Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Adaptative antenna assembly for improving precision of a GNSS receiver in a perturbated environment
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Application No.: US15596676Application Date: 2017-05-16
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Publication No.: US10656283B2Publication Date: 2020-05-19
- Inventor: Nicolas Capet , François-Xavier Marmet
- Applicant: CENTRE NATIONAL D'ETUDES SPATIALES
- Applicant Address: FR Paris
- Assignee: CENTRE NATIONAL D'ETUDES SPATIALES
- Current Assignee: CENTRE NATIONAL D'ETUDES SPATIALES
- Current Assignee Address: FR Paris
- Agency: Meagher Emanuel Laks Goldberg & Liao, LLP
- Priority: com.zzzhc.datahub.patent.etl.us.BibliographicData$PriorityClaim@97c263f
- Main IPC: G01S19/22
- IPC: G01S19/22 ; G01S19/26 ; G01S19/36 ; H01Q3/36 ; G01S17/86 ; G01S13/86 ; H04N5/232 ; H04N5/33

Abstract:
The invention discloses an antenna assembly comprising one or more sensors, possibly a fish-eye camera which produces images of the sky above the antenna, said images being processed to identify open sky and occulted sky areas, said identification being used to generate an antenna gain pattern shape wherein null zones are placed on the occulted sky areas, so as to eliminate the GNSS signals which are affected by multipath reflection. The antenna assembly of the invention may be used with any GNSS receiver of the prior art. No specific data on the location of the receiver or its orientation is needed to perform the method of the invention, while in some embodiments, it may be useful to send some information on the number of satellites in view in the open sky.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170343677A1 ADAPTATIVE ANTENNA ASSEMBLY FOR IMPROVING PRECISION OF A GNSS RECEIVER IN A PERTURBATED ENVIRONMENT Public/Granted day:2017-11-30
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