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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 21, 2006
Filed:
Oct. 27, 2003
Sylvia Couronné, Erlangen, DE;
Marcus Bliesze, Erlangen, DE;
Günter Hofmann, Litzendorf, DE;
Ernst Eberlein, Grossenseebad, DE;
Stefan Koehler, Rödental, DE;
Thomas Von Der Grün, Kleinsendelbach, DE;
Marco Breiling, Erlangen, DE;
Reiner Retkowski, Erlangen, DE;
Sylvia Couronné, Erlangen, DE;
Marcus Bliesze, Erlangen, DE;
Günter Hofmann, Litzendorf, DE;
Ernst Eberlein, Grossenseebad, DE;
Stefan Koehler, Rödental, DE;
Thomas Von Der Grün, Kleinsendelbach, DE;
Marco Breiling, Erlangen, DE;
Reiner Retkowski, Erlangen, DE;
Abstract
In a method for the continuous real time tracking of the position of at least one mobile object in a defined multidimensional space, at least one mobile transmitter module is attached to at least one mobile object and the signals from the at least one module are received by a stationary receiving and signal processing network and then centrally processed. The signals emitted by each transmitter module are electromagnetic waves sent within a frequency band range using time division multiplexing techniques. Due to the fact that the frequency band is used as a single channel for the purpose of maximizing the accuracy with which a position is detected, and due also to the fact that the communication process between the transmitters and the receivers is based on the principle of pseudo-random time division multiplexing using burst transmissions of low cross correlation with non synchronized pseudo-random patterns, there is created a method for the continuous tracking of the position of one or more mobile objects at any time and in any place which is of very high positional resolution and has a temporal resolution of just a few milliseconds.