Location determination system and method using television broadcast signals
US5510801A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Mar 1, 1994 |
| Grant date | Apr 23, 1996 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 1, 2014 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG01S5/0009
- WIPO fieldMeasurement
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A location determination system and method in which mobile receiver units are in an area of at least three fixed commercial television stations, each television station broadcasting standard television signals, including horizontal, vertical and chrominance burst synchronizing signals. The standard television signals from selected ones of said television station are received at the mobile receiver unit and the times of arrival synchronizing signals of the selected ones of the television stations, respectively, are measured to produce mobile receiver unit signals corresponding thereto. A fixed reference station receives the television signals and detects any frequency and wavelength drift in the standard television signals from each of the fixed commercial television stations, respectively, and produces reference receiver correction signals. A processor, which may be at the reference station or at the mobile receiver units, computes the location of the mobile receiver units from the mobile receiver unit signals and the reference receiver correction signals.
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