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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 17, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 12, 2008
James Ladd Berntsen, Ramona, CA (US);
Patrick Edward Franz, San Diego, CA (US);
Bruce Hampton Kennard, San Diego, CA (US);
Rob Baranowski, San Diego, CA (US);
Ian Crabtree, San Diego, CA (US);
James Ladd Berntsen, Ramona, CA (US);
Patrick Edward Franz, San Diego, CA (US);
Bruce Hampton Kennard, San Diego, CA (US);
Rob Baranowski, San Diego, CA (US);
Ian Crabtree, San Diego, CA (US);
Compass Auto Tracker LLC, Poway, CA (US);
Abstract
The invention provides a determination of direction to a remote object which omnidirectionally transmits a signal. The invention includes a handheld directional and omnidirectional antenna at a user's location and a handheld circuit coupled to the antennas to determine field strengths of the signal received from the remote object by the two antennas. A comparison of the received signals at the antennas during a sweep a field of observation is made and a probable direction of the remote object relative to the user's location is selected from the data sweep. The apparatus may further comprise a digital compass which generates a compass heading corresponding to each direction in which the directional antenna is pointed. The circuit stores field strength data by compass heading and averages the field strength data according to a predetermined protocol over compass headings.