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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 2011
Filed:
Jul. 25, 2008
Steven Vanlaningham, Richardson, TX (US);
James A. Stevens, Lucas, TX (US);
Steven VanLaningham, Richardson, TX (US);
James A. Stevens, Lucas, TX (US);
Rockwell Collins, Inc., Cedar Rapids, IA (US);
Abstract
A method for determining an angle-of-arrival for a detected signal. The method includes the steps of receiving the signal at a first antenna, receiving the signal at a second antenna, generating a plurality of spectral lines based on a complex multiplication of a complex conjugation of the signal received at the first antenna and the signal received at the second antenna, generating a delta phase difference for pairs of the spectral lines using frequency differences, and generating an angle-of-arrival for the detected signal based on an average of the delta phase difference.