Donald W Mcclain

US Patent:

51666928, Nov 24, 1992

Filed:

Aug 19, 1991

Appl. No.:

7/746956

Inventors:

Donald C. McClain - Fountain Valley CA
Andrew L. Spradley - Orange CA
Ki H. Baek - El Toro CA

Assignee:

Loral Aerospace Corp. - New York NY

International Classification:

G01S 7285
G01S 7292
G01S 734

US Classification:

342192

Abstract:

An adaptive RADAR environmental signal filter (1) is described which selectively preprocesses RF RADAR input data prior to the data's utilization by a processor (8). The filter (1) consists of an array of parallel discriminator cells (165) which compare incoming RF RADAR data to a window parameterized by predetermined threshold values. The array of discriminator outputs are networked through combinational logic (59) in order to provide an output correlation signal (63) to an external processor (8). A discriminator enable latch (55) synchronizes the discriminator outputs as the outputs pass through the combinational logic (59).