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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 1996
Filed:
Aug. 11, 1993
Applicant:
Inventors:
Brian G Henderson, Derwood, MD (US);
Antoine R Naaman, Washington, DC (US);
Alexandre Olimpiew, Reston, VA (US);
Jean-Pierre Bourgon, Herndon, VA (US);
Assignee:
Intelsat, Washington, DC (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
342125 ; 342145 ; 342357 ; 342458 ;
Abstract
A burst tone range processing system for determining the distance between a ranging station and a signal re-transmitting target device, generates a burst tone signal of finite duration and transmits the signal along a delay transmission path from the ranging station to the target and along a reference transmission path within the ranging station. The transmitted signals are received from the reference and delay paths and assigned time tags. The signals are then correlated and the time tags assigned to correlated signals are compared.