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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 18, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2013
Lockheed Martin Corporation, Bethesda, MD (US);
Breyt L. Coakley, Oneida, NY (US);
Chris S. Foster, North Syracuse, NY (US);
Bryan L. Cleaveland, Baldwinsville, NY (US);
Joseph A. Ottaviano, Chitenango, NY (US);
James P. Snyder, Liverpool, NY (US);
Lockheed Martin Corporation, Bethesda, MD (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for detection of multiple pulses present in a radio frequency (RF) environment comprises receiving the RF signal, sampling the RF signal and converting the samples from analog to digital. In-phase and quadrature components of the samples are converted to magnitude and phase. Magnitude and phase information is processed in parallel paths, each path tuned to detect pulses of a specific pulse width of interest. Filtered magnitude and phase data is processed to detect pulses. Multiple detected pulses from different processing paths are analyzed to characterize each detected pulse as to its originating source. Pulse width and time of incidence are compared to determine if multiple detected pulses represent a single pulse or unique and separate pulses. Pulse descriptor words are generated for each uniquely identified pulse.