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- Patent Title: Electronic scanning type radar device and method for estimating direction of reception wave
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Application No.: US13859515Application Date: 2013-04-09
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Publication No.: US08730099B2Publication Date: 2014-05-20
- Inventor: Junji Kanamoto , Hiroyuki Akimoto
- Applicant: Honda elesys Co., Ltd.
- Applicant Address: JP Yokohama
- Assignee: Honda elesys Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Honda elesys Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Yokohama
- Agency: Arent Fox LLP
- Priority: JPP2007-331567 20071225; JPP2008-002312 20080109; JPP2008-002313 20080109
- Main IPC: G01S13/00
- IPC: G01S13/00

Abstract:
An electronic scanning type radar device mounted on a moving body includes: a transmission unit transmitting a transmission wave; a reception unit comprising a plurality of antennas receiving a reflection wave of the transmission wave from a target; a beat signal generation unit generating a beat signal from the transmission wave and the reflection wave; a frequency resolution processing unit frequency computing a complex number data; a target detection unit detecting an existence of the target; a correlation matrix computation unit computing a correlation matrix from each of a complex number data of a detected beat frequency; a target consolidation processing unit linking the target in a present detection cycle and a past detection cycle; a correlation matrix filtering unit generating an averaged correlation matrix by weighted averaging a correlation matrix of a target in the present detection cycle and a correlation matrix of a related target in the past detection cycle; and a direction detection unit computing an arrival direction of the reflection wave based on the averaged correlation matrix.
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