Invention Grant
- Patent Title: System for tracking an object using pulsed frequency hopping
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Application No.: US14568390Application Date: 2014-12-12
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Publication No.: US09933509B2Publication Date: 2018-04-03
- Inventor: Edward L. Hill , Guohua Min , Harry Lee Deffebach, III
- Applicant: Position Imaging, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US NH Portsmouth
- Assignee: POSITION IMAGING, INC.
- Current Assignee: POSITION IMAGING, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US NH Portsmouth
- Agency: Lando & Anastasi, LLP
- Main IPC: G01S3/02
- IPC: G01S3/02 ; G01S5/06 ; G01S5/02

Abstract:
Tracking systems and methods for obtaining position coordinates of transmitters are provided. One or more transmitters send multiple carrier signals to multiple receivers, where the time difference of arrival of the multiple carrier signals are used to determine the location of each transmitter. Accuracy is obtained by using phase information of multiple carrier frequencies for time difference of arrival measurements. The accuracy obtained by a receiver depends on the quality of the received carrier signal; a received carrier signal may become distorted by the presence of multipath interference. By using multiple signals with different frequencies, the system can screen or compensate for multipath effects. This screening can be accomplished either through various signal-sampling techniques or by averaging the signals received at the receiver. Because signals with different frequencies have different multipath experiences, a computer can analyze and compensate for “good” and “bad” signals.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150097732A1 SYSTEM FOR TRACKING AN OBJECT USING PULSED FREQUENCY HOPPING Public/Granted day:2015-04-09
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