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US 4955003Tier 3 — General Defense

PHASE ACCUMULATOR-BEARING TRACKER

Assignee

US Government

Filed as: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY

Filed

Jun 4, 1984

Granted

Sep 4, 1990

Location

FITCHVILLE CT US

Abstract

A passive sonar bearing tracker having spaced arrays wherein the target bing is a function of the electrical phase angle of the signal between the arrays. Confidence in the bearing estimate is increased in spite of the relatively narrow bandwidth of the signal and a low signal-to-noise ratio by sequentially bandpass frequency filtering each very narrow component of the narrowband signal, computing the phase difference between respective filter pairs, accumulating the phase differences over a selected time period and displaying the phase difference calibrated as a bearing. In a second embodiment the individual differences are weighed according to the magnitude of the frequency signal at the associated very narrow band.

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35 USC §181 Secrecy Order

Imposed

Jun 13, 1986

Rescinded

May 4, 1990

Duration

3 years, 10 months

Inventor

  • 1WARREN A. GOLDMAN

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