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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:
May. 04, 1993
Filed:
Jan. 11, 1991
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
364456 ; 364449 ; 342 64 ;
Abstract
An airborne system is disclosed for determining the position of an aerial vehicle. According to the invention, a first memory is provided containing the general characteristics of different types of discrete landmarks and a second memory containing the geographic position of such landmarks on the ground to be flown over, a device for extracting, from the signals delivered by sensitive means, the general characteristics of said different types of discrete landmarks located on the ground being flown over, and a device for computing from the signals delivered by said sensitive means the relative positions of said vehicle with respect to said recognized landmarks, which it feeds to Kalman filter means.