公开(公告)号：US10536202B2

公开(公告)日：2020-01-14

申请号：US15720828

申请日：2017-09-29

申请人： RFK Engineering Solutions LLC

发明人： Jeffrey Freedman ,  Michael Mandell ,  Phil Rubin ,  Ted Kaplan ,  David Milliner ,  David Marshack ,  Erik Halvorson

IPC分类号： H04B7/06 ,  H04B7/185 ,  H04W16/28 ,  H01Q3/26 ,  H01Q3/28 ,  H01Q3/36 ,  H01Q3/02 ,  H01Q21/00

摘要： An apparatus includes a plurality of feeds that form analog beams. The plurality of feeds is divided into a plurality of panels, each panel including one or more feeds from the plurality of feeds. The apparatus also includes processing circuitry, which determines a target area for communications coverage and divides the target area into a plurality of regions. The processing circuitry generates, for each region, a plurality of analog beams. A subset of panels of the plurality of panels generates one or more analog beams of the plurality of analog beams. The plurality of analog beams covering each region forms a cluster. The processing circuitry generates, in each cluster, one or more hybrid beams. Each hybrid beam is a digital beam that is generated by combining one or more analog beams of the plurality of analog beams corresponding to the cluster.