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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 2013
Filed:
Nov. 27, 2009
Hermann Hampel, Grosshabersdorf, DE;
Ulrich Berold, Nuremberg, DE;
Gerd Bumiller, Furth/Vach, DE;
Christoph Reck, Erlangen, DE;
Hermann Hampel, Grosshabersdorf, DE;
Ulrich Berold, Nuremberg, DE;
Gerd Bumiller, Furth/Vach, DE;
Christoph Reck, Erlangen, DE;
iAd Gesellschaft für Informatik, Automatisierung und Datenverarbeitung mbH, Grosshabersdorf, DE;
Abstract
A device and method for secondary radar signal reception with quasi-dynamic or dynamic sectoring of a space to be monitored. The device includes at least one antenna assembly including antenna elements for the reception of transmitted secondary radar signals, a signal processing unit connected via a connection point to the antenna elements for the joint processing of received antenna signals, outputs associated with a couple matrix in the signal processing unit and individual receivers. The couple matrix includes adjustable coefficients for sectoring of the space to be monitored and for performing a superposition of the antenna signals using a multiplicative-additive combination of the received antenna signals. In the case of dynamic sectoring of the space, each receiver receives for each receipt telegram another weighted superposition of the antenna signals with certain couple coefficients, and in the case of quasi-dynamic sectoring the adjustable coefficients are fixed over a longer time period.