| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 5317316 |
Method of altitude track initialization in an aircraft tracking system |
May 31, 1994 |
| A method of processing a plurality of replies of target aircraft provided in response to interrogation signals from the surveillance aircraft during surveillance periods to determine whether an altitude track may be initialized for use in a traffic alert and collision avoidance system |
| 5107268 |
Method of multipath track reduction in an aircraft tracking system |
April 21, 1992 |
| In a Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System (TCAS), response to interrogations can result in normal, multipath (image), and mixed multipath (potential image) tracks. The method for reducing the number of false tracks includes the steps of selecting a track to be updated from an |
| 5081457 |
Apparatus for reducing synchronous fruit in TCAS surveillance systems |
January 14, 1992 |
| A system wherein TCAS transmissions have two jitter components added to the jitter component utilized in the interscan interval to minimize TCAS interference with ground station operation. The jitter components minimize the establishment of false intruder tracks caused by responses to gr |
