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US 8,138,964 B2Granted
Tracking air and ground vehicles
AssigneeRaytheon Company
InventorTimothy P. Donovan
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Abstract
In one aspect, an air and ground vehicle tracking system includes a base station configured to transmit locations of air vehicles to a radio and a GPS receiver disposed in a ground vehicle and configured to derive a location of the ground vehicle. The radio is configured to receive locations of air vehicles, receive locations of other ground vehicles and broadcast a location of the ground vehicle to the base station. The system also includes a display configured to render locations of the air and ground vehicles.
Claims20
An air and ground vehicle tracking system comprising:
- a base station configured to transmit locations of air vehicles to a radio disposed in a ground vehicle;
- and
- a GPS receiver disposed in the ground vehicle and configured to derive a location of the ground vehicle;
- the radio configured to:
- receive the locations of air vehicles from the base station;
- receive locations of other ground vehicles;
- broadcast a location of the ground vehicle to the base station;
- and
- a display configured to render the locations of the air and ground vehicles at an airport,
- wherein the display is disposed at one of the ground vehicle, the other ground vehicles or a control tower at the airport.
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A method to track vehicles comprising:
- determining a location of a first ground vehicle;
- broadcasting the location of the first ground vehicle from the first ground vehicle to other ground vehicles using a radio disposed at the first ground vehicle;
- receiving locations of air vehicles from a base station using the radio;
- receiving locations of the other ground vehicles from the other ground vehicles;
- and
- rendering the locations of the air vehicles and the ground vehicles at an airport on a display disposed at one of the first ground vehicle, the other ground vehicles or a control tower at the airport.
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An article comprising:
- a non-transitory machine-readable medium that stores executable instructions to track vehicles, the instructions causing a machine to:
- determine a location of a first ground vehicle;
- broadcast the location of the first ground vehicle from the first ground vehicle to other ground vehicles using a radio disposed at the first ground vehicle;
- receive locations of air vehicles from a base station;
- receive locations of the other ground vehicles from the other ground vehicles;
- and
- render the locations of the air vehicles and the other ground vehicles in and around an airport on a display disposed at the first ground vehicle.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.