Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Cycling reference multiplexing receiver system
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Application No.: US14649576Application Date: 2013-12-16
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Publication No.: US10234539B2Publication Date: 2019-03-19
- Inventor: Edward L. Hill , Mark Schneider
- 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: Schmeiser, Olsen & Watts LLP
- International Application: PCT/US2013/075277 WO 20131216
- International Announcement: WO2014/093961 WO 20140619
- Main IPC: G01S5/06
- IPC: G01S5/06 ; G01S5/02 ; H04B7/08 ; H04B17/27

Abstract:
A position tracking system for tracking a physical location of a radio frequency (RF) transmitter comprises at least four RF receiver antennae at known locations. Each receiver antenna receives RF signals from the RF transmitter. One receiver antenna is used as a reference antenna. A receiver channel unit is in communication with the RF receiver antennae. The receiver channel unit comprises a reference receiver channel and a measurement receiver channel. A multiplexer is dynamically configurable to selectively connect the reference receiver channel to the reference receiver antenna and to connect, in succession, each other receiver antenna to the measurement receiver channel. A comparator measures phase differences between the RF signals received by the reference antenna and those received by each other receiver antennae. A data processor computes the physical location of the RF transmitter from the phase differences measured by the comparator and the known locations of the receiver antennae.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150323643A1 CYCLING REFERENCE MULTIPLEXING RECEIVER SYSTEM Public/Granted day:2015-11-12
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