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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 09, 2006
Filed:
Nov. 08, 2002
Applicants:
John H. Santhoff, San Diego, CA (US);
Henning F. Harmuth, Destin, FL (US);
Inventors:
John H. Santhoff, San Diego, CA (US);
Henning F. Harmuth, Destin, FL (US);
Assignee:
Pulse-LINK, Inc., Carlsbad, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01Q 21/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An ultra-wideband (UWB) antenna array is provided. One embodiment of the present invention employs a multi-element antenna for UWB beam forming and also for time-of-arrival vector processing to resolve multi-path problems in an UWB communication system. Another embodiment of the present invention recovers the energy contained in the multi-path reflections to increase signal-to-noise ratios of received UWB pulses.