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"System For Extraction And Analysis Of Significant Radioelectric Signals"

Abstract: The invention concerns a system for extraction and analysis of significant radioelectric signals. It includes an overall number N of tracks. Each track Vi includes a receptor connected to a digital acquisition device of analog signals generating a digital signal SNi. Each track Vi includes a bank of polyphased filters, one or more digital signals SEi being generated by the bank of polyphased filters of the digital SNi signal emitted by the digital acquisition device of analog signals. The extracted digital signals SEi each have a frequency bandwidth less than that of the signal SNi received by the digital acquisition device of the analog signals. The system includes at least one device for the distribution of extracted digital signals adapt...

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Application #
Filing Date
01 January 2009
Publication Number
20/2009
Publication Type
INA
Invention Field
PHYSICS
Status
Email
Parent Application
Patent Number
Legal Status
Grant Date
2018-08-09
Renewal Date

Applicants

THALES
45, RUE DE VILLIERS, 92200 NEUILLY SUR SEINE, FRANCE.

Inventors

1. PATRICK GOGUILLON
142 RUE DU PRESIDENT WILSON, 92300 LEVALLOIS PERRET, FRANCE.
2. PHILIPPE VIRAVAU
13, RUE VILLEDO, 75001 PARIS, FRANCE.
3. BRUNO CAZENEUVE
14 ALLEE DU CHANTE RUISSEAU, 91330 YERRES, FRANCE.
4. DOMINIQUE LAMELOT
19 RUE DES TRICOTS, 92140 CLAMART, FRANCE.
5. THIERRY LEBOURG
67 RUE EDOUARD VAILLAND, 95600 EAUBONNE, FRANCE.

Specification

SYSTEM FOR EXTRACTION AND ANALYSIS OF SIGNIFICANT RADIOELECTRIC SIGNALS The invention relates to a system for extracting and analyzing radioelectric signals of interest, that is to say signals corresponding to one or more given uses of the spectrum. In particular, the invention applies to the system for the radio-monitoring of radioelectric emissions in real time, constrained time, or in deferred time. In the field of radiosurveillance of radiofrequency emissions, notably in the spectrum control applications, there exist systems whose architecture is suited to the processing in real time or in deferred time of signals of interest present in a broadband spectrum, that is to say lying between a few kilohertz and several hundred megahertz according to the frequency range observed. The object of these radiosurveillance systems is notably the analysis and the extraction of the information carried by all or part of the signals present in this spectrum, such as for example a frequency-modulated radio signal or else a mobile telephone signal. These radiosurveillance systems are designed to work over varied frequency ranges, for example HF, VHF, UHF and SHF. Radiosurveillance systems comprise devices for acquiring radioelectric signals, transforming a radioelectric signal of analog nature into a digital signal. Accordingly, radiosurveillance systems use discrete components for analog digital conversion, possibly followed by digital components allowing band reduction and frequency transposition, designated by the expression "Digital Down Converter", allowing the extraction of a signal of interest in a broadband spectrum. Radiosurveillance systems also comprise devices for processing and analyzing radioelectric signals making it possible to identify, extract and characterize the so-called signals of interest. For this purpose, radiosurveillance systems use detectors to reveal the presence of a radio-emission signal and digital computation means. Radiosurveillance systems must cope with an increasingly varied and increasingly extensive range of use of the frequency spectrum. In particular, the architectures of the devices for processing and analyzing the radioelectric signals must be able to respond to the requirements of systematic processing, that is to say with no sensible loss of information, over an increasingly wide frequency band. Furthermore, radiosurveillance systems must be able to extract and process the narrowband signals distributed over these wide frequency bands. Now, radiosurveillance systems using discrete components for frequency transposition and filtering are intrinsically limited by the bandwidth of the analog digital converters and by the number of discrete components implemented allowing parallel processing of only a fixed number of signals, defined by the hardware structure. Additionally, current techniques are highly dependent on the hardware resources available. The aim of the invention is notably to alleviate the aforesaid drawbacks. For this purpose, the subject of the invention is notably a system for extracting and analyzing radioelectric signals of interest comprising an integer number N of channels. Each channel V, comprises a receiver linked to an analog signals digital acquisition device delivering a digital signal SNj. Each channel Vj comprises a bank of polyphase filters, one or more extracted digital signals SE, being extracted by the bank of polyphase filters from the digital signal SNi emitted by the analog signals digital acquisition device. The extracted digital signals SEj each have a smaller frequency bandwidth than that of the digital signal SNj received from the analog signals digital acquisition device. The system comprises at least one extracted digital signals distribution device suited to receiving the digital signals extracted SEi from the polyphase filter banks and distributing the digital signals extracted SEj from the polyphase filter banks to one or more processing and storage units. The processing and storage units are suitable for the analysis, characterization and storage of the digital signals received. In an embodiment, the channels Vj comprise a device for selecting the band of interest suitable for reducing the digital signal SNi delivered by an analog signals digital acquisition device to the frequency band of interest for said channel (Vj). This band of interest may be composed of several disjoint sub-bands. Each bank of polyphase filters can carry out systematic and continuous processing operations on the digital signal SNj output from the analog signals digital acquisition device. Advantageously, the extracted digital signals distribution device chooses one of the processing and storage units to which a digital signal extracted SE* must be transmitted as a function of the functional specialization and/or of the availability of said processing and storage unit. In another embodiment, the extracted digital signals distribution device selects extracted digital signals SEj and groups them together into packets before transmitting them to the processing and storage units, said packets being constructed as a function of the resources and of the physical media available. Advantageously, the storage device included in the processing and storage units allows the data to be preserved in memory over a parametrizable duration and these data to be subsequently re-read depending on the requirements of the processing operations carried out in parallel. In a particular embodiment, the polyphase filter banks and/or the extracted digital signals distribution device are included in one or more programmable-logic components. The extracted digital signals distribution device can furthermore be an IP switch. The system can for example be used to convert the set of radioelectric signals into a data stream retransmitted on a digital network of Internet type or else to convert frequency division multiplexed signals into time division multiplexed signals. The system can also be used to implement processing operations relating to multi-antenna communication systems, and/or processing operations relating to high-resolution gononiometry. The invention has notably the advantages that the number of channels that it makes it possible to process at a given instant is not lirnited by the hardware configuration of the invention, but solely by the bandwidth of the communication channels to the computation resources and the processing capability of these resources. Other characteristics and advantages of the invention will become apparent with the aid of the description which follows, given with regard to the appended drawings which represent: • Figure 1, a radiosurveillance system according to the state of the art; • Figure 2, a schematic representing an exemplary architecture of a system according to the invention for extracting and analyzing radioelectric signals of interest over a broad frequency band, suitable notabty for radiosurveillance. Figure 1 represents a radiosurveillance system according to the state of the art. The object of a radiosurveillance system is to detect, extract and characterize the so-called signals of interest over a given geographical area. For this purpose, a radiosurveillance system comprises a number n of receivers 1i...1n making it possible to receive in analog form a signal representative of the radioelectric environment of the radiosurveillance system. These receivers 1i...1n are typically antennas or more generally antenna arrays coupled to a frequency transposition and filtering stage. The radiosurveillance system according to the state of the art can comprise an integer number N of channels, the number n of receivers 1i...1n being equal toN. Thus to each channel Vj, i being an integer included in the interval [1..N], there corresponds the receiver 1j, an analog signals digital acquisition device 2j, a device for selecting the band of interest 3| and a signal processing unit4j. Each receiver 1j delivers an analog signal SAj. This analog signal SAj is then converted into a digital signalj by the analog signals digital acquisition device 2j. In particular, the analog signals digital acquisition device 2; comprises for example components of analog digital converter type for this purpose. The digital signal arising from the analog signals digital acquisition device 2j is for example a digital signal whose frequency band B is chosen as a function of the characteristics of the receiver 1j and of the analog digital converter 2,. So, this digital signal may be limited by the device for selecting the band of interest 3j to a digital signal corresponding to a frequency band of interest Bl that is more reduced than the frequency band B (BI

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1 9-DELNP-2009-Form-18-(31-05-2010).pdf 2010-05-31
2 9-DELNP-2009-Correspondence-Others-(31-05-2010).pdf 2010-05-31
3 abstract.jpg 2011-08-20
4 9-delnp-2009-pct-210.pdf 2011-08-20
5 9-delnp-2009-form-5.pdf 2011-08-20
6 9-delnp-2009-form-3.pdf 2011-08-20
7 9-delnp-2009-form-2.pdf 2011-08-20
8 9-delnp-2009-form-1.pdf 2011-08-20
9 9-delnp-2009-drawings.pdf 2011-08-20
10 9-delnp-2009-description (complete).pdf 2011-08-20
11 9-delnp-2009-correspondence-others.pdf 2011-08-20
12 9-delnp-2009-claims.pdf 2011-08-20
13 9-delnp-2009-abstract.pdf 2011-08-20
14 9-DELNP-2009-FER.pdf 2017-02-23
15 9-DELNP-2009-OTHERS [21-08-2017(online)].pdf 2017-08-21
16 9-DELNP-2009-FORM-26 [21-08-2017(online)].pdf 2017-08-21
17 9-DELNP-2009-FER_SER_REPLY [21-08-2017(online)].pdf 2017-08-21
18 9-DELNP-2009-DRAWING [21-08-2017(online)].pdf 2017-08-21
19 9-DELNP-2009-COMPLETE SPECIFICATION [21-08-2017(online)].pdf 2017-08-21
20 9-DELNP-2009-CLAIMS [21-08-2017(online)].pdf 2017-08-21
21 9-DELNP-2009-Power of Attorney-220817.pdf 2017-08-25
22 9-DELNP-2009-Correspondence-220817.pdf 2017-08-25
23 9-DELNP-2009-FORM 3 [25-10-2017(online)].pdf 2017-10-25
24 9-DELNP-2009-HearingNoticeLetter.pdf 2018-06-14
25 9-DELNP-2009-FORM 3 [22-06-2018(online)].pdf 2018-06-22
26 9-DELNP-2009-Correspondence to notify the Controller (Mandatory) [29-06-2018(online)].pdf 2018-06-29
27 9-DELNP-2009-Written submissions and relevant documents (MANDATORY) [13-07-2018(online)].pdf 2018-07-13
28 9-DELNP-2009-Proof of Right (MANDATORY) [13-07-2018(online)].pdf 2018-07-13
29 9-DELNP-2009-PETITION UNDER RULE 137 [13-07-2018(online)].pdf 2018-07-13
30 9-DELNP-2009-Annexure (Optional) [13-07-2018(online)].pdf 2018-07-13
31 9-DELNP-2009-OTHERS-190718.pdf 2018-07-20
32 9-DELNP-2009-Correspondence-190718.pdf 2018-07-20
33 9-DELNP-2009-PETITION UNDER RULE 137 [08-08-2018(online)].pdf 2018-08-08
34 9-DELNP-2009-PatentCertificate09-08-2018.pdf 2018-08-09
35 9-DELNP-2009-IntimationOfGrant09-08-2018.pdf 2018-08-09
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