Real-time locating system and method using timing signal
    1.
    发明授权
    Real-time locating system and method using timing signal 有权
    实时定位系统和方法使用定时信号

    公开(公告)号:US07212563B2

    公开(公告)日:2007-05-01

    申请号:US10138795

    申请日:2002-05-03

    IPC分类号: H04B1/00

    摘要: A location system includes a plurality of signal readers for receiving signals from a wireless transmitter to be located. The signals include a wideband, spread spectrum signal and a timing marker appended a predetermined time in front of the wideband, spread spectrum signal for indicating the presence of the wideband, spread spectrum signal. A location processor is operatively coupled to the signal readers for detecting the timing markers of signals and responsive to a detection of a timing marker, correlating a signal as a first-to-arrive signal and conducting differentiation of first-to-arrive signals to locate a wireless transmitter.

    摘要翻译: 位置系统包括用于从要定位的无线发射机接收信号的多个信号读取器。 信号包括宽带扩频信号和附加在用于指示宽带扩频信号的存在的宽带扩频信号前面的预定时间的定时标记。 位置处理器可操作地耦合到信号读取器,用于检测信号的定时标记并且响应于定时标记的检测,将信号作为第一到到信号进行相关,并且对第一到到达信号进行区分以定位 无线发射机。

    Multi-lateration system with automatic calibration and error removal
    3.
    发明授权
    Multi-lateration system with automatic calibration and error removal 有权
    具有自动校准和错误消除功能的多功能系统

    公开(公告)号:US06380894B1

    公开(公告)日:2002-04-30

    申请号:US09649646

    申请日:2000-08-29

    IPC分类号: G01S302

    摘要: An asset management radio location system uses time-of-arrival differentiation for random and repetitive spread spectrum, short duration transmissions from object-attached tags, to geolocate objects within a monitored environment. An object location processor is coupled to distributed tag transmission readers over signal transport paths having different transport delays, and carries out time-of-arrival differentiation of first-to-arrive transmissions from a tag to determine where its object is located. Geolocation errors associated with variations in parameters of the signal transport paths are effectively removed by installing one or more ‘reference’ tags, whose geolocations are precisely known. Using a background calibration routine that is exercised at a relatively low cycle rate, emissions from the reference tags are processed and coupled to the geolocation processor. The calculated geolocations of the reference tags are compared with their actual locations. Any offset between the two geolocation values is used to adjust time delay offsets associated with signal transport paths between the readers and the geolocation processor.

    摘要翻译: 资产管理无线电定位系统使用随机和重复扩频的到达时间差异,从对象附加标签的短时间传输到被监视环境内的地理定位对象。 对象位置处理器通过具有不同传输延迟的信号传输路径耦合到分布式标签传输读取器,并且执行来自标签的首次到达传输的到达时间差异,以确定其对象位于何处。 通过安装一个或多个“参考”标签,其地理位置是精确已知的,可有效地消除与信号传输路径参数变化相关联的地理位置错误。使用以相对低的周期速率运行的背景校准程序, 标记被处理并耦合到地理位置处理器,将参考标签的计算的地理位置与其实际位置进行比较。两个地理位置值之间的任何偏移用于调整与读取器和地理位置处理器之间的信号传输路径相关联的时间延迟偏移 。

    Distributed network for multi-lateration with circularly polarized
antenna for hemispherical coverage
    4.
    发明授权
    Distributed network for multi-lateration with circularly polarized antenna for hemispherical coverage 有权
    用于半球面覆盖的圆偏振天线的多重分布网络

    公开(公告)号:US6127976A

    公开(公告)日:2000-10-03

    申请号:US390030

    申请日:1999-09-02

    IPC分类号: G01S5/06 G06K17/00 G01S3/02

    摘要: A distributed radio geo-location and tracking system has a distributed subsystem architecture that distributes its processing workload over a plurality of information handling and processing subsystems. For maximum detection capability, each of a plurality of tag emission receivers is equipped with a circularly polarized, omnidirectional antenna, to provide hemispherical coverage. The receivers are coupled to a partitioned plurality of detection processors, that are coupled via distributed association processors to multiple location processors. Each detection processor demodulates and time stamps received energy correlated to known spreading codes of the tags, to associate received energy with only one tag. It transmits a message containing this information over a communication framework to an association processor. The computational load is equitably distributed by a flow control mechanism among available association processors, with all receptions of a single tag transmission being directed to the same association processor. An association processor organizes received messages by tag and time-of-arrival (TOA), and transmits association reports over an association communication process of the communication framework to one of plural distributed location processors. A location processor determines the geographical locations of tags using the TOA information in the association reports.

    摘要翻译: 分布式无线电地理位置和跟踪系统具有分布式子系统架构,其通过多个信息处理和处理子系统分配其处理工作负载。 为了获得最大的检测能力,多个标签发射接收器中的每一个配备有圆极化的全向天线,以提供半球形覆盖。 接收器耦合到分隔的多个检测处理器,其经由分布式关联处理器耦合到多个位置处理器。 每个检测处理器解调和接收与标签的已知扩展码相关的接收能量的时间戳,以将接收到的能量与仅一个标签相关联。 它通过通信框架将包含该信息的消息发送到关联处理器。 计算负载由可用的关联处理器之间的流控制机制公平分配,单个标签传输的所有接收都被引导到相同的关联处理器。 关联处理器通过标签和到达时间(TOA)来组织接收到的消息,并且通过通信框架的关联通信过程将关联报告发送到多个分布式位置处理器之一。 位置处理器使用关联报告中的TOA信息确定标签的地理位置。

    Interference suppression for wireless local area network and location system
    5.
    发明授权
    Interference suppression for wireless local area network and location system 有权
    无线局域网和定位系统的干扰抑制

    公开(公告)号:US06892054B2

    公开(公告)日:2005-05-10

    申请号:US10033529

    申请日:2001-12-28

    摘要: A wireless local area network and location system for locating objects within a monitored environment are disclosed. A plurality of access point stations receive and transmit communication signals within a wireless local area network. A processor is operatively connected to each of the access point stations and operative for processing communication signals received from the mobile station and, in one embodiment, determining which communication signals are first-to-arrive signals and conducting differentiation of the first-to-arrive signals to locate a mobile station. Delayed versions of at least one interference signal are weighted and the amplitude and phase controlled with weighted functions W1, W2 . . . Wn. The resultant weighted replicas are summed to determine an approximation of disbursed interference for cancelling interference. The location system can include a tag transmitter and spaced monitoring receivers and processor.

    摘要翻译: 公开了一种用于在受监视的环境内定位对象的无线局域网和定位系统。 多个接入点站在无线局域网内接收和发送通信信号。 处理器可操作地连接到每个接入点站并且用于处理从移动站接收的通信信号,并且在一个实施例中,确定哪些通信信号是首先到达信号并且进行第一到达的区分 信号来定位移动台。 加权至少一个干扰信号的延迟版本,并且用加权函数W 1,W 2 2控制振幅和相位。 。 。 W 。 将所得到的加权副本相加以确定用于消除干扰的已发送干扰的近似值。 位置系统可以包括标签发射器和间隔的监视接收器和处理器。

    Spread spectrum baseband modulation of magnetic fields for communications and proximity sensing
    7.
    发明授权
    Spread spectrum baseband modulation of magnetic fields for communications and proximity sensing 有权
    用于通信和接近感测的磁场扩频基带调制

    公开(公告)号:US06393045B1

    公开(公告)日:2002-05-21

    申请号:US09159553

    申请日:1998-09-24

    IPC分类号: H04L2730

    CPC分类号: G06K19/0723 G06K7/083

    摘要: A magnetic field-based tagged object information storage and retrieval system employs a spread spectrum modulated magnetic field for identifying each of a plurality of tagged objects to which spread spectrum modulation magnetic field transponders are attached. When interrogated by a tag reader, transponders embedded in plural tags generate spread spectrum modulated magnetic fields that are correlated with a reference spreading sequence in a tag reader signal processor to both detect and identify each responding tag.

    摘要翻译: 基于磁场的标记对象信息存储和检索系统采用扩频调制磁场来识别扩频调制磁场转发器附着到的多个标记对象中的每一个。 当被标签读取器询问时,嵌入在多个标签中的转发器产生与标签读取器信号处理器中的参考扩展序列相关的扩频调制磁场,以检测和识别每个响应标签。

    Object identification system employing pulsed magnetic field-stimulated, tag-embedded transponder
    8.
    发明授权
    Object identification system employing pulsed magnetic field-stimulated, tag-embedded transponder 有权
    采用脉冲磁场刺激,标签嵌入式应答器的物体识别系统

    公开(公告)号:US06170748B2

    公开(公告)日:2001-01-09

    申请号:US09159554

    申请日:1998-09-24

    IPC分类号: G06K708

    CPC分类号: G06K7/083

    摘要: An object orientation-independent information storage and retrieval system ‘tags’ an object with a compact, strip-embedded transponder containing object identification information. The transponder remains unpowered until the tagged object passes through a pulsed time-varying magnetic field generated by a tag reader. In response to a transponder coil sensing this interrogation magnetic field, the transponder extracts and stores energy from the incident field, powering up the transponder and stimulating the emission of an alternating magnetic field reply burst encoded with information stored in memory. The reply burst has the same frequency as the interrogating magnetic field burst, and is emitted by the transponder coil prior to receipt of the next interrogation burst.

    摘要翻译: 对象方向独立信息存储和检索系统使用包含对象识别信息的紧凑的带状嵌入式转发器“标记”对象。应答器保持未上电,直到被标记的对象通过由标签读取器产生的脉冲时变磁场 响应于应答器线圈感测到该询问磁场,应答器从入射场提取并存储能量,为应答器供电并且激励用存储在存储器中的信息编码的交变磁场应答脉冲串的发射,响应脉冲串 与询问磁场突发相同的频率,并且在接收到下一询问脉冲之前由应答器线圈发射。

    Magnetic field emission and differential receiver coil configuration for discriminating response magnetic field from transponder tag
    9.
    发明授权
    Magnetic field emission and differential receiver coil configuration for discriminating response magnetic field from transponder tag 有权
    磁场发射和差分接收器线圈配置,用于区分应答器标签的响应磁场

    公开(公告)号:US06268723B1

    公开(公告)日:2001-07-31

    申请号:US09159555

    申请日:1998-09-24

    IPC分类号: G08B1324

    CPC分类号: G06K7/083

    摘要: A magnetic field excitation and detection coil arrangement is configured to produce an electrical output signal representative of a differential combination of responses from a plurality of magnetic fields, including the field emitted from the excitation coil, a response magnetic field emitted from an object-tagged transponder interrogated by the excitation coil, and other magnetic fields from extraneous sources, such as industrial machinery. This differential combination of the responses from the detection coils will contain only the desired signal (e.g., response from an object-tagged transponder), as the other far away fields cancel, and therefore produces a net output signal level for a downstream signal (transponder output) processor.

    摘要翻译: 磁场激励和检测线圈装置被配置为产生表示来自多个磁场的响应的差分组合的电输出信号,包括从励磁线圈发射的场,从物体标记的转发器发射的响应磁场 由励磁线圈询问,以及来自外部来源的其他磁场,如工业机械。 来自检测线圈的响应的这种差分组合将仅包含期望的信号(例如,来自对象标记的转发器的响应),因为其他远的场消除,并且因此产生下行信号的净输出信号电平(转发器 输出)处理器。