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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 06, 1995
Filed:
Sep. 02, 1993
Leonard Schuchman, Potomac, MD (US);
Aaron Weinberg, Potomac, MD (US);
Lloyd Engelbrecht, Reston, VA (US);
Stanford Telecommunications, Inc., Reston, VA (US);
Abstract
The present invention relates to a no outage GPS/AM position finding system wherein a GPS system having a plurality of satellites transmits time and location data over radio frequency signals to enable a mobile GPS receiver station on the ground to determine its position, and a cellular telephone is carried with the mobile GPS receiver, traveling in range of a plurality of conventional ground based amplitude modulated (AM) transmitters for transmitting AM signals. Each mobile GPS receiver station includes phase detection means for simultaneously receiving a predetermined number of the AM signals, and measuring the changes in phase of each of the AM signals as the mobile GPS receiver travels, and deriving therefrom an AM position signal. A reference station for receiving the GPS and AM signals provides correction signals via a cellular telephone network which receives and transmits the correction signals to the mobile GPS receiver station. The last accurate GPS position signal is used for resolving any ambiguities in the AM radio position signal and to accommodate the lack of synchronization in the AM transmitters. The reference station measures the frequency and wavelength variations in the AM signals and conveys same to the mobile GPS receiver station by the cellular telephone. The AM position signal is activated upon detecting outages or blockages in the GPS signals.