G01S 3/8083
Determining direction of source
Official title: {determining direction of source}
G01S3/8083 (Determining direction of source) appears on 434 US grants and 410 published applications in this corpus.
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Method for obtaining a position of a sound source18 Aug 2026US 12,710,502 B2Nomono AS
- Apparatus and method for narrowband direction- of-arrival estimation4 Aug 2026US 12,701,355 B2Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e. V.
- System and method for estimating direction of arrival and delays of early room reflections9 Jun 2026US 12,652,489 B2B. G. Negev Technologies and Application Ltd., At Ben-Gurion University
- Tracking control method and apparatus, storage medium, and computer program product12 May 2026US 12,627,941 B2Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
- Method for terminal to transmit first signal and device for same in wireless communication system12 May 2026US 12,627,956 B2LG Electronics Inc.
- Method for determining a direction from which an emergency vehicle is approaching a vehicle8 Oct 2026US 2026/0309827 A1Mercedes-Benz Group AG
- Noise camera, server for processing documentary evidence from noise-cameras and methods10 Sep 2026US 2026/0266944 A1Intelligent Instruments Corporation
- Tracking based on sound and sensor fusion20 Aug 2026US 2026/0243863 A1QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Focusing a camera capturing video data using directional data of audio23 Jul 2026US 2026/0214330 A1Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
- Baffle structure induced amplitude and phase differences4 Jun 2026US 2026/0155129 A1Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
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- Acoustic counter-sniper system135US 6,178,141 B1GTE Internetworking Incorporated · 2001
- Acoustic tracking system125US 5,563,849 ACoastal & Offshore Pacific Corporation · 1996
- Method and apparatus for accurately determing the location of signal transducers in a passive sonar or other transducer array system89US 5,617,371 ADiagnostic/Retrieval Systems, Inc. · 1997