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Receiving circuit

US4786909A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJan 24, 1986
Grant dateNov 22, 1988
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Expiry dateJan 24, 2006

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG01S3/74
  • WIPO fieldMeasurement
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

In a receiving circuit a control circuit and a direction finding circuit generate a digitally encoded "descriptor" which characterizes pulses of r.f. radiation received in a particular azimuthal direction and having a particular carrier frequency. The "descriptor" may be compared with data stored in a processing circuit representing r.f. pulses emitted by sources which have already been detected or which are known to exist. To reduce the workload on processing circuit a number of emulator circuits generate pulse patterns which simulate pulses produced by known sources of little inherent interest. If the received pulses match the simulated pulses a gate inhibits control circuit.

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