Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method for measuring a direction of incidence of an incident wave for an instantaneous wideband receiver and associated receiver
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Application No.: US15539021Application Date: 2015-12-22
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Publication No.: US10585181B2Publication Date: 2020-03-10
- Inventor: Pascal Cornic , Jean Paul Artis , Christian Renard
- Applicant: THALES
- Applicant Address: FR Courbevoie
- Assignee: THALES
- Current Assignee: THALES
- Current Assignee Address: FR Courbevoie
- Agency: Troutman Sanders LLP
- Priority: FR1402957 20141222
- International Application: PCT/EP2015/081004 WO 20151222
- International Announcement: WO2016/102583 WO 20160630
- Main IPC: G01S13/44
- IPC: G01S13/44 ; G01S3/02 ; G01S3/32 ; G01S7/02 ; H01Q9/27 ; H01Q1/36

Abstract:
This method involves, for an array of at least two antennas pointing in different directions and the respective radiation patterns of which overlap one another, each antenna including at least two radiating elements so as to be able to work in a first operating mode associated with a first radiation pattern (Δ) and according to a second operating mode associated with a second radiation pattern (Σ): acquiring, for each antenna, a first signal (SΔi) corresponding to the first operating mode and a second signal (SΣi) corresponding to the second operating mode; determining, for each antenna, an opening half-angle (ρi) of a cone of possible directions of incidence from the amplitude of the first and second signals; calculating the bearing angle (Θ0) and/or the elevation angle (φ0) of the direction of incidence by intersection of the cones of possible directions of incidence determined for each antenna.
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