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Receiver for determining a position on the basis of satellite networks

US6081691A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateApr 14, 1998
Grant dateJun 27, 2000
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Expiry dateApr 14, 2018

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG01S19/37
  • WIPO fieldMeasurement
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A receiver for determining position based on GPS satellites and GLONASS satellites. The receiver architecture includes a radio reception chain with an antenna, frequency conversion circuits, an analogue/digital converter operating at very high rate for the GLONASS pathway, and a signal processing circuit with several general-use channels capable of receiving both GPS signals and GLONASS signals. This circuit uses a programmable pseudo-random code generator and a phase servocontrol loop which uses a local oscillator to produce a local transposed carrier frequency; this oscillator is controlled in such a way as to be able to impose a start frequency for the acquisition of a satellite signal.

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