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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2015

Filed:

Oct. 07, 2011
Applicants:

Paul Thevenon, Toulouse, FR;

Stéphane Corazza, Toulouse, FR;

Christophe Macabiau, Montauban, FR;

Olivier Julien, Toulouse, FR;

Lionel Ries, Viviers les Montagnes, FR;

Michel Bousquet, Deyme, FR;

Inventors:

Paul Thevenon, Toulouse, FR;

Stéphane Corazza, Toulouse, FR;

Christophe Macabiau, Montauban, FR;

Olivier Julien, Toulouse, FR;

Lionel Ries, Viviers les Montagnes, FR;

Michel Bousquet, Deyme, FR;

Assignees:

Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), Paris-Cedex, FR;

Thales, Courbevoie, FR;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 5/02 (2010.01); G01S 1/32 (2006.01); G01S 19/10 (2010.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 5/0278 (2013.01); G01S 5/0226 (2013.01); G01S 1/32 (2013.01); G01S 19/10 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method for identifying transmitters by a terminal in a single-frequency network comprising a plurality of transmitters. The transmitters are synchronized and transmit with an artificial delay τ, specific to each transmitter. The method comprises at least one step of acquiring the approximate position of the terminal {circumflex over (p)}, the position pof a list of transmitters {Tx} in the vicinity of the terminal and the delays τassociated with them, a step of measuring pseudo-distances ρbetween the transmitters and the terminal and a step of associating the measurements ρwith the transmitters of known positions pby minimizing a cost function, said cost function ν(ρ,{circumflex over (p)},σ) corresponding to the norm of the error between the measurements ρand a model of measurements of the pseudo-distances applied to a permutation of the position of the transmitters σ.


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