Radar device
    1.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US12078745B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-09-03

    申请号:US17439682

    申请日:2020-02-14

    摘要: Each of the plurality of transmission antenna groups includes a plurality of transmission antennas that are disposed at second intervals in a first direction, and are disposed at fourth intervals each of which is an interval of an integral multiple of a third interval in a second direction. Each of the plurality of reception antenna groups includes a plurality of reception antennas that are disposed at fifth intervals in the first direction, and are disposed at sixth intervals each of which is an interval of an integral multiple of the third interval in the second direction. The difference between the second interval and the fifth interval is the first interval, and the difference between the fourth interval and the sixth interval is the third interval.

    Radar apparatus
    2.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US12066569B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-08-20

    申请号:US17887053

    申请日:2022-08-12

    IPC分类号: G01S7/40 G01S7/28 G01S13/02

    摘要: A radar apparatus includes a radar transmission circuit that transmits a radar signal from a transmission array antenna, and a radar reception circuit that receives, from a reception array antenna, a reflected wave signal that is the radar signal reflected at a target. One of the transmission array antenna and the reception array antenna includes a first antenna element group having m antenna elements arranged at a first interval Dt along a first axis direction, wherein m is an integer of 2 or larger. The other one of the transmission array antenna and the reception array antenna includes a second antenna element group having n antenna elements arranged at a second interval Dr along the first axis direction, wherein n is an integer of 4 or larger. The second interval Dr includes several different intervals.

    Radar apparatus and radar method
    3.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11486994B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-11-01

    申请号:US16584341

    申请日:2019-09-26

    IPC分类号: G01S13/34 G01S7/40 G01S13/02

    摘要: A radar apparatus includes a plurality of transmission antennae and a radar transmitter that transmits transmission signals by using the plurality of transmission antennae. In a virtual reception array including a plurality of virtual antennae formed of a plurality of reception antennae and the plurality of transmission antennae, disposition positions of at least two of the virtual antennae are the same as each other, and, transmission intervals of the transmission signals that are sequentially transmitted from transmission antennae corresponding to the at least two virtual antennae among the plurality of transmission antennae are an equal interval.

    Radar apparatus and radar method
    4.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11940524B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-03-26

    申请号:US17952824

    申请日:2022-09-26

    IPC分类号: G01S13/34 G01S7/40 G01S13/02

    摘要: A radar device includes radar transmission and receiving circuits. The radar transmission circuit transmits one or more transmission signals, each having a transmission period Tr. The radar receiving circuit receives one or more reflected signals in which the transmission signals are reflected by an object and estimates a direction of the object based on the reflected signals. The radar transmission circuit includes Nt transmission antennas. A control circuit sets a transmission gap period between a first and second periods, with the transmission gap period being a period during which the transmission signals are not transmitted. The first period is equal to an integral multiple of a period Np, the period Np is equal to or more than Nt times the transmission period Tr, and the second period is set after the first period and is equal to an integral multiple of the period Np.

    Radar device
    8.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11619706B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-04-04

    申请号:US17530188

    申请日:2021-11-18

    摘要: A radar device includes a radar transmitting circuit that transmits radar signals from a transmission array antenna, and a radar receiving circuit that receives returning wave signals, where the radar signals have been reflected at a target, from a receiving array antenna. One of the transmitting array antenna and the receiving array antenna includes multiple first antennas of which phase centers are laid out along a first axis direction. The other of the transmitting array antenna and the receiving array antenna includes multiple second antennas of which phase centers are laid out at a second spacing along a second axis direction that is different from the first axis direction. The multiple first antennas include multiple antennas of which the phase centers are laid out at a first spacing, and multiple antennas of which the phase centers are laid out at a third spacing that is different from the first spacing.

    Road information detection apparatus and road information detection method

    公开(公告)号:US10551494B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-02-04

    申请号:US15786081

    申请日:2017-10-17

    摘要: A road information detector acquires road information by emitting a beam via a variable directivity transmission antenna to a road sign having plural flat portions and includes a transceiver that controls the antenna to scan the beam by switching an emission angle including an azimuth angle relative to the front direction of a vehicle and receives, as reflected wave signals, waves reflected by the flat portions, a distance and reflected wave intensity detector that detects a distance between the vehicle and each of the flat portions and a reflected wave intensity of each of the reflected waves, an emission angle detector that detects the emission angle based on the reflected wave signal, and a road information analyzer that acquires the road information by generating a heat map based on the emission angles, distances, and reflected wave intensities and analyzing the heat map using a threshold value of the wave intensity.