A wireless device including a transceiver that utilizes a power supply is described. The wireless device includes a Global Positioning System ("GPS") section having a plurality of GPS subsystems and a power controller in signal communication with the power supply and GPS section, wherein the power controller is configured to selectively power each GPS subsystem from the plurality of GPS subsystems.
G01S 1/00 - Beacons or beacon systems transmitting signals having a characteristic or characteristics capable of being detected by non-directional receivers and defining directions, positions, or position lines fixed relatively to the beacon transmitters; Receivers co-operating therewith
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METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MITIGATING THE EFFECTS OF NARROWBAND INTERFERING SIGNALS IN A GPS RECEIVER
A positioning system receiver that mitigates narrowband interference by dynamically choosing the mitigation technique that yields the best interference mitigation capability with the least signal degradation to maximize receiver performance parameters such as receiver sensitivity, multipath resolution, and low power.
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METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MITIGATING THE EFFECTS OF CW INTERFERENCE VIA POST CORRELATION PROCESSING IN A GPS RECEIVER
A positioning system receiver that mitigates the effect of continuous wave (CW) carrier interference with post correlation processing in a satellite positioning receiver, while not distorting the signal waveform or degrading receiver sensitivity and performing in low signal and dynamic interference environments.
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METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MITIGATING THE EFFECTS OF CROSS CORRELATION IN A GPS RECEIVER
A positioning system receiver that mitigates cross correlation of received signals from positioning system satellite vehicles by generating the strong satellite vehicle signal and subtracting it from the received signal before correlation while eliminating the need for cross correlation signature without changing the C/A code.
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A wireless device including a transceiver that utilizes a power supply is described. The wireless device includes a Global Positioning System ('GPS') section having a plurality of GPS subsystems and a power controller in signal communication with the power supply and GPS section, wherein the power controller is configured to selectively power each GPS subsystem from the plurality of GPS subsystems.
G01S 1/00 - Beacons or beacon systems transmitting signals having a characteristic or characteristics capable of being detected by non-directional receivers and defining directions, positions, or position lines fixed relatively to the beacon transmitters; Receivers co-operating therewith
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SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VERIFYING CONSISTENT MEASUREMENTS IN PERFORMING GPS POSITIONING
Systems and methods are provided for verifying whether a set of satellite signals may be used to calculate an estimated position. Example systems and methods may include a GPS receiver for receiving the satellite signals and a measurement consistency verifier to analyze a geometric configuration of the satellites from which the satellite signals were acquired. The measurement consistency verifier may determine if the satellites are sufficiently close to one another to provide consistent measurements.
G01S 1/00 - Beacons or beacon systems transmitting signals having a characteristic or characteristics capable of being detected by non-directional receivers and defining directions, positions, or position lines fixed relatively to the beacon transmitters; Receivers co-operating therewith
G01S 5/14 - Determining absolute distances from a plurality of spaced points of known location
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System and method for providing temperature correction in a crystal oscillator
A system and method for providing temperature compensation in a oscillator component (such as a crystal oscillator component) that includes a closely-located temperature sensing device. The crystal oscillator component in example systems and methods is exposed to a temperature profile during a calibration procedure. Temperature and frequency data are collected and applied to coefficient generating function according to a temperature compensation model to generate a set of coefficients that are used in the temperature compensation model in an application device. The generated coefficients are stored in a coefficient memory accessible to an application device during operation.
H03B 5/04 - Modifications of generator to compensate for variations in physical values, e.g. power supply, load, temperature
H03B 5/36 - Generation of oscillations using amplifier with regenerative feedback from output to input with frequency-determining element being electromechanical resonator being a piezoelectric resonator active element in amplifier being semiconductor device
H03L 1/02 - Stabilisation of generator output against variations of physical values, e.g. power supply against variations of temperature only
A GPS Mobile Unit is described. The GPS Mobile Unit may include at least two antennas, at least two GPS receivers, and a position solution module in signal communication with the at least two GPS receivers.
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H04B 1/707 - Spread spectrum techniques using direct sequence modulation
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SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SYNTHESIZING GPS MEASUREMENTS TO IMPROVE GPS LOCATION AVAILABILITY
There are situations where GPS signals are received from less than four satellites. In order to improve the GPS location availability, disclosed here are systems and methods for synthesizing GPS measurements, which, together with fewer than four available real GPS signals, can be used to calculate a position fix. In particular, GPS range measurements for lost satellites, which are satellites that were previously tracked but are now not tracked, are synthesized to improve GPS signal availability, The synthesized measurements are used along with real measurements to enable accurate position fix even when GPS satellite availability is poor. Different synthesized measurement generation schemes, depending on whether an INS/DR aiding system is available, are further described herein.
Systems and methods for processing navigational solutions are provided. In this regard, a representative system includes a navigational computing device comprising a processor and memory that stores a navigational solution manager that is executed by the processor to provide a receiver position. The navigational solution manager is configured to collect navigational data from at least one satellite vehicle, compute initialization navigational measurements based on the collected navigational data, and compute the receiver position using the initialization navigation measurements.
Systems and methods for global differential positioning are provided. In this regard, a representative system, among others, may include a first receiver being configured to receive global correction data from a single source; and a computing device being configured to adjust positional estimates based on the received global correction data. A representative method, among others, for global differential positioning may include receiving satellite measurement information; receiving global correction data from a single source; generating location information based on the received satellite information; adjusting the location information based on the global correction data to produce adjusted location information; and delivering the adjusted location information.
A system and method for providing code tracking in a CDMA based communications receiver. In example systems and methods, a CDMA receiver, such as a GPS receiver, receives a signal and demodulates the signal to yield a digital IF signal. The digital IF signal is down-converted to a received code signal. Early, prompt and late correlation results are determined by correlating the received code signal with early, prompt and late duplicates of the received code signal. The early, prompt and late correlation results are used to calculate a code phase error using a noise- floor independent function of all three correlation results.
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NAVIGATIONAL POSITIONING WITHOUT TIMING INFORMATION
Provided herein are systems and methods that enable a navigation receiver to determine receiver position using a low ppm (Parts Per Million) Real Time Clock (RTC) under weak satellite signal reception conditions without the need for timing information from navigation satellites or aiding systems. Under weak signal conditions, the receiver is unable to demodulate navigation data bits but may be able to synchronize with the one ms PN sequences and 20 ms data bit edges of a received signal. In this case, the receiver is unable to determine the signal travel time from the navigation data bits resulting in one ms and/or 20 ms integer ambiguities in the travel time. Systems and methods are provided for resolving these one ms and/or 20 ms integer ambiguities and correct or reconstruct the pseudorange measurements accordingly. The reconstructed pseudorange measurements are used to accurately determine the receiver position.
Provided herein is multi-function platform comprising a plurality of devices and a large memory that is external to the devices and shared among the devices. In an embodiment, a Direct Memory Access (DMA) controller is provided for each device to efficiently transfer data between the device and the shared memory. More than one DMA may be provided for a device. For example, separate DMAs may be provided for different components of a device that perform different subfunctions enabling efficient transfer of data between the different components of the device and the shared memory. In another embodiment, each device comprises a local embedded memory and is provided with a DMA for transferring data between the local memory and the shared memory. Examples of devices that can be included in the platform include a GNSS receiver, a audio player, a video player, a wireless communication device, a routing device, or the like.
Provided herein are methods and system for enabling a navigation receiver to generate receiver specific satellite orbital models based on relatively small sets of parameters obtained from a server. In an embodiment, a set of parameters for a satellite includes a force parameter (e.g., solar radiation pressure), initial condition parameters (e.g., satellite position and velocity at a time instance) and time correction coefficients, which the receiver uses in a numerical integration to predict the position of the satellite. The set of parameters needed for the integration is small compared to current methods which require transmission of a complete set of ephemeris and other parameters for each satellite. Since the set of parameters is relatively small, it requires less communication resources to transmit compared to current methods. Further, the integration based on the small set of parameters enables the receiver to predict satellite orbits with low computational load.
Provided herein are systems and methods for achieving long integration of an input signal by compensating the frequency and phase of each sample of the input signal. In an embodiment, a Numerical Controlled Oscillator (NCO) of the receiver is modified to include a variable control input that allows the output frequency of the NCO to be adjusted based on a rate of change of frequency. The rate of change of frequency may be estimated based on the relative velocity of a satellite to the receiver computed from satellite orbit parameters or ephemeris. The rate of change of frequency may also be estimated based on frequency measurements of previous samples. The modified NCO may be used as a carrier NCO or code NCO of the receiver to provide frequency and phase compensation of each sample of the input signal.
Devices and methods are described for determining position information without broadcast ephemeris data for a spanned time period using predictions of future satellite states. These predictions include predictions of satellite clock bias. During the spanned time period, broadcast ephemeris is received such that a broadcast-ephemeris-derived satellite clock bias may be determined. The predictions of satellite clock bias subsequent to the receipt of the broadcast ephemeris may then be corrected based upon the broadcast-ephemeris-derived satellite clock bias.
G01S 1/00 - Beacons or beacon systems transmitting signals having a characteristic or characteristics capable of being detected by non-directional receivers and defining directions, positions, or position lines fixed relatively to the beacon transmitters; Receivers co-operating therewith
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A METHOD OF MIXED DATA ASSISTED AND NON DATA ASSISTED NAVIGATION SIGNAL ACQUISITION, TRACKING AND REACQUISITION
The present invention provides systems and methods for enabling a navigation signal receiver to perform both data assisted and non-data assisted integration to provide better integration during signal acquisition, reacquisition and tracking. In data assisted integration mode, a receiver uses known or predicted data bits to remove the modulated data bits of a received signal prior to integration. In non data assisted integration mode, when the data bits are not known or predictable, the receiver uses an optimal estimation or maximum likelihood algorithm to determine the polarities of the modulated data bits of the received signal. This may be done by determining which of various possible bit pattern yields the maximum integrated power. When the modulated data bits are not known or predictable over a limited range, the receiver carries out data assisted integration over the known or predictable data bits and additional non data assisted integration.
H03M 7/38 - Conversion to or from differential modulation with several bits, i.e. the difference between successive samples being coded by more than one bit adaptive
In one embodiment, a system is provided that is operable to: predict satellite states using historical satellite state data for at least one satellite of a satellite-based positioning system; derive sets of parameters representative of the predicted satellite states; differentially compress the sets parameters into sets of compressed parameters; transmit the sets of compressed parameters to a client device over a first communication channel; uncompress the sets of compressed parameters into sets of recovered parameters; selectively reconstruct at least one reconstructed satellite state in the client device using the sets of recovered parameters; and determine the position of the client device using the at least one reconstructed satellite state along with timing information of satellite data received over a second communication channel.
G01S 1/00 - Beacons or beacon systems transmitting signals having a characteristic or characteristics capable of being detected by non-directional receivers and defining directions, positions, or position lines fixed relatively to the beacon transmitters; Receivers co-operating therewith
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METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR TEMPERATURE RELATED FREQUENCY DRIFT COMPENSATION
Systems and methods are provided that compensate for frequency drift due to temperature variation without the need for a temperature sensor. In one embodiment, a navigation receiver with an integrated communication device receives a base station reference signal, which is used to periodically calibrate a local oscillator frequency. In another embodiment, the calibrated local oscillator frequency drives a counter that is used to provide code phase estimation at the start of satellite signal acquisition. To provide temperature compensation in one embodiment, the calibrated local frequency is used to drive one or more counters at different calibration rates (i.e., different time intervals between calibrations). Count values from these counters are used to determine compensation for frequency drift due to temperature variation based on predicted frequency drift variation patterns between calibrations. This temperature compensation does not require a temperature sensor and further improves the accuracy of the code phase estimation.
G01S 1/00 - Beacons or beacon systems transmitting signals having a characteristic or characteristics capable of being detected by non-directional receivers and defining directions, positions, or position lines fixed relatively to the beacon transmitters; Receivers co-operating therewith
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SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ESTIMATING CELL CENTER POSITION FOR CELL ID BASED POSITIONING
Systems and methods for estimating a cell center location in a wireless communication system having an interface to a satellite positioning system ('SPS') such as for example, a Geosynchronous Positioning System ('GPS'). The wireless communication system provides service to mobile stations within a cell, each mobile station includes a SPS receiver. Examples of the systems and methods for estimating a cell center location analyze the mobile station locations in a cell as a uniform distribution of mobile station locations and calculate a statistical measure characterizing the mobile station locations as a function of the mobile station locations. In one example, the statistical measure is a maximum likelihood mobile station location. In another example, the statistical measure is the mean mobile station location in the cell. The estimated cell center location may be used to approximate the location of the mobile station during a warm or cold restart of the SPS receiver part of the mobile station.
G01S 5/00 - Position-fixing by co-ordinating two or more direction or position-line determinations; Position-fixing by co-ordinating two or more distance determinations
G01S 1/00 - Beacons or beacon systems transmitting signals having a characteristic or characteristics capable of being detected by non-directional receivers and defining directions, positions, or position lines fixed relatively to the beacon transmitters; Receivers co-operating therewith
G01S 19/06 - Cooperating elements; Interaction or communication between different cooperating elements or between cooperating elements and receivers providing aiding data employing an initial estimate of the location of the receiver as aiding data or in generating aiding data
G01S 19/09 - Cooperating elements; Interaction or communication between different cooperating elements or between cooperating elements and receivers providing processing capability normally carried out by the receiver
G01S 19/25 - Acquisition or tracking of signals transmitted by the system involving aiding data received from a cooperating element, e.g. assisted GPS
G01S 19/46 - Determining position by combining measurements of signals from the satellite radio beacon positioning system with a supplementary measurement the supplementary measurement being of a radio-wave signal type
G01S 5/02 - Position-fixing by co-ordinating two or more direction or position-line determinations; Position-fixing by co-ordinating two or more distance determinations using radio waves
H04W 4/02 - Services making use of location information
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DETERMINING POSITION WITHOUT CURRENT BROADCAST EPHEMERIS
Devices and methods are described for determining position information without broadcast ephemeris data for extended time periods. A client device is disclosed that stores satellite states determined from broadcast ephemeris and numerically integrates equations of motion with regard to the stored satellite states to determine current satellites states. The client device uses the current satellite states in conjunction with received satellite signals to determine where the satellite signals were received.
G01S 1/00 - Beacons or beacon systems transmitting signals having a characteristic or characteristics capable of being detected by non-directional receivers and defining directions, positions, or position lines fixed relatively to the beacon transmitters; Receivers co-operating therewith
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GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM RECEIVER TIMELINE MANAGEMENT
Satellite positioning system (SATPS) receiver that has a plurality of modes and channels, where a timeline module configures the channels based on the mode of operation of the SATPS receiver and reconfigures the channels if the mode of operation of the SATPS changes.
G01S 1/00 - Beacons or beacon systems transmitting signals having a characteristic or characteristics capable of being detected by non-directional receivers and defining directions, positions, or position lines fixed relatively to the beacon transmitters; Receivers co-operating therewith
Systems and methods are described for determining location of wireless devices using signal strength of signals detected by the wireless devices. The strength of signals received from identifiable sources is typically compared to reference signal strength measurements collected or estimated at known locations. Information identifying the source of the signals is typically obtained from data provided in the signals. Mappers associate combinations of reference signal strengths with geometrically shaped geographical regions such that signal strength measurements can be used as indices to locate a region in which a wireless device can be found. Systems and methods are described for receiving signal strength information from known locations where the information can be used to update and improve mapping system databases.
A system and method for for synchronizing a receiver of a bit stream to the bit stream include a correlator to remove the PN code modulation and to generate a stream of time sequence values (samples) from the received bits. A plurality of accumulators are included, each accumulator corresponding to an offset in a series of time intervals starting with a first time period. The accumulators add a number of values equal to a number of samples in a bit period. The values added by each accumulator is a set of values starting with the value at the offset corresponding to the accumulator. A plurality of magnitude calculators receives a sum from the corresponding accumulator and calculates a magnitude. A plurality of non-coherent summers are then used to add the magnitudes for each offset in each bit period for all of the received bits. The total sum in each non-coherent summer is then analyzed to find the highest value, such that the offset corresponding to the non-coherent summer with the highest value represents the location of the bit transition in the bit period.
An Aided Location Communication System ('ALCS') is described. The ALCS may include a geolocation server including a non-GPS position server, at least one server aiding database, server position-determination module, and a server fusion module. The ALCS may also include an Aided Location Communication Device ('ALCD') including a communication section in signal communication with the geolocation server, and a position-determination section having a GPS Engine.
G01S 1/00 - Beacons or beacon systems transmitting signals having a characteristic or characteristics capable of being detected by non-directional receivers and defining directions, positions, or position lines fixed relatively to the beacon transmitters; Receivers co-operating therewith
G01S 5/14 - Determining absolute distances from a plurality of spaced points of known location
Methods and systems consistent with the present invention provide a method for dynamically controlling power consumption in a digital demodulator circuit by varying clock rates and bit widths of demodulator components including an analog to digital converter, decimation filter, OFDM operating engine, FEC decoder, and MPE-FEC processor, according to parameters and conditions of the received signal including modulation mode, signal to noise ratio, effective bit transmission rate, bit error rate, packet error rate, adjacent channel interference, and co-channel interference.
A software communication device with a tunable transceiver that is capable of receipt of both satellite positioning data and a communication network with a wireless network where positioning data is used to efficiently make a connection to the communication network or communication link to a network is used reduce the time to acquire GPS satellites and determine position.
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G01S 5/14 - Determining absolute distances from a plurality of spaced points of known location
An input random access memory (RAM) module of a fast Fourier transform (FFT) engine of a DVB receiver is used to store, during a first time period, delayed versions of an input signal that includes a first orthogonal frequency divisional multiplexed (OFDM) symbol and a cyclic prefix therefor received at the receiver, and samples for a second OFDM symbol to be demodulated using the FFT engine during a second time period. Delayed versions of the input signal are stored in the input RAM module of the FFT engine in a first-in-first-out (FIFO) fashion for signal acquisition and for FFT processing. Similarly, an output RAM module of the FFT engine is used to store moving averages of an autocorrelation of the input signal with its cyclic prefix computed over presumed guard intervals and over multiple symbols.
A frequency domain diversity DVB receiver device (FIG. 1) includes multiple antenna ports (102a and 102b) for receiving radio signals, and radio signal processing circuits (103a and 103b) connected to the antenna ports that convert the received radio signals into digital samples. The digital samples from the different antenna ports time-share a front-end processor which processes the digital samples to provide time-domain symbols. The time-domain symbols are stored in time-domain symbol buffers (105a and 105b) according to which of the antenna ports the time-domain symbols are received. A fast fourier transform circuit (106a and 106b) then retrieves the time-domain symbols and converts them frequency-domain symbols, which are then stored one or more frequency-domain symbol buffers (107a and 107b) according to the antenna ports the corresponding radio signals are received. A diversity processor (108) which combines the frequency-domain symbols from the frequency-domain symbol buffers.
A method is provided for decimating a digital signal by a factor of M and matching it to a desired channel bandwidth. The method applies the digital signal input samples to a (M-I) stage tapped delay line, downsamples the input samples and the output samples of each tapped delay line stage by a factor of M, and applies each of the M downsampled sample value streams to M allpass HR filters, respectively. The M allpass HR filtered sample streams are then summed and scaled by a factor of 1/M. The result can then be filtered by a digital channel filter.
A method and a voltage-controlled oscillator provide an output signal with a frequency within one of a plurality of frequency bands, while reducing or eliminating temperature-induced band-switching or other drifts in operating frequency. The band-switching is reduced or eliminated by providing a circuit that adjusts a tuning sensitivity according to a calibration performed under test conditions. For example, such a voltage-controlled oscillator may include (a) a digitally controlled variable current source for providing a first control current to select one of the frequency bands for the voltage-controlled oscillator; (b) a variable transconductance circuit providing a second control current to compensate a variation in operating frequency; and (c) a control circuit for varying the frequency of the output signal in accordance with the first and second control signals. The variable transconductance circuit may be programmable by selectively activating elements of an array of varactor circuits, according to a capacitance associated with each varactor circuit. The capacitance associated with each varactor circuit is binary weighted.
A radio frequency integrated circuit for a global positioning system (GPS) application mixes radio frequency GPS signals to obtain a predetermined intermediate frequency that is less than 4fo. In one embodiment, the intermediate frequency is selected to be 1.5fo. An intermediate frequency filter (204) then band-limits the intermediate frequency GPS signals, rolling off at a frequency in the vicinity of 2.5 MHz to achieve substantial attenuation at 3.5-4.0 MHz. An automatic gain control circuit (206) amplifies the filtered intermediate frequency GPS signals to proper voltage levels. The amplified intermediate frequency GPS signals is then digitized by an analog-to-digital converter (207) at a predetermined sampling rate more than twice the intermediate frequency to provide samples of a predetermined number of bits, which are then provided for base band processing by a general purpose microprocessor over an industry- standard serial bus.
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METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MEMORY OPTIMIZATION IN MPE-FEC SYSTEM
A system and a method are provided for processing Multi-Protocol Encapsulation (MPE) under the DVB-H standard. The system includes: (a) a receive buffer having entries organized as columns and rows and in which the addresses for the entries in the receive buffer are arranged sequentially in column-major order; (b) a first process writing MPE data into the receive buffer, in the manner such that, for each frame, the application data portion and the error correction code portion are written sequentially in column major order, (c) a second process decoding the error correction code portion of each frame and which corrects the application data portion in accordance with the decoding; and (d) a third process reading out the application data portion from the receiver buffer column by column, the third process re-reading any column of the application portion that is corrected by the second process, when that column has previously been read by the third process. Under this system, the first process (a) keeps tracks of the locations of the MPE data of each frame in the receive buffer in a mapping table, and (b) writes the MPE data of a next frame is written into the locations of the error correcting code portion of a previous frame, when the locations become available.
H03M 13/00 - Coding, decoding or code conversion, for error detection or error correction; Coding theory basic assumptions; Coding bounds; Error probability evaluation methods; Channel models; Simulation or testing of codes
A method for estimating a Doppler spread and a signal-to-noise ratio of a received signal includes: (a) calculating one or more functions of a carrier component of the received signal at a first time point relative to a pilot signal embedded in the received signal; (b) Calculating the one or more functions of the carrier component of the received signal at a second time point relative to the pilot signal; (c) repeating steps (a) and (b) over multiple time periods, each time period being substantially longer than the second time, and accumulating the one or more functions for the first time points and the second time points; and (d) Deriving the Doppler spread and the signal-to-noise ration based on the accumulated one or more functions calculated at the first and second time points.
A network approach for aided GPS broadcast positioning where A-GPS data is made available in the network and broadcast via cell broadcast servers to wireless devices in order to reduce the time required to determine the position of a wireless device.
A communication device with cross-correlation detection based upon statistical tests to determine whether the off-peak signal energy is consistent with auto-correlation or cross-correlation energy levels.
In one embodiment, a system and method of dead reckoning navigation for a vehicle uses a set of accelerometers . Sensed accelerations from the set are converted into a vehicle body frame of reference set of accelerations . The resulting converted accelerations are then used to determine a dead-reckoning longitudinal acceleration for the vehicle . By integrating the longitudinal acceleration along a heading for the vehicle, a dead- reckoning-determined location for the vehicle is provided.
G01C 21/16 - Navigation; Navigational instruments not provided for in groups by using measurement of speed or acceleration executed aboard the object being navigated; Dead reckoning by integrating acceleration or speed, i.e. inertial navigation
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SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETECTING MULTIPATH EFFECTS IN A GPS RECEIVER
A multipath component in a GPS signal received is detected when an asymmetry exists in the correlation function of the received signal and the expected GPS signal. The multipath component is also detected, even without a line-of-sight component in the received GPS signal, when a peak of the correlation function jumps a significant distance (i.e., a sudden, significant change in a detected code phase).
Synchronizing a Radio Network with End User Radio Terminals A Mobile Station that is able to receive GPS signals and compare the frequency of the GPS received time signal with a time signal from a network in order to determine the difference between the signals and communicate that difference back to the network.
An Aided Location Communication System ('ALCS') is described that may include a geolocation server and a wireless communication device having a GPS section where the GPS receiver section is capable of being selectively switched between a standalone mode and at least one other mode for determining a geolocation of the wireless communications device. An Aided Location Communication Device ('ALCD') is also described. The ALCD includes a position-determination section having a GPS receiver and a communication section where the position-determination section is selectively switchable between a GPS-standalone mode and at least one other mode for determining a geolocation of the ALCD.
G01S 1/00 - Beacons or beacon systems transmitting signals having a characteristic or characteristics capable of being detected by non-directional receivers and defining directions, positions, or position lines fixed relatively to the beacon transmitters; Receivers co-operating therewith
G01S 5/14 - Determining absolute distances from a plurality of spaced points of known location
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SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING LOCATION BASED SERVICES OVER A NETWORK
In a method for providing location-based information over a network, a plurality of GPS reference data sets, corresponding to a plurality of respective local areas, are acquired at intervals such that each GPS reference data set is updated on a continuous basis. A plurality of aiding data sets are generated at intervals based on the respective GPS data sets, whereby each aiding data set is updated on a continuous basis. The generated aiding data sets are stored at intervals on a data-storing network server, whereby updated aiding data sets are available on a continuous basis for access by a requesting entity via communication with the data-storing network server.
G01S 1/00 - Beacons or beacon systems transmitting signals having a characteristic or characteristics capable of being detected by non-directional receivers and defining directions, positions, or position lines fixed relatively to the beacon transmitters; Receivers co-operating therewith
G01C 21/26 - Navigation; Navigational instruments not provided for in groups specially adapted for navigation in a road network
G01C 21/36 - Input/output arrangements for on-board computers
G01S 19/06 - Cooperating elements; Interaction or communication between different cooperating elements or between cooperating elements and receivers providing aiding data employing an initial estimate of the location of the receiver as aiding data or in generating aiding data
H04W 4/02 - Services making use of location information
H04L 29/08 - Transmission control procedure, e.g. data link level control procedure
A system is provided for storing positional data received from GPS signals in response to an event, and then processing that positional data at a later time to obtain detailed location information of the system at the time of the event. The received GPS signals may be decimated to a desired sampling rate and then stored for later correlation. In one embodiment, the system is a digital camera having an antenna, an RF front end, and a non-volatile memory device. The event which triggers the storage of the positional data is a photo capture by the digital camera. The positional data, in decimated but uncorrelated form, is stored with the image data in the non-volatile memory device. The positional data can then be transferred with the image data to a separate device, such as a personal computer, for post-processing.
A receiver reference oscillator frequency correction system and method are described that provides a receiver with a greater ability to lock onto relatively weak radio frequency signals by determining and estimating an amount of frequency error in a local frequency reference of the receiver, and using the error estimate to maintain frequency coherence with a received signal, thereby allowing tracking over a longer period of time, enabling longer integration times to capture weaker signals without losing frequency coherence.
G01S 1/00 - Beacons or beacon systems transmitting signals having a characteristic or characteristics capable of being detected by non-directional receivers and defining directions, positions, or position lines fixed relatively to the beacon transmitters; Receivers co-operating therewith
G01S 5/02 - Position-fixing by co-ordinating two or more direction or position-line determinations; Position-fixing by co-ordinating two or more distance determinations using radio waves
H03L 1/02 - Stabilisation of generator output against variations of physical values, e.g. power supply against variations of temperature only
A shuttle message that is passed between GPS enabled devices that is processed at either a bit level or word level with data that the GPS enable device has already gathered and augmenting the positioning data stored at GPS enabled devices by retrieving data contained in the shuttle message. The shuttle message is then passed with any updated information from a GPS enabled device to one or more other devices such as a mobile station.
G01S 1/00 - Beacons or beacon systems transmitting signals having a characteristic or characteristics capable of being detected by non-directional receivers and defining directions, positions, or position lines fixed relatively to the beacon transmitters; Receivers co-operating therewith
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DETERMINING POSITION WITHOUT USE OF EPHEMERIS INFORMATION
Devices and methods are described for determining position information without broadcast ephemeris data for extended time periods. A server or client device 110 receives or collects historical state data of satellites of a satellite-based positioning system and generates predictions of future satellite trajectories for future time periods. When a server generates the predictions, the predictions are subsequently transferred to a client device. The client device selects predictions appropriate to time of interest. The time can be any time during a period of at least seven calendar days. The client device reconstructs satellite states using information on the predictions and uses the reconstructed satellite states to acquire satellite signals as appropriate to the current location and time of the client device. The client device determines and/or tracks its position using information of the satellite states and timing information of the satellite signals.
An Aided Location Communication System ('ALCS') is described that may include a geolocation server and a wireless communication device having a GPS section where the GPS receiver section is capable of being selectively switched between a standalone mode and at least one other mode for determining a geolocation of the wireless communications device. An Aided Location Communication Device ('ALCD') is also described. The ALCD includes a position-determination section having a GPS receiver and a communication section where the position-determination section is selectively switchable between a GPS-standalone mode and at least one other mode for determining a geolocation of the ALCD.
G01S 1/00 - Beacons or beacon systems transmitting signals having a characteristic or characteristics capable of being detected by non-directional receivers and defining directions, positions, or position lines fixed relatively to the beacon transmitters; Receivers co-operating therewith
G01S 5/00 - Position-fixing by co-ordinating two or more direction or position-line determinations; Position-fixing by co-ordinating two or more distance determinations
G01S 5/14 - Determining absolute distances from a plurality of spaced points of known location
A virtual satellite system server that collects and transmits aiding and assisting data to satellite positioning system enabled device upon an event occurring or upon receipt of a message where the virtual satellite system server may also have a location server that contains location data and determines which virtual satellite system server may respond to another device seeking aiding or assisting information in order for the other device to determine it's position.
G01S 1/00 - Beacons or beacon systems transmitting signals having a characteristic or characteristics capable of being detected by non-directional receivers and defining directions, positions, or position lines fixed relatively to the beacon transmitters; Receivers co-operating therewith
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