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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.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 26, 2005

Filed:

Sep. 14, 2002
Applicant:

Philip Neville Armstrong, Yokohama, JP;

Inventor:

Philip Neville Armstrong, Yokohama, JP;

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01V001/48 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

The invention is a method for determining the orientation of a multi-component receiver where the preferred embodiment of the method makes use of an approximation of the relative bearing angle provided by a relative bearing sensor. The method comprises the steps of scanning various angles around the approximated relative bearing angle provided by the relative bearing sensor and for each scanned angle rotating the data into the true earth frame using a given scanned angle and measuring the polarization angle of the rotated data in the horizontal plane and calculating a weighted sum of the differences between the source azimuth and the estimated azimuth from the polarization.


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