Method and systems for object detection using a radar module are disclosed. Frames of range and doppler data are received from a radar module at sample time intervals. Doppler zero slice data is extracted from a current frame of the range and doppler data. A prediction of doppler zero slice data is maintained. The prediction of doppler zero slice data is based at least partly on doppler zero slice data from a previous frame of range and doppler data. Standard deviation data is determined based at least partly on prediction error data. The prediction error data relates to a difference between the prediction of doppler zero slice data and the doppler zero slice data. An object detection output is determined based on a comparison of the standard deviation data and an object detection threshold.

A system and a method that enable two or more dispersed platforms to simultaneously use respective frequency-modulated continuous-wave radar systems in a typical radar application such as synthetic-aperture radar for terrain mapping, moving-target indicator radar to track targets on the ground and air-to-air tracking of other aircraft. The systems use the same RF spectrum in their operation and also communicate through their respective radar systems while simultaneously reducing their interplatform interference through the use of both filters and coded waveforms.

This document describes techniques and systems for authentication management through IMU and radar. The techniques and systems use inertial sensor data from an inertial measurement unit (IMU) and/or radar data to manage authentication for a computing device. By so doing, the techniques conserve power, improve accuracy, or reduce latency relative to many common techniques and systems for computing-device authentication.

This document describes techniques and systems for reducing a state based on sensor data from an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) and radar. The techniques and systems use inertial sensor data from an IMU as well as radar data to reduce states of a user equipment, such as power, access, and information states. These states represent power used, an amount of access permitted, or an amount of information provided by the user equipment. The techniques manage the user equipment's states to correspond to a user's engagement with the user equipment, which can save power, reduce unwarranted access, and reduce an amount of information provided when the user is not engaged with the user equipment, thereby protecting the user's privacy.

A radar device includes a radar signal outputting unit that repeatedly outputs radar signals whose frequency changes with the passage of time, at a non-uniform repetition period.

An object is to enable measurement of position and velocity of a measurement object.

A velocity measurement device includes a transmitting means, a receiving means, and a signal processing means. The transmitting means transmits a transmission signal by a transmitting antenna toward a measurement object. The receiving means receives a reflected wave from the measurement object with multiple receiving antennas and generates a reception signal for each of the receiving antennas. The signal processing means obtains a phase plane of the reflected wave with respect to an antenna plane of the multiple receiving antennas from a phase difference between the reception signals to specify an arrival direction of the reflected wave, obtains a distance to the measurement object from a propagation delay time of the reflected wave, and calculates a phase fluctuation of the reflected wave to calculate a velocity of the measurement object from the phase fluctuation.

An apparatus is disclosed for proximity detection using adaptive mutual coupling cancellation. In an example aspect, the apparatus includes at least two antennas, a wireless transceiver connected to the at least two antennas, and a mutual coupling cancellation module. The at least two antennas include a first antenna and a second antenna, which are mutually coupled electromagnetically. The second antenna includes two feed ports. The wireless transceiver is configured to transmit a radar transmit signal via the first antenna and receive two versions of a radar receive signal respectively via the two feed ports of the second antenna. The wireless transceiver is also configured to adjust a transmission parameter based on a decoupled signal. The transmission parameter varies based on a range to the object. The mutual coupling cancellation module is configured to generate the decoupled signal based on the two versions of the radar receive signal.

Pulse compression units (9-m) (m=1, . . . , M) obtain frequency spectra of received signals by performing Fourier transform on the received signals output from receiver devices (7-m), calculate spectrum products of references for pulse compression, the references determined by beam directional angles indicating propagation directions of transmission pulses and carrier frequencies, and the frequency spectra, and perform inverse Fourier transform on the spectrum products. This enables reduction in the calculation scale by reducing the number of times of execution of Fourier transform and inverse Fourier transform when pulse compression is performed.

While a radar waveform generator coupled to a phased antenna array is inactive, a beam steering command is provided to the phased antenna array to cause the phased antenna array be configured for a given transmit and receive direction. While the radar waveform generator is active, received radar results are assigned to the given transmit and receive direction. the providing of the command and the assigning are repeated for a plurality of additional transmit and receive directions corresponding to a desired scan area.

A radar system is provided that includes a radar transceiver integrated circuit (IC) configurable to transmit a first frame of chirps, and another radar transceiver IC configurable to transmit a second frame of chirps at a time delay T, wherein T=T.sub.c/K, K2 and T.sub.c is an elapsed time from a start of one chirp in the first frame and the second frame and a start of a next chirp in the first frame and the second frame, wherein the radar system is configured to determine a velocity of an object in a field of view of the radar system based on first digital intermediate frequency signals generated responsive to receiving reflected chirps of the first frame and second digital IF signals generated responsive to receiving reflected chirps of the time delayed second frame, wherein the maximum measurable velocity is increased by a factor of K.