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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 23, 2008
Filed:
Aug. 04, 2006
Applicants:
Masayoshi Matsuoka, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Kurt R. Zimmerman, Mountain View, CA (US);
Paul Y. Montgomery, Menlo Park, CA (US);
David G. Lawrence, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventors:
Masayoshi Matsuoka, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Kurt R. Zimmerman, Mountain View, CA (US);
Paul Y. Montgomery, Menlo Park, CA (US);
David G. Lawrence, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Assignee:
Novariant, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 3/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A precise positioning method and system is disclosed for allowing an array of ground transmitters to self-survey their relative location at centimeter-level accuracy by transmitting, amongst the ground transmitters in the array, bi-directional ranging signals associated with a wideband code modulation with a chipping rate faster than 30 MHz.