[특허]Digital ranging systems and methods

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국가/구분	United States(US) Patent 등록
국제특허분류(IPC7판)	G01S-013/10 G01S-007/282 G01S-007/34 G01S-007/06 G01S-007/62 G01S-015/10 G01S-015/89 G01S-013/89 G01S-007/529 G01S-007/285
출원번호	US-0187573 (2016-06-20)
등록번호	US-9645229 (2017-05-09)
우선권정보	GB-0717031.9 (2007-08-31)
발명자 / 주소	Jales, Richard Lawrence, Andrew Maindrou, Matthieu
출원인 / 주소	FLIR Belgium BVBA
대리인 / 주소	Haynes and Boone, LLP
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A radar or sonar system amplifies the signal received by an antenna of the radar system or a transducer of the sonar system is amplified and then subject to linear demodulation by a linear receiver. There may be an anti-aliasing filter and an analog-to-digital converter between the amplifier and the linear receiver. The system may also have a digital signal processor with a network stack running in the processor. That processor may also have a network interface media access controller, where the system operates at different ranges, the modulator may produce pulses of two pulse patterns differing in pulse duration and inter-pulse spacing, those pulse patterns are introduced and used to form two radar images with the two images being derived from data acquired in a duration not more than twenty times larger than the larger inter-pulse spacing, or for a radar system, larger than one half of the antenna resolution time. One or more look-up tables may be used to control the amplifier. The radar system may generate digital output which comprises greater than eight levels of radar video.

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1. A system comprising: an amplifier configured to amplify a plurality of return signals received in response to a plurality of transmitted ranging signals;an analog-to-digital converter configured to convert the amplified return signals to digital return signals;a linear demodulator configured to generate digital demodulated signals in response to the digital return signals; anda signal processor configured to process the digital demodulated signals for display and/or analysis. 2. The system of claim 1, wherein the analog-to-digital converter is a sub-sampling analog-to-digital converter. 3. The system of claim 2, further comprising: an anti-aliasing filter configured to filter the amplified return signals provided to the sub-sampling analog-to-digital converter; anda digital filter configured to filter the sub-sampled digital return signals provided to the linear demodulator. 4. The system of claim 2, wherein: the system further comprises a converter configured to convert the return signals to an intermediate frequency for amplification by the amplifier; andthe sub-sampling analog-to-digital converter is configured to operate at a sample rate less than the intermediate frequency. 5. The system of claim 1, further comprising: a media access controller;a physical layer interface configured to communicate with a network; andwherein the signal processor is configured to pass the processed digital demodulated signals to the network through the media access controller and the physical layer interface. 6. The system of claim 5, wherein the media access controller and the physical layer interface are implemented by the signal processor. 7. The system of claim 1, wherein: the system is a radar or sonar system;the ranging signals are radar or sonar signals; andthe ranging signals comprise a plurality of pulses. 8. The system of claim 1, further comprising: a controller configured to control a gain of the amplifier; andwherein the controller comprises at least one look-up table comprising data to compensate for range-dependent variation of the return signals. 9. The system of claim 1, wherein: the amplifier, the analog-to-digital converter, the linear demodulator, and the signal processor are provided by a receiver configured to process the return signals received in response to the ranging signals; andthe system further comprises a transmitter configured to transmit the ranging signals. 10. The system of claim 1, further comprising: a display; andwherein the signal processor is configured to perform dynamic range compression on the processed digital demodulated signals to provide a pseudo-colour representation of the return signals comprising greater than eight levels of video to the display. 11. A method comprising: receiving a plurality of return signals in response to a plurality of transmitted ranging signals;amplifying the return signals;converting the amplified return signals to digital return signals;generating, by a linear demodulator, digital demodulated signals in response to the digital return signals; andprocessing the digital demodulated signals for display and/or analysis. 12. The method of claim 11, wherein the converting is performed by a sub-sampling analog-to-digital converter. 13. The method of claim 12, further comprising: filtering, by an anti-aliasing filter, the amplified return signals provided to the sub-sampling analog-to-digital converter; andfiltering, by a digital filter, the sub-sampled digital return signals provided to the linear demodulator. 14. The method of claim 12, further comprising: converting the return signals to an intermediate frequency for the amplifying; andwherein the sub-sampling analog-to-digital converter is configured to operate at a sample rate less than the intermediate frequency. 15. The method of claim 11, further comprising passing the processed digital demodulated signals to a network through a media access controller and a physical layer interface. 16. The method of claim 15, wherein the media access controller and the physical layer interface are implemented by a signal processor performing the processing. 17. The method of claim 11, wherein: the ranging signals are radar or sonar signals; andthe ranging signals comprise a plurality of pulses. 18. The method of claim 11, further comprising: controlling, by at least one look-up table, a gain associated with the amplifying; andwherein the look-up table comprises data to compensate for range-dependent variation of the return signals. 19. The method of claim 11, further comprising transmitting the ranging signals. 20. The method of claim 11, further comprising: performing dynamic range compression on the processed digital demodulated signals to provide a pseudo-colour representation of the return signals comprising greater than eight levels of video; andproviding the video to a display.

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