Communications: directive radio wave systems and devices (e.g. – Determining distance – With remote cooperating station
Patent
1998-11-30
2000-05-23
Sotomayor, John B.
Communications: directive radio wave systems and devices (e.g.,
Determining distance
With remote cooperating station
342 42, 342 44, 342 21, 342127, 473407, G01S 1308, G01B 714
Patent
active
060670398
ABSTRACT:
A distancing system comprising radio frequency transceivers and data processing circuits. The radio frequency transceivers allow data transmission via a high frequency radio signal. The transmission and receipt of these radio signals can be timed to estimate distance. But the data processing circuits operate at local clock frequencies, and one cannot be sure at what point a give radio frequency signal was received to a resolution greater than one-half cycle of the local clock signal. The data processing circuits periodically "skip" to resynchronize with incoming data streams. These skips occur at intervals corresponding to the frequency difference between the local clock frequencies. This frequency difference can be used to pinpoint fairly precisely when a given radio frequency signal was received in a previous half-cycle of the local clock. Distances can thus be calculated based on a coarse timing value generated based on the local clock of one of the distancing units and first and second fine timing values generated based on the skips at one or both of the distancing units.
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