Communications: radio wave antennas – Antennas – Balanced doublet - centerfed
Reexamination Certificate
2003-11-17
2009-11-17
Dinh, Trinh V (Department: 2821)
Communications: radio wave antennas
Antennas
Balanced doublet - centerfed
C343S795000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07619579
ABSTRACT:
An antenna array and signal preprocessing apparatus and method. The antenna array is a quadrature polarized array having two orthogonal electric dipoles and two orthogonal magnetic dipoles. The preprocessor is for preprocessing signals from the antenna, for obtaining spatial spectrum information for signal source location. The preprocessor comprises an autocorrelator, connected after said input, for forming signal autocorrelation matrices for each element, and an smoother, connected after said autocorrelator, for averaging said autocorrelation matrices, thereby to form a sample covariance matrix suitable for use in a Eigenstructure based estimator for estimating source localization.
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Rahamim Dayan
Shavit Reuven
Tabrikian Joseph
Ben Gurion University of the Negev Research and Development Auth
Dinh Trinh V
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