprising:

means for generating a transmitting signal vector representing a model of the transmitted physical wave field in a neighborhood of said transmitter,

means for receiving said reflections,

means for obtaining resolved signal vectors representing models of the contributions of said reflections to the physical wave field from said received signal vector, and

means for comparing said transmitting signal vector and said resolved signal vectors to determine said selected information on said resolvable objects.

4. A method for aiming at least one device using a receiver to obtain a received signal vector representing a model of the physical wave field in a neighborhood of said receiver, said field containing contributions stemming from at least one resolvable object, the method comprising:

using said received signal vector to obtain at least one resolved signal vector representing said contributions of said at least one resolvable object,

using said at least one resolved signal vector to obtain selected information on said at least one resolvable object, and

using said selected information to aim said at least one device.

5. A system for aiming at least one device using a receiver to obtain a received signal vector representing a model of the physical wave field in a neighborhood of said receiver, said field containing contributions stemming from at least one resolvable object, the system comprising:

means for obtaining from the received signal vector at least one resolved signal vector representing a model of the said contributions of said at least one resolvable object to the physical wave field, means for obtaining selected information on said at least one resolvable objects from said at least one resolved signal vector, and

means for providing said selected information to aim said at least one device.