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US 6130857

AURAL ENHANCEMENT OF ACTIVE SONAR SYSTEMS

Assignee

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECREATRY OF THE NAVY

Filed

Mar 15, 1985

Granted

Oct 10, 2000

Location

ANAHEIM CA US

Abstract

A system is presented for enhancing sonar signals wherein Doppler echoes eived in the time domain from a sonar system are processed by digitizing, shifting to baseband, Fourier transforming to the frequency domain, applying a frequency stretching algorithm designed to expand low Doppler signals, retransforming the signal back to the time domain, reshifting from baseband to original center frequency, converting to analog and outputting the resultant enhanced Doppler time domain signals to either earphones of a sonar operator for audio monitoring or for further processing for visual display.

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35 USC §181 Secrecy Order

Imposed

May 14, 1987

Rescinded

Nov 5, 1999

Duration

12 years, 5 months

Inventor

  • 1JACK R. WILLIAMS

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