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US 5530681

CASCADED SHIFT REGISTER BEAMFORMER

Assignee

RAYTHEON COMPANY A CORP. OF DE

Filed

Jun 24, 1983

Granted

Jun 25, 1996

Location

NEWPORT RI US

Abstract

Charge coupled shift registers for sonar beamforming provide many channels of high resolution large delays by the cascading of two registers. Two equivalent embodiments are disclosed. In one embodiment the shift rate of the input shift register is an integer multiple "m" of the shift rate of the output shift register which is responsive to every m th signal presented to it. The other embodiment samples the signal in the input register by selected m th pulses of a pulse train whose frequency is m times the shift frequency of the output register. Each embodiment preserves the higher resolution phase information and incremental delay of the higher frequency sampling of the input shift register. The long time delay is provided by the output shift register operating at the lower shift rate.

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35 USC §181 Secrecy Order

Imposed

Nov 22, 1983

Rescinded

Feb 1, 1995

Duration

11 years, 2 months

Inventor

  • 1ELLIOT L. BLOOM

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