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PHASE DOPPLER RADAR
20220196823 · 2022-06-23 ·

A phase Doppler radar system may comprise a pulse Doppler receiver/transmitter (R/T) subsystem coupled with a processing subsystem. The system may determine target velocity and target detection events by collecting pulses from the pulse Doppler R/T subsystem, determine an undifferentiated phase of each of the pulses, differentiate the pulses, and determine a differentiated phase of each of the pulses. The system may perform a linear fit of the differentiated phases of the pulses to produce a slope and an intercept. The system may determine a set of initial estimates of coefficients of a nonlinear fit equation. The system may perform iterations of a nonlinear least squares fit, beginning with the initial coefficient estimates, to produce a non-linear fit result. The system may determine a goodness-of-fit (GoF) statistic associated with the nonlinear fit result, and declare a detection event when the GoF is superior to a GoF statistic associated Gaussian noise.

SYSTEM FOR MONITORING A HEALTH PARAMETER OF A PERSON THAT INVOLVES PRODUCING A PULSE WAVE SIGNAL FROM A RADIO FREQUENCY FRONT-END
20220192511 · 2022-06-23 ·

Embodiments of the present technology may include a radar system for a wearable health monitoring device, the radar system including a radio frequency (RF) front-end including at least one transmit antenna and a two-dimensional array of receive antennas, the RF front-end configured to perform radio frequency scanning across a frequency range, the radio frequency scanning performed using the at least one transmit antenna and the two-dimensional array of receive antennas, and a processor configured to generate digital data in response to the radio frequency scanning and to coherently combine the generated digital data across the two-dimensional array of receive antennas and across the range of radio frequencies to produce a pulse wave signal of the person, and to determine a value that is indicative of a blood glucose level in the person in response to the pulse wave signal.

RADAR APPARATUS
20220187440 · 2022-06-16 ·

A radar transmitter includes: a plurality of transmission antennas that transmit a transmission signal; and a transmission circuit that applies a phase rotation amount corresponding to a Doppler shift amount and a code sequence to the transmission signal to perform multiplexing transmission of the transmission signal from the plurality of transmission antennas. Each of the plurality of transmission antennas is associated with each of a plurality of combinations of the Doppler shift amount and the code sequence. Each of the plurality of combination is different at least one of the Doppler shift amount and the code sequence, and the Doppler shift amounts of those of the plurality of combinations which are associated respectively with at least two transmission antennas of the plurality of transmission antennas are the same Doppler shift amount, the at least two transmission antennas being a first sub-array antenna.

Ambiguity resolution for a MIMO radar system
11360204 · 2022-06-14 · ·

A method for a MIMO radar system includes encoding signals that are transmitted from different transmitting antennas according to code blocks; determining for a radar object a Doppler estimation that has a periodic ambiguity; and resolving the periodic ambiguity, where the resolving includes, for each of multiple ambiguity hypotheses of the Doppler shift: compensating for the Doppler shift according to the respective ambiguity hypothesis, and decoding for separating signal components associated with the transmitting antennas. An ambiguity hypothesis that is applicable to the radar object is selected based on quality criteria for the decoding for the particular ambiguity hypotheses, and an unambiguous speed estimation of the radar object is determined corresponding to the Doppler estimation and the selected ambiguity hypothesis. The quality of an angle estimation based on the signal components can be determined as a quality criterion for the decoding.

RADAR DETECTOR AND INTERFERENCE SUPPRESSION METHOD USING RADAR DETECTOR
20220179040 · 2022-06-09 · ·

A radar detector including a radar transmitting device, a radar receiving device, an analog-to-digital converter (ADC), and a digital processing unit, and an interference suppression method using the radar detector are provided. The radar transmitting device transmits a first wireless signal. The radar receiving device receives a second wireless signal to generate an analog reference signal in response to the first wireless signal is subdued from being transmitted, and receives a third wireless signal to generate an analog main signal in response to the first wireless signal is not subdued from being transmitted. The ADC generates a digital reference signal according to the analog reference signal, and generates a digital main signal according to the analog main signal. The digital processing unit adjusts the digital or analog main signal according to the digital reference signal to correspondingly suppress interference components in the digital main signal or in the analog main signal.

Co-Prime Coded (CPC) Doppler Division Multiplexing (DDM) MIMO Radar Method and System
20220171049 · 2022-06-02 · ·

A co-prime coded DDM MIMO radar system, apparatus, architecture, and method are provided with a reference signal generator (112) that produces a transmit reference signal; a plurality of DDM transmit modules (11) that produce, condition, and transmit a plurality of transmit signals over which each have a different co-prime encoded progressive phase offset from the transmit reference signal; a receiver module (12) that receives a target return signal reflected from the plurality of transmit signals by a target and generates a digital signal from the target return signal; and a radar control processing unit (20) configured to detect Doppler spectrum peaks in the digital signal, where the radar control processing unit comprises a Doppler disambiguation module (25) that is configured with a CPC decoder to associate each detected Doppler spectrum peak with a corresponding DDM transmit module, thereby generating a plurality of transmitter-associated Doppler spectrum peak detections.

Antenna device and radar including the same

The present disclosure relates to an antenna device and a radar including the same. Specifically, the antenna device according to the present disclosure includes: at least one first antenna arranged in one direction and configured to radiate a beam tilted at a first tilt angle; at least one second antenna arranged to be spaced apart from the first antenna and configured to radiate a beam tilted at a second tilt angle; an input/output terminal disposed such that any one of a transmission signal and a reception signal moves therethrough; and a divider comprising a first port connected to the first antenna, a second port connected to the second antenna, and a third port connected to the input/output terminal, wherein the divider is disposed such that a signal transmitted to one of the first port and the second port is transmitted to a remaining one of the first and second port through a first path and a second path and the transmitted signal is isolated in the remaining port.

Doppler ambiguity resolution in MIMO radars using a SIMO evaluation

Embodiments include methods, systems and computer readable storage medium for a method for determining a fine direction of arrival (DOA) for a target is disclosed. The method includes receiving, by a plurality of receivers of a radar system, radar signals reflected by a target. The method further includes mitigating, by the radar system, phase shifts in the radar signals caused by a motion of the target. The method further includes determining, by the radar system, the fine DOA in response to the mitigation of phase shifts and based on the radar signals. The method further includes estimating and storing, by the radar system, a Doppler frequency based on the fine DOA.

METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETECTING A TRAFFIC LAW VIOLATION DUE TO THE ALLOWABLE DISTANCE BETWEEN A FOLLOWING VEHICLE AND A GUIDE VEHICLE BEING UNDERSHOT

A method for detecting a traffic law violation due to the allowable distance between a following vehicle and a guide vehicle being undershot, the following vehicle traveling behind the guide vehicle. At least the respective speed of the following vehicle is identified and the guide vehicle in a detection region in the surroundings of a sensor which supplies speed measurement values. A reference distance is detected and/or ascertained between the following vehicle and the guide vehicle at a reference measurement point. At least one following distance is determined between the following vehicle and the guide vehicle in the detection region using the identified speeds of the following vehicle and the guide vehicle and/or the detected reference distance. A traffic law violation is detected if the following distance in the detection region continuously falls short of a distance threshold.

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RADAR WAVEFORMS USING ORTHOGONAL SEQUENCE SETS
20230273292 · 2023-08-31 ·

Systems, methods, and apparatus for radar waveforms using orthogonal sequence sets are disclosed. In one or more examples, a vehicle for autonomous driving comprises a radar sensor. In some examples, the radar sensor comprises a waveform transmission module adapted to generate a phase-coded waveform based on a set of concatenated orthogonal sequences. Also, in some examples, the radar sensor comprises a receiver adapted to estimate a range and Doppler from a received echo from the phase-coded waveform. In one or more examples, the orthogonal sequences are Zadoff-Chu (ZC) sequences.