Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Sensor and estimating method
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Application No.: US15631367Application Date: 2017-06-23
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Publication No.: US10473756B2Publication Date: 2019-11-12
- Inventor: Takeshi Nakayama , Shoichi Iizuka , Naoki Honma , Dai Sasakawa
- Applicant: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka
- Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka
- Agency: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C.
- Priority: JP2016-133283 20160705; JP2017-063507 20170328
- Main IPC: G01S7/292
- IPC: G01S7/292 ; G01S13/50 ; G01S7/41 ; G01S13/00 ; G01S13/42 ; G01S7/35 ; G01S13/89 ; G01S13/66

Abstract:
A sensor includes a transmit antenna, a receive antenna, circuitry, and a memory. The transmit antenna includes N transmit antenna elements each transmitting a transmit signal. The receive antenna includes M receive antenna elements each receiving N receive signals including reflection signals reflected by an organism. The circuitry extracts a second matrix corresponding to a predetermined frequency range from an N×M first matrix representing propagation characteristics between each transmit antenna element and each receive antenna element calculated from the receive signals. The circuitry estimates the position of the organism by using the second matrix, and calculates a radar cross-section value with respect to the organism, based on the estimated position and the positions of the transmit antenna and the receive antenna. The circuitry then estimates the posture of the organism by using the calculated radar cross-section value and information indicating associations between radar cross-section values and postures of the organism.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180011169A1 SENSOR AND ESTIMATING METHOD Public/Granted day:2018-01-11
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