1034 results about "Main lobe" patented technology

The invention discloses a multi-target detection method based on short-time Fourier transform and fractional Fourier transform, which belongs to the technical field of the radar target detection. The method comprises the following steps that the short-time Fourier transform is firstly used for conducting the primary detection on a signal, then a binaryzation method is used for processing a primary detection result, phase position of the signal is kept in the processing, the fractional Fourier transform is used for detecting a signal after being restored by the short-time Fourier transform, by adopting multiple methods for combined processing, advantages of overcoming phenomenon that a strong signal side lobe presses a weak signal main lobe, improving the signal-to-noise ratio of the signal to be detected, and solving the problem of the large false alarm possibility which is caused by adopting traditional method to detect the signal at the low signal-to-noise ratio can be realized; and meanwhile, an image contrast method and a gradual elimination method are adopted, multiple strong signals and weak signals with different or identical frequency modulation rates can be detected by utilizing the space and power strength information of the signal, so that the detection probability and the calculation efficiency can be further improved, easiness in project realization is realized, and the method is worth of being adopted and popularized.

A radio-frequency device includes a PAA processing portion configured to control a directivity of reception of a receiver antenna device, a received-signal-strength detecting portion configured to detect a strength of the received signal received by the receiver antenna device, and a direction detecting portion configured to detect the direction toward the communication object, on the basis of a direction in which a higher one of two strength values of the received signal respectively detected in first and second maximum-reception-directivity directions of a predetermined angular difference established by the PAA processing portion is minimal. The direction detecting portion is operated based on a fact that the received signal strength is minimal at the bottom of a gain existing in an area of overlapping of two main lobes extending in the respective two directivity directions of the predetermined angular difference, so that the resolution of detection can be made higher than in the case based on the main lobe direction in which the sensitivity of communication with the radio-frequency tag is maximum. Accordingly, the direction toward the radio-frequency tag can be suitably detected.

A high resolution and high data rate spot grid array printer system is provided, wherein an image is formed by scanning spot-grid array of optical beams across a substrate layered with a resist. High resolution is achieved by apodizing the optical beams to provide a narrower main lobe. Unwanted recordation of side lobes upon the substrate is prevented by assuring that the side lobes do not include energy above the threshold of the resist, using a memoryless resist, and by using a slanted and interleaved scan pattern adapted for use with the spot-grid array pattern and the memoryless characteristic of the resist.

A method is provided for designing a broad band constant directivity beamformer for a non-linear and non-axi-symmetric sensor array embedded in an obstacle having an odd shape, where the shape is imposed by industrial design constraints. In particular, the method of the present invention provides for collecting the beam pattern and keeping the main lobe reasonably constant by combined variation of the main lobe with the look direction angle and frequency. The invention is particularly useful for microphone arrays embedded in telephone sets but can be extended to other types of sensors.

A new pulse shape for CPM is introduced which is obtained by a linear combination of well-known RC and REC pulse shapes. The new pulse shape addresses the tradeoff between the width of the PSD main lobe and the rate of decay of the side lobe to improve the coded performance of multi-carrier systems affected by ACI. Also, a methodology is proposed to design and evaluate the performance of the new pulse shape for multi-carrier, coded systems based on the modulation constrained capacity. Furthermore, a binary convolutional code and the CPM modulator are concatenated using an S-random bit interleaver to lower the error floor. Finally, Laurent representation of the new pulse shape is suggested such that by retaining only the principal pulses at the receiver, complexity of the receiver can be reduced.

Directional sound acquisition is obtained by combining directional sensitivities in microphones with signal processing electronics to reduce the effects of noise received from unwanted directions. One or more microphones having directional sensitivity including a minor lobe pointing in the particular direction of interest and a major lobe pointing in a direction other than the particular direction are used. Signal processing circuitry reduces the effect of sound received from directions of a microphone major lobe.

The invention provides a novel method of transmit beamforming, which allows compact analog implementation of complex digital algorithms without compromising their features. It is aimed to support envelope shaping, apodization, and phase rotation per channel and per firing. Each of three embodiments represents a complete transmit channel driven by pulse-width modulated (PWM) waveforms stored in a conventional sequence memory. PWM signals controls the transmit pulse envelope (shape) by changing the duty cycle of the carrier. Beamformation data are loaded prior to a firing via serial interface. Under the direction of a controller, the circuitry allows high precision (beyond sampling rate) phase rotation of the carrier. It also provides transmit apodization (aperture weighting), which maintains an optimal trade-off among low sidelobe level and widening of the mainlobe. Implementing such an IC, the manufacturing cost of a high-end ultrasound system can be reduced. Equally, the proposed solution makes the benefits of digital transmit beamformers available to midrange and entry-level machines since it merely requires a modified programming of the sequence memory.

A light source unit is disclosed. The light source unit includes a phase type optical element which modulates a phase distribution of laser beams emitted from a light source. The phase type optical element has a phase distribution so that a first ratio of the peak intensity of side lobe laser beams to the peak intensity of main lobe laser beams in a beam intensity profile at a focal position of the laser beam condensing element is greater than a second ratio of the peak intensity of side lobe laser beams to the peak intensity of main lobe laser beams in the beam intensity profile at the focal position of the laser beam condensing element when it is assumed that the phase type optical element is not disposed.

The invention relates to a method for generating multi-user beam-forming launch weight, which comprises steps that: a base station estimates the DOA angle of each user by DOA arithmetic according to a received up run signal; the base station distributes users who meet grouping constraints into the same user group. The grouping constraints include: as to two random users Uj and Uk, corresponding Theta and Theta is required to meet: the absolute value of (Theta minuses Theta) is larger than or equal to Sigma that is multiplied by Delta Theta; wherein, Sigma is larger than or equal to 0.5 and smaller than or equal to 2; Delta Theta is a null width value used by broadening null width algorithm; as to user U in the user group, Thetai is used as a main lobe direction and theta1, ... thetai-1, theta i+1, ... theta are used as the null directions; the launch weight of the U is generated by the broadening null width algorithm. In conclusion, without using a code, the method of the invention is used for generating the launch weight for multiple users, and at the same time, time, frequency and code resources effectively multiplexed by the multiple users with relatively small interference can be realized.

The present invention provides apparatus and methods for a ridge horn antenna that exhibits improved directivity and main lobe of the radiation pattern at the high end of the frequency range for which its gain remains usably high, while providing a relatively low VSWR across the frequency range of operation.

An antenna system including a coverage antenna (2) with a coverage beam pattern; and an auxiliary antenna (3) with an auxiliary beam pattern. The auxiliary beam pattern is arranged to perform sidelobe suppression, null steering, null addition, or null-fill. In the case where the auxiliary antenna is used to perform sidelobe suppression, the auxiliary beam pattern has a mainlobe with: an amplitude lower than an amplitude of a mainlobe of said coverage beam pattern; a width lower than a width of said mainlobe of said coverage beam pattern; a phase different to a phase of a sidelobe of said coverage beam pattern; and a direction which is selected so as to at least partially suppress said sidelobe.

A millimeter band transmitter transmits one or more indirect path signal waves from the main lobe of a transmit antenna, and a direct path signal wave is transmitted in a side lobe of the transmit antenna. A receiver simultaneously receives each of the indirect and direct path signal waves if the receive antenna is unobstructed. If the direct line of sight path between the transmitter and receiver is blocked, the receiver only receives one or more of the indirect path signal waves.

Examples of the present invention include methods and apparatus for phased array automotive radar which allow reductions in erroneous detections such as sidelobe clutter and ghost images. An example radar includes a steerable transmit antenna and a steerable receive antenna. Transmit and receive beams may be steered using an electronic control circuit so the main lobe of the transmit beam remains generally aligned with the main lobe of the receive beam, and the side lobe of the receive beam remains generally aligned with a null in the transmit beam.

The invention discloses a method for calculating the dielectric loss angle of a compatible insulating device in the technical field of monitoring. According to the technical scheme, firstly, a Blackman self-convolution window is constructed, current and voltage signals of a device to be detected are collected, and discrete sampling is performed on the current and voltage signals; secondly, windowing truncation is performed on a discrete signal sequence with the constructed Blackman self-convolution window, and a discrete spectrum function of discrete signals after the windowing truncation is obtained; thirdly, the discrete spectrum function of the discrete signals after the windowing truncation is analyzed, and a main lobe width and side lobe characteristics are obtained; finally, voltage and current fundamental wave signal phase angles are solved with the four spectral line interpolation amendment theory, and therefore the dielectric loss angle is solved. According to the method for calculating the dielectric loss angle of the compatible insulating device, the extremely good spectrum leakage restraining effect of the Blackman self-convolution window is used, frequency spectrum correction is performed with the four spectral line interpolation, dielectric loss angle measuring errors based on the FFT theory under asynchronous sampling are avoided, the measuring precision is high, and requirements for hardware are low.

The invention discloses a modeling method specific to an indoor 3D (Three-Dimensional) spatial statistical channel. The modeling method can be applied to a distributed multiple input and multiple output (MIMO) system. When a base station (BS) is designed with a directional antenna, important space-time channel parameters such as Doppler Power Spectrum (DS), space-time correlation and channel capacity are concluded by taking a Poda signal at an MS (Mobile Station) end as a basis; space-time model parameters and the mechanism relationship among included angles of directional antenna main lobes are resolved by using channel space-time feature parameters; meanwhile, the system transmission performance of an MIMO multi-antenna linear array and a circular array under a 3D spatial statistical channel model is researched, so that accurate, flexible diverse channel models are provided for an MIMO multi-antenna space-time processing algorithm and a simulation wireless communication system, and the research of the spatial statistical channel model is expanded.

A radar system includes a transmit antenna array having subarrays disposed at predetermined positions. An orthogonal waveform signal is directed to a corresponding one of the subarrays. On receive, an adaptive processor derives a plurality of adaptive weight factors from a plurality of receive signals and applies them to the receive signals to obtain a jammer cancelled signal. That signal is separated into its orthogonal waveform components by passing it through a bank of correlators. The correlator system provides a plurality of unique receive signals substantially corresponding one-to-one to the unique transmit subarrays. The receive beamformer derives an angular estimate of at least one target relative to boresight from the unique receive signals.

The invention discloses a method for measuring a target azimuth by single-beam mechanical scanning radar, which relates to the technical field of radar and communication and solves the problems of low angle measurement precision and large operation amount of the conventional single-beam mechanical scanning radar. The method comprises the following steps of: acquiring echo signals by using the single-beam mechanical scanning radar, then performing phase coherence accumulation on the acquired echo signals to acquire a higher signal detection signal-to-noise ratio, taking an azimuth interval of any two echo pulses of a main lobe width of a radar antenna as two beams required for measuring an angle by the single-pulse technology after target information is detected, then calculating two-dimensional images, sum signal intensity and difference signal intensity of a target on two azimuths, and further calculating a sum-to-difference ratio k so as to acquire a target error deflection angle delta theta, wherein the target azimuth theta T is equal to theta i + theta k + delta theta. The method is suitable for radar angle measurement.

A system and method of providing to a beamformer a modified complex beam steering vector includes collecting subarray I/Q samples from a plurality of subarrays receiving clutter, performing coherent integration of the subarray I/Q samples to increase the CNR, adaptively modifying a complex beam steering vector to form a null in the direction of the received clutter, and outputting to a beamformer the modified complex beam steering vector. The beamformer receives complex I/Q data samples representing a radar signal containing near-horizon clutter and applies the modified beam steering vector to generate a beamformed signal having an elevated mainlobe and a spatial sidelobe null in the direction of the received clutter.

Configuring an adaptive microphone array to gather signals from a main lobe of the array, and configuring the array to reduce side interference gathered from sources that are not situated within the main lobe. A memory stores test signals gathered by the array at a plurality of predetermined angular bearings with reference to the array in an anechoic chamber. Signals gathered in real time are processed to provide a preliminary output and preliminary weights. The test signals are retrieved from memory. The preliminary weights are applied to the test signals to provide null steering weights. The null steering weights and the preliminary output are processed to reduce or minimize the amplitude response of the array at the angular orientation.

The invention discloses a microstrip array antenna and relates to an antenna capable of resolving problem of low main lobe gain and difficult side-lobe suppression of ETC array antenna. The microstrip array antenna includes a antenna array composed of more than two antenna array elements, the antenna matrix includes more than two antenna array elements in the same row with each the antenna array element connecting with each output terminal port of one multiplex power divider, and between the adjacent antenna array elements, that are in different distance from the central line of the antenna matrix, is connected by cascaded impedance transforming section. The invention is suitable for antennas in ETC system.

The invention discloses a space-time two-dimensional narrow band barrage jamming method aiming at phased array radar. The conventional phased array radar controls the narrow band jamming by self adaptation, firstly learns the jamming data received by a radar receiver, and then forms zero point in a jamming direction. Such a conventional self-adaptive treatment method easily generates signal counteraction and is not suitable for motion jamming and fast-varied interstitial jamming, and the zero point depth and width are seriously influenced by the array error. The method for using ultra-low side lobe antenna can effectively resist jamming. But under the prior art and technological level, excessive side lobe requirements on phased array radar are unpractical. The invention comprises the steps of firstly estimating jamming parameters by a spatial spectrum estimation technique so as to obtain the jamming azimuth and frequency parameters, using relative parameter information to construct a space-time two-dimensional barrage matrix, multiplying the space-time two-dimensional barrage matrix by the received data so as to block the narrow band jamming with a specific frequency in the specific azimuth, and finally realizing space-time two-dimensional narrow band barrage jamming. The advantages of the invention are that the invention can be used for the phased array radar for resisting specific side lobe jamming and main lobe jamming, has small operand, and is easily realized and popularized.

The invention discloses a method for estimating a direction of arrival and an information source number of strong and weak signals, which mainly solves the problem that the conventional method cannot accurately estimate the direction of arrival of the strong and weak signals when the information source number is unknown. The method comprises the following implementing processes: estimating a covariance matrix according to array receiving data; performing characteristic decomposition on the covariance matrix to acquire characteristic values arranged in a descending order and corresponding characteristic vectors; calculating spatial spectrums of characteristic beams in turn from the first characteristic vector; and estimating the direction of arrival and the information source number of each signal by comparing the difference between a maximum value of the spatial spectrums and an average value outside a main lobe beam width with a set threshold value. The method is simple and practical, can accurately estimate the direction of arrival and the information source number of the strong and weak signals when a plurality of strong and weak signals are coexistent, and can be used for extracting information or suppressing interference in numerous fields of radar, communication, navigation, measurement and control and electronic reconnaissance.

The invention discloses a self-adaptive sum-difference angle measurement method for a plane phased array, which mainly solves the problem of the prior art that the target angle cannot be estimated accurately while the main lobe interference is restrained. The realization process is that the self-adaptive beam formation is performed for received data of array elements of all the lines, an equivalent linear array of the output of the beam formation is formed in the Y-direction, and the sum-difference beam formation in symmetry inversion is adopted to estimate the target pitching angle theta T; the self-adaptive beam formation is performed for the received data of the array elements of all the rows, an equivalent linear array of the output of the beam formation is formed in the X-direction, and the sum-difference beam formation in symmetry inversion is adopted to estimate the target azimuth angle; and the self-adaptive beam formation for all the received data of all the array elements can be performed through adopting the subspace projection SMI algorithm and based on the pitching angle theta T and the azimuth angle, so as to obtain an output signal for restraining the main lobe interference. The method provided by the invention has the advantages of excellent performance of restraining the main lobe interference, as well as accuracy in sum-difference beam angle measurement, and can be used for estimating the angle of the target and tracking the target on the premise that the main lobe interference exists.