Thomson-csf

Thales

Patrick Quemin

Pierre Esposito

Olivier Ruffenach

Jean-Pierre Chevalier

In a method and device for the encoding/decoding of power distribution at outputs of a system, a distribution encoder includes an element that receives a useful input signal and a piece of distribution information, and that superposes the piece of distribution information received on the input signal. The piece of information is used for the subsequent distribution of the total power of the input signal at an output or outputs of the system. A distribution decoder includes one or more inputs that receive an encoded signal or an encoded signal divided into several signals including the useful signal and the piece of distribution information. Further, one or more outputs are connected to the outputs of the system to which the useful signal is transmitted by distributing the total power received according to the piece of distribution information. The method and device enable, for example, fast, low-power switching of the outputs of a high-power system and the programming of a system with variable power outputs.

Method and device for the encoding and decoding of power distribution at the outputs of a system

The disclosure relates to the recognition of an objective known as an IFF or 'Identification Friend or Foe' system. In the interrogator unit of the IFF system, the signals received undergo processing operations that take account of the characteristics of the antenna and enable the useful information to be separated from the disturbances. In order to be able to use an electronic scanning antenna in spite of the fact that it has characteristics which vary with the training angle, hence with the direction in which the objective is located, the processing operations to be performed are designed for different training angles, the characteristics of these processing operations are memorized and the processing operations are performed as a function of the training angle.

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