Systems and methods for virtual doppler and/or aperture enhancement

    公开(公告)号:US11047974B1

    公开(公告)日:2021-06-29

    申请号:US17117960

    申请日:2020-12-10

    申请人: Oculii Corp.

    发明人: Lang Hong Steven Hong

    IPC分类号: G01S13/68 G01S7/35 G01S13/524

    摘要: A system for virtual Doppler and/or aperture enhancement, preferably including one or more transmitter arrays, receiver arrays, and/or signal processors, and optionally including one or more velocity sensing modules. A method for virtual Doppler and/or aperture enhancement, preferably including transmitting a set of probe signals, receiving a set of reflected probe signals, and/or analyzing the set of received probe signals.

    Periphery monitoring radar device
    102.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11047969B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-06-29

    申请号:US16716872

    申请日:2019-12-17

    申请人: DENSO CORPORATION

    摘要: A periphery monitoring radar device includes a transmission unit, a reception unit, a spectrum generation unit, an azimuth calculation unit, an environment determination unit, and a position calculation unit. The transmission unit transmits a combination of transmission signals modulated using a plurality of modulation modes. The environment determination unit determines whether a peripheral environment is a complex environment from the degree of randomness of a frequency spectrum for each modulation mode. The position calculation unit removes, upon the peripheral environment for at least one modulation mode being determined to be the complex environment, at least one azimuth corresponding to the at least one modulation mode from the azimuths respectively calculated for modulation modes to thereby obtain at least one target azimuth that is at least one of the remaining azimuths except for the removed azimuth; and calculates a position of the vehicle based on the at least one target azimuth.

    SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VIRTUAL DOPPLER AND/OR APERTURE ENHANCEMENT

    公开(公告)号:US20210181330A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-06-17

    申请号:US17117960

    申请日:2020-12-10

    申请人: Oculii Corp.

    发明人: Lang Hong Steven Hong

    IPC分类号: G01S13/68 G01S7/35 G01S13/524

    摘要: A system for virtual Doppler and/or aperture enhancement, preferably including one or more transmitter arrays, receiver arrays, and/or signal processors, and optionally including one or more velocity sensing modules. A method for virtual Doppler and/or aperture enhancement, preferably including transmitting a set of probe signals, receiving a set of reflected probe signals, and/or analyzing the set of received probe signals.

    Method of calibrating a radar system

    公开(公告)号:US10852393B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-12-01

    申请号:US16049373

    申请日:2018-07-30

    摘要: A radar system and method for calibrating a radar system, the method including the steps of: measuring a set of azimuth angles of the radar system to obtain a plurality of measured azimuth array responses, wherein the radar system is physically rotated about a first axis of the radar system between each azimuth angle measurement; measuring a set of elevation angles of the radar system to obtain a plurality of measured elevation array responses, wherein the radar system is physically rotated about a second axis of the radar system between each elevation angle measurement; obtaining an azimuth calibration matrix based on the plurality of measured azimuth array responses and an elevation calibration matrix based on the plurality of measured elevation array responses; and configuring the radar system to apply the azimuth calibration matrix and the elevation calibration matrix to one or more antenna array responses.

    ADAPTIVE DISCOVERY AND CORRECTION OF PHASE ALIGNMENT ERRORS IN MONOPULSE ANTENNA SYSTEMS

    公开(公告)号:US20200166629A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-05-28

    申请号:US16749594

    申请日:2020-01-22

    IPC分类号: G01S13/68 G01S13/44

    摘要: A mainlobe detection process can include a number of tests that are performed to define when the monopulse antenna system will transition from open loop scanning to closed loop scanning and then to tracking. A hybrid tracking technique is also provided which adaptively discovers and corrects for phase alignment error. Magnitude-only tracking can be performed initially to locate the nulls in the azimuth and elevation ratios and to identify the magnitudes of these ratios at these nulls. Phase tracking can be then performed. During phase tracking, phase corrections can be repeatedly applied to the azimuth and elevation difference channels to correct any phase error that may exist. During this process, the magnitudes of the ratios can be used to determine how the phase corrections should be adjusted. Once the hybrid tracking process is complete, the monopulse antenna system is properly phase-aligned and phase tracking will be correctly employed.

    TRACKING DEVICE, TRACKING METHOD AND TRACKING PROGRAM

    公开(公告)号:US20200064459A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-02-27

    申请号:US16548479

    申请日:2019-08-22

    摘要: A tracking device is provided, which may include a correction target area setting module configured to set an area in which an unnecessary echo tends to be generated based on a structure or behavior of a ship, as a correction target area, a correction target echo extracting module configured to extract a target object echo within the correction target area from a plurality of detected target object echoes, as a correction target echo, a scoring module configured to score a matching level between previous echo information on a target object echo and detected echo information on each of the target object echoes, based on the previous echo information, the detected echo information and the extraction result, and a determining module configured to determine a target object echo as a current tracking target by using the scored result.

    Object detection in multiple radars
    107.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10338208B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-07-02

    申请号:US15335974

    申请日:2016-10-27

    发明人: Oded Bialer

    摘要: Methods and systems are provided for controlling a radar system of a vehicle. One or more transmitters are configured to transmit radar signals. A plurality of receivers are configured to receive return radar signals after the transmitted radar signals are deflected from an object proximate the vehicle. A processor is coupled to the plurality of receivers in order to determine when a plurality of detected objects correspond to a single object and to track the single object in a dynamic environment.

    RADAR SENSOR
    108.
    发明申请
    RADAR SENSOR 审中-公开

    公开(公告)号:US20190004146A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-01-03

    申请号:US16067712

    申请日:2017-01-03

    发明人: Andreas von Rhein

    摘要: A radar sensor with a signal generation unit that generates a sequence of output signals for the generation of a radiated radar signal. The radar sensor has a signal receiving unit for the reception and for the processing of reflected radar signals as received signals, which are further processed for the analysis of the received signals. A sequence of voltage signals rising from a starting frequency are generated as output signal. The respective received signals are analyzed by means of Fourier analysis, and the output signals have a modulated starting frequency.

    RADAR AND BEAM CONTROL METHOD
    109.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20180372838A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-12-27

    申请号:US16060108

    申请日:2016-03-04

    摘要: An information acquiring unit for acquiring direction information indicating the direction in which a target is to be searched for and observation accuracy information indicating the observation accuracy in the direction, and a beam arrangement determining unit for determining an arrangement of beams to be emitted by an antenna from the direction information and the observation accuracy information acquired by the information acquiring unit are provided, and a beam controlling unit controls the directions of the beams to be emitted by the antenna in accordance with the arrangement of beams determined by the beam arrangement determining unit.

    Method and Device for Estimating Direction of Arrival
    110.
    发明申请
    Method and Device for Estimating Direction of Arrival 有权
    估计到达方向的方法和装置

    公开(公告)号:US20140159945A1

    公开(公告)日:2014-06-12

    申请号:US13917400

    申请日:2013-06-13

    IPC分类号: G01S13/68

    摘要: A method for determining a DOA (Direction of Arrival) comprises the following steps: (a) providing at least two antennas arranged with a squint angle; (b) producing at least two base beams between two adjacent base beams; (c) every two virtual beams of the multiple virtual beams which cross together at a specific angle are define to a virtual beam set; (d) synthesizing the two virtual beams of each one of the virtual beam sets to be a monopulse; and (e) determining the DOA of the object according to comparison between magnitude of demodulated signals corresponding to the monopulses. A device for estimating a DOA is also disclosed.

    摘要翻译: 一种用于确定DOA(到达方向)的方法包括以下步骤:(a)提供以眯眼角度布置的至少两个天线; (b)在两个相邻的基本梁之间产生至少两个基本梁; (c)以特定角度交叉在一起的多个虚拟波束的每两个虚拟波束被定义为虚拟波束组; (d)将每个虚拟光束组的两个虚拟光束合成为单脉冲; 和(e)根据对应于单脉冲的解调信号的大小之间的比较来确定对象的DOA。 还公开了一种用于估计DOA的装置。