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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:
Aug. 26, 1997
Filed:
Dec. 26, 1995
Applicant:
Inventor:
Donald M Targoff, Tucson, AZ (US);
Assignee:
Hughes Missile Systems Company, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
342101 ; 342159 ; 342195 ;
Abstract
A center-line filter for a radar receiver is a cascade of an analog filter and a digital filter. The purpose of the filter cascade is to filter out all but a single line of a pulsed spectrum. The signal is passed through the analog filter, and then over-sampled. A sharp cutoff FIR filter is used to eliminate the remaining undesired lines. Since the analog filter already has the correct matched filter characteristic in the passband, the digital filter passband is deliberately wider and unsymmetrical. After digital filtering, the filter output is decimated to provide a desired output data rate.