Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Antenna beam forming for tracking a transmitter signal
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Application No.: US13483893Application Date: 2012-05-30
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Publication No.: US09612337B2Publication Date: 2017-04-04
- Inventor: Jean-Jacques Floch
- Applicant: Jean-Jacques Floch
- Applicant Address: DE Taufkirchen
- Assignee: ASTRIUM GMBH
- Current Assignee: ASTRIUM GMBH
- Current Assignee Address: DE Taufkirchen
- Agency: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C.
- Priority: EP11004867 20110615
- Main IPC: G01S19/22
- IPC: G01S19/22 ; H01Q3/26 ; G01S19/23 ; H04B7/08 ; H04B17/21

Abstract:
Receiver using antenna beam forming for tracking a transmitter signal and method for tracking the transmitter signal. The receiver includes a beam forming network comprising at least one beam forming channel for weighting each of N signals received from an N-element antenna array with an assigned weighting factor for forming a beam for tracking a transmitter signal of a certain transmitter, and a calibrator structured and arranged to calibrate the weighting factor (Wi) assigned to a signal (i) selected from the N signals by determining an average phase difference (ΔΦ) between consecutive samples of the selected signal and consecutive samples of a reference signal and structured and arranged to adapt the weighting factor (Wi) of the selected signal depending on the determined average phase difference (ΔΦ), where (i) is a number between 1 and N.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120319902A1 ANTENNA BEAM FORMING FOR TRACKING A TRASMITTER SIGNAL Public/Granted day:2012-12-20
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