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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:
Apr. 21, 1992
Filed:
Nov. 13, 1987
Applicant:
Inventor:
Arthur J White, Hampshire, GB;
Assignee:
Siemens Plessey Electronic Systems Limited, Chessington, GB;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
342195 ; 342189 ; 364423 ; 364517 ; 235411 ; 367 97 ; 367 98 ; 367100 ;
Abstract
The invention provides a method of and apparatus for determining if a newly reported target is correlatable with target tracks already stored in a data base. Correlation is effected in stages rejecting uncorrelatable stored target tracks and accepting closely correlated target tracks and includes decision applying means for accepting a stored target track as a correlated track only under stringent conditions.