An antenna apparatus operates as a base station in a wireless network with spatial nulling performed within such apparatus. The apparatus has an antenna assembly employing a selected reception beam pattern. During a nulling test, a reception beam pattern controller causes the assembly to employ each reception beam pattern. Quality metric determination circuitry determines for each reception beam pattern a link quality metric for each of several wireless terminals, based on communication between those wireless terminals and the base station while the assembly employs that reception beam pattern. Reception beam determination circuitry determines, from the various link quality metrics, a reception beam pattern from the reception beam patterns for use for subsequent communication with the wireless terminals. A reception beam pattern can be altered seeking to reduce interference source effects and to maintain an appropriate level of link quality regarding each wireless terminal communicating with the base station.

An antenna apparatus operates as a base station in a wireless network with spatial nulling performed within such apparatus. The apparatus has an antenna assembly employing a selected reception beam pattern. During a nulling test, a reception beam pattern controller causes the assembly to employ each reception beam pattern. Quality metric determination circuitry determines for each reception beam pattern a link quality metric for each of several wireless terminals, based on communication between those wireless terminals and the base station while the assembly employs that reception beam pattern. Reception beam determination circuitry determines, from the various link quality metrics, a reception beam pattern from the reception beam patterns for use for subsequent communication with the wireless terminals. A reception beam pattern can be altered seeking to reduce interference source effects and to maintain an appropriate level of link quality regarding each wireless terminal communicating with the base station.

A radiowave information output device receives radiowave information for a reception radiowave being a radiowave received by a radiowave sensor, the radiowave information including identification information and position specification information relating to a transmission source of the radiowave, executes collation in such a way as to determine whether reception meta data match with collation meta data, the reception meta data being information included in the radiowave information and being identification information relating to the transmission source of the radiowave, the collation meta data being identification information relating to a transmission source of a known radiowave, estimates, for an unknown radiowave being the reception radiowave whose reception meta data do not match with any piece of the collation meta data, a position of a transmission source of the unknown radiowave, and outputs unknown radiowave information being information relating to a position of the transmission source of the unknown radiowave.

A radiowave information output device receives radiowave information for a reception radiowave being a radiowave received by a radiowave sensor, the radiowave information including identification information and position specification information relating to a transmission source of the radiowave, executes collation in such a way as to determine whether reception meta data match with collation meta data, the reception meta data being information included in the radiowave information and being identification information relating to the transmission source of the radiowave, the collation meta data being identification information relating to a transmission source of a known radiowave, estimates, for an unknown radiowave being the reception radiowave whose reception meta data do not match with any piece of the collation meta data, a position of a transmission source of the unknown radiowave, and outputs unknown radiowave information being information relating to a position of the transmission source of the unknown radiowave.

Techniques are provided for steering vector generation. A methodology implementing the techniques according to an embodiment includes converting time domain data received from an antenna array to channelized frequency domain data. The method also includes receiving a request from a signal detection system, the request including a timestamp and duration of a detected signal of interest (SOI) and an indication that the SOI is pulsed or continuous. The method further includes generating, for a pulsed SOI, steering vectors to steer the antenna array to the pulsed SOI based on a segment of the time domain data stored in a first memory and identified by the time stamp and duration; and generating, for a continuous SOI, steering vectors to steer the antenna array to the continuous SOI based on a segment of the channelized frequency domain data stored in a second memory and identified by the time stamp and duration.

A dual band radio frequency signal acquisition and source location system, provided with a steerable phased array antenna operable in a first and a second radio frequency band. A digital signal processor electrically connected to the steerable phased array antenna is configured to control steering of an antenna beam of the steerable phased array antenna and apply frequency time division multiplexing to radio frequency signaling in the first and the second radio frequency bands. In particular, the first frequency band may be 2.4 GHz Bluetooth/Bluetooth Low Energy, and the second frequency band may be 900 MHz passive UHF RFID.

A method and system are presented for determining properties of an electromagnetic waveform. The method comprises: providing measured parametric EM field data indicative of measured vector components of electric and magnetic fields of an EM waveform measured in at least one instance of time: providing reference data indicative of a plurality of reference data sets, each data set comprising: a reference steering vector parameters indicative of a certain respective direction of arrival (DO A), and a corresponding parametric EM field reference data including reference vector components of an electric and magnetic field pertaining to a wavefront propagating with the DO A of the corresponding reference steering vector parameters; determining a matching score between the measured parametric EM field data and the parametric EM field reference data of one or more of the reference data sets; and in case the matching score of a certain reference data set complies with a certain threshold condition, determining that said measured parametric EM field data corresponds to said EM waveform having a single EM wavefront thereby enabling to discriminate between measured EM waveforms having a single wavefront and measured EM waveforms having multiple wavefronts.

Disclosed herein is to an angle-of-departure measurement technology that receives radio frequency signals transmitted from transmitting antennas and measures angular positions from the transmitting antennas with respect to the receiving antenna. A wireless receiver includes an IQ demodulator configured to perform IQ demodulation on signals received from the receiving antenna, a phase sample value can be calculated from a phase value of a ratio of I and Q signals, and a phase difference value between the plurality of transmitting antennas and the receiving antenna can be estimated from a phase sample value. An angular position of the wireless receiver can be calculated from the estimated phase difference value.

Disclosed herein is to an angle-of-departure measurement technology that receives radio frequency signals transmitted from transmitting antennas and measures angular positions from the transmitting antennas with respect to the receiving antenna. A wireless receiver includes an IQ demodulator configured to perform IQ demodulation on signals received from the receiving antenna, a phase sample value can be calculated from a phase value of a ratio of I and Q signals, and a phase difference value between the plurality of transmitting antennas and the receiving antenna can be estimated from a phase sample value. An angular position of the wireless receiver can be calculated from the estimated phase difference value.

An estimation device includes: M transmission antenna elements each transmitting a first transmission signal; N transmitter-receivers each including a reception antenna element and receiving, over a predetermined period, a first reception signal including a reflection signal that is the first transmission signal reflected by a first living body, using the reception antenna element; a memory storing training signals that are second reception signals obtained by causing the N transmitter-receivers to preliminarily receive second reception signals including reflection signals that are second transmission signals transmitted from the M transmission antenna elements to a second living body and reflected therefrom; a first vector calculator calculating a first vector for each training signal and each first reception signal by respective predetermined methods; and a circuit identifying the first living body or estimating an orientation of the first living body by a predetermined method, using correlation coefficients calculated from the first vectors.