Abstract:
The invention is embodied in a parameter encoder for identifying selected parameters of a digitally sampled incoming signal lying within a receiver bandwidth, wherein the receiver bandwidth is divided into plural contiguous frequency channels, each channel having a channel bandwidth, whereby the incoming signal is divided into plural channelized signals lying in respective ones of the plural frequency channels, the parameter encoder includes plural channel processors connected to receive respective ones of the channelized signals, each of the channel processors including Fourier transform apparatus for producing a frequency value and an amplitude value for each sample of the respective channelized signal. The parameter encoder embodying the invention further includes a channel arbitrator including comparator apparatus for comparing the amplitude value with a predetermined threshold, comparing the amplitude value with the corresponding amplitude values of adjacent ones of the channels and comparing the frequency value with corresponding frequency values of adjacent ones of the channels, and processor apparatus for sensing whether a detected signal lies in the respective channel based upon at least one of: (a) determination of a corresponding amplitudes values of the respective channel and its adjacent neighbor channels relative to the predetermined threshold, (b) determination of predominance of the frequency value over corresponding frequency values of adjacent neighbor channels, (c) determination of a difference between the frequency value and that one of an adjacent neighbor channel exceeding a predetermined frequency threshold.
Abstract:
The invention is embodied in a digital direction finding receiver having N frequency channels (50a, 50e) spanning a frequency band of the receiver and capable of receiving signals simultaneously from a plurality of antennas (30a, 30e) spaced from one another, one of the antennas including a reference location antenna. The receiver of the invention includes a plurality of analog-to-digital converters (32a, 32e) having their analog inputs connected to respective ones of the antennas, a reference source (58) capable of outputting a reference digital signal containing at least a local frequency component within a selected one of the N frequency channels, a plurality of digital down converter modules (50a, 50e), each one of the digital down converter modules having a reference input connected to the reference source and a signal input connected to the digital output of a respective one of the analog-to-digital converters, each the digital down converter modules including a multiplier (56a, 56e) for producing at an output of the digital down converter a product of the reference signal and the signal from the respective one of the antennas, and a digital phase detector (35) having plural phase detector signals inputs connected to the outputs of remaining ones of the digital down converters, the phase detector detecting phase angles of the signals on each of the phase detector signal inputs relative to a corresponding signal received at the reference antenna.
Abstract:
The invention is embodied in a parameter encoder for identifying selected parameters of a digitally sampled incoming signal lying within a receiver bandwidth, wherein the receiver bandwidth is divided into plural contiguous frequency channels, each channel having a channel bandwidth, whereby the incoming signal is divided into plural channelized signals lying in respective ones of the plural frequency channels, the parameter encoder includes plural channel processors connected to receive respective ones of the channelized signals, each of the channel processors including Fourier transform apparatus for producing a frequency value and an amplitude value for each sample of the respective channelized signal. The parameter encoder embodying the invention further includes a channel arbitrator including comparator apparatus for comparing the amplitude value with a predetermined threshold, comparing the amplitude value with the corresponding amplitude values of adjacent ones of the channels and comparing the frequency value with corresponding frequency values of adjacent ones of the channels, and processor apparatus for sensing whether a detected signal lies in the respective channel based upon at least one of: (a) determination of a corresponding amplitudes values of the respective channel and its adjacent neighbor channels relative to the predetermined threshold, (b) determination of predominance of the frequency value over corresponding frequency values of adjacent neighbor channels, (c) determination of a difference between the frequency value and that one of an adjacent neighbor channel exceeding a predetermined frequency threshold.
Abstract:
The invention is embodied in a digital direction finding receiver having N frequency channels (50a, 50e) spanning a frequency band of the receiver and capable of receiving signals simultaneously from a plurality of antennas (30a, 30e) spaced from one another, one of the antennas including a reference location antenna. The receiver of the invention includes a plurality of analog-to-digital converters (32a, 32e) having their analog inputs connected to respective ones of the antennas, a reference source (58) capable of outputting a reference digital signal containing at least a local frequency component within a selected one of the N frequency channels, a plurality of digital down converter modules (50a, 50e), each one of the digital down converter modules having a reference input connected to the reference source and a signal input connected to the digital output of a respective one of the analog-to-digital converters, each the digital down converter modules including a multiplier (56a, 56e) for producing at an output of the digital down converter a product of the reference signal and the signal from the respective one of the antennas, and a digital phase detector (35) having plural phase detector signals inputs connected to the outputs of remaining ones of the digital down converters, the phase detector detecting phase angles of the signals on each of the phase detector signal inputs relative to a corresponding signal received at the reference antenna.