Examples disclosed herein relate to a Meta-Structure (“MTS”) antenna system with adaptive frequency-based power compensation. The MTS antenna system includes a radiating array structure having a plurality of radiating elements, and a transmission array structure coupled to the radiating array structure and feeding a transmission signal through to the radiating array structure. The transmission array structure has a plurality of super element transmission paths, each having a plurality of vias to form transmission paths and a plurality of slots for feeding the transmission signal to the radiating array structure, and a plurality of power amplifiers coupled to an adaptive feedback module, each power amplifier coupled to a super element transmission path, the adaptive feedback module to adjust a power gain at a center frequency.

An electronic device includes a controller that performs control to enable switching between a first band mode such that a transmission wave is in a first band and a second band mode such that the transmission wave is in a second band broader than the first band. The controller performs control to switch to the second band mode when an object is detected within a predetermined distance in the first band mode.

A self-diagnosis device of a module including a general-purpose multi-channel IC and a reception phase shifter IC having a plurality of transmission output terminals and reception terminals is configured to perform a self-diagnosis of the reception phase shifter IC by utilizing a signal that is generatable by the general-purpose multi-channel IC, which is enabled by a self-diagnosis signal generation unit that generates a self-diagnosis signal by using (a) a first output signal supplied to a multi-channel receiver of the general-purpose multi-channel IC and (b) a third output signal and a self-diagnosis clock signal synchronously output from a single PLL.

A distance measurement device includes: a signal division unit to divide a digital signal into N digital signals (N is an integer equal to or greater than 2), the digital signal showing interference light between reflected light which is received from a distance measurement target, and reference light; a frequency shift unit to shift a frequency of each of the N digital signals after distribution; a Fourier transform unit to perform a Fourier transform on each of the N digital signals after frequency shift; and a distance calculation unit to determine a frequency component related to the distance measurement target, to determine a shift amount related to a signal after the Fourier transform which includes the determined frequency component, and to calculate the distance from the distance measurement device to the distance measurement target from the sum of the frequency of the determined frequency component and the determined shift amount.

A method of determining a filling level of a product in a tank, comprising the steps of: generating an electromagnetic transmit signal exhibiting a measurement sweep across a time series of piece-wise constant frequencies being within a measurement frequency range starting at a first frequency, and ending at a second frequency higher than the first frequency, a difference between frequencies in each pair of adjacent frequencies in the frequency range being equal to the first frequency; guiding the transmit signal towards and into the product in the tank; guiding an electromagnetic reflection signal back towards the transceiver; mixing the reflection signal with an electromagnetic reference signal, resulting in a mixer output indicative of a difference between the reflection signal and the reference signal; forming a measurement signal based on the mixer output; and determining the filling level based on the measurement signal.

The embodiments relate to a radar control device and method. Specifically, a radar control device according to the embodiments may include a transceiver configured to transmit a transmission signal to the surroundings of a host vehicle and receive a reception signal received by reflecting the transmission signal on an object, a determiner configured to generate a first range-Doppler map by performing fast Fourier transform (FFT) on the reception signal and generate a second range-Doppler map based on a comparison group including a plurality of preset temporary lateral distances, and determine a correlation coefficient between the first range-Doppler map and the second range-Doppler map, and an estimator configured to estimate a lateral distance between the host vehicle and the object based on the correlation coefficient.

Apparatus and associated methods relate to enabling a radar system to use different sensing mechanisms to estimate a distance from a target based on different detection zones (e.g., far-field and near-field). In an illustrative example, a curve fitting method may be applied for near-field sensing, and a Fourier transform may be used for far-field sensing. A predetermined set of rules may be applied to select when to use the near-field sensing mechanism and when to use the far-field mechanism. The frequency of a target signal within a beat signal that has less than two sinusoidal cycles may be estimated with improved accuracy. Accordingly, the distance of a target that is within a predetermined distance range (e.g., two meters range for 24 GHz ISM band limitation) may be reliably estimated.

The disclosure provides a method for estimating the nondirectional wave spectrum from the sea echoes of multiple HF radar frequencies. The method includes: dividing the radar detection area into a plurality of fan-shaped units at an equal range interval and angle interval according to the distance resolution and the angular resolution of an HF radar; obtaining the Doppler spectrum from the sea echo of a single radar frequency at a fan-shaped unit by performing the first fast Fourier transform (FFT) in distance dimension, the second FFT in Doppler frequency dimension and the digital beamforming; extracting the positive first-order peak and the negative first-order peak from the aforementioned Doppler spectrum by the peak-searching method; and selecting the stronger first-order peak σ.sub.R.sup.(1)(ω) ; dividing the second-order spectrum on the stronger first-order peak side into an inner second-order spectrum and an outer second-order spectrum.

The present disclosure relates to distance measurement methods and apparatuses. One example method includes receiving multiple first echo signals, determining multiple first spectrum data groups based on the multiple first echo signals, performing normalization processing on a signal strength value corresponding to each distance value comprised in each first spectrum data group to obtain a normalized signal strength value corresponding to each distance value, determining, based on a normalized signal strength value, a variance value of a signal strength value corresponding to each distance value comprised in the multiple first spectrum data ggroups, and determining a distance between a target obstacle on the to-be-measured object and the transmitting origin based on the variance value of the signal strength value corresponding to each distance value comprised in the multiple first spectrum data groups.

A method for interference reduction between radar units. The method is performed by a radar unit and comprises: receiving one or more radar frames, wherein the one or more radar frames correspond to one or more respective time intervals during which the radar unit was activated to transmit and receive signals to produce data samples of the one or more radar frames; and determining whether the one or more radar frames have a higher presence of data samples that are subject to interference from other radar units in a first half of their corresponding time intervals than in a second, later, half of their corresponding time intervals. In case the presence is higher in the first half of their corresponding time intervals, a scheduled time interval of an upcoming radar frame to be produced by the radar unit is postponed, and otherwise it is advanced.