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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 16, 1991
Filed:
Nov. 30, 1987
Applicant:
Inventor:
Arthur M Shulenberger, Brisbane, CA (US);
Assignee:
Radar Data Systems, Inc., Hayward, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
342 37 ; 342 32 ;
Abstract
Disclosed herein is a method and apparatus for a ground radar and information display system for commercial and general aviation. The method includes processing raw data from the presently existing ATCRBS system, duplicating the raw data and sending it to an auxiliary computer, filtering out non-positional messages of the raw data, encoding the raw data into a data block transmitting the data block to a display facility, where it is decoded and displayed. The apparatus of the invention includes and auxiliary ground computer and a smaller on-board computer for processing the data block.