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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8179303 | Signal processing apparatus, radar apparatus, and signal processing method A signal processing apparatus for a radar transceiver, which receives a reflected signal generated by a target object in response to a frequency modulated transmission signal, and generates a beat signal having a frequency difference between the transmission signal ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8174432 | Radar apparatus A radar apparatus mounted in a vehicle includes an inward bent surface and a radar device. The inward bent surface is formed in a lower portion of a bumper of the vehicle, and curves inward with a higher degree of curvature in a horizontal plane than a bumper surfac... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8154436 | Object detection An object is detected by generating a m-ary primary signal having an irregular sequence of states. Each transition results in the transmission of a pulse encoded according to the type of transition. Reflected pulses are processed with a delayed, reference version of... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8149158 | Device for estimating information on target object A target object information estimating device embodied by an electronically agile radar sensor is mounted in a moving vehicle. The device has a unit outputting a radar wave every measuring period, receiving radar waves reflected from a target object through differen... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149157 | In-vehicle radar device and cover for in-vehicle radar device Provided is an in-vehicle radar device and a cover for the in-vehicle radar device which are capable of accurately detecting an object. The in-vehicle radar device radiates electromagnetic waves and receives reflected waves, from the object, of the electromag... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8130138 | Object detecting apparatus A ghost target candidate judging device judges that one target of two targets is a candidate for a ghost target where the distances of the two targets from a subject vehicle are equal to each other and where the difference between receiving levels of the two targets... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8125372 | Driver assistance system and method for checking the plausibility of objects In a method for checking the plausibility of objects in driver assistance systems for motor vehicles is described, two measured variables are derived from position data from two object position-finding systems of the vehicle that operate independently of one another... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8115669 | Vehicular radar device Provided is a vehicular radar device which is capable of reducing an operation resource quantity necessary for a process of estimating an axis deviation angle in a radar measurement coordinate system, to thereby reduce a device size. The vehicular radar device inclu... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8115668 | Object detecting apparatus for vehicle An object candidate position detecting apparatus which detects a position of an object candidate includes a unifying mechanism which unifies a plurality of object candidates detected within a predetermined unified range into a single group. Where the relative positi... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8085184 | Radar device and processing method therefor According to a conventional method of correlating beat frequencies in a radar device, a detecting state of a target differs at the time of up-chirping and at that of down-chirping, so that, when the number of peaks of beat frequencies does not match with each other,... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8085183 | Antenna radar system and method for its operation In an antenna radar system including a short-range function and a long-range function which is situated separately from the short-range function, the short-range function and the long-range function having different antenna apertures, means are provided for mutual c... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8077077 | Recognition system for vehicle In a recognition system for a vehicle, forward vehicle information and infrastructural information are checked together and with respect to information that can be considered to pertain to one and the same vehicle. Pieces of information on position and speed are ave... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8077075 | Object verification method for use in radar systems for motor vehicles In an object verification method for use in radar systems for motor vehicles, the distances and relative velocities of located objects are determined on the basis of received radar echoes. The signature of multiple reflections is searched for in the received radar e... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8077076 | FMCW radar sensor An FMCW radar sensor having a plurality of antenna elements and a supply circuit for supplying transmission signals having ramp-shaped modulated frequencies to the antenna elements, including a switchover device for switching over the supply circuit between a near-f... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8072370 | System and method for generating an alert signal in a detection system A system and method for generating alert signals in a detection system is described. The system compares data extracted from signals received via receive antenna beams with stored scenarios and determines whether to generate an alert signal based upon the results of... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8035548 | Evaluation method, particularly for a driver assistance system of a motor vehicle, for object detection using a radar sensor An evaluation method, e.g., for a driver assistance system of a motor vehicle, is provided for object detection using a radar sensor, which synchronously emits at least two separate radar beam lobes, that cover an angular range to be scanned, and which receives resp... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8031106 | Object ranging A method for determining at least one of the distance to and the speed of an object is discussed. The method comprises determining an indication of whether the object is approaching or moving away and generating an interrogation signal comprising a sequence consisti... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8031107 | Object detection device for vehicle and object detection method for vehicle An object detection device for a vehicle includes a transmitting-receiving unit, a reflection point computation unit, an object width computation unit, a representative point setting unit, a lateral relative velocity computation unit, a memory unit, and a lateral re... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8026843 | Radar methods and systems using ramp sequences One embodiment of the present invention relates to a method for detecting a range and velocity of a target. In this method, an electromagnetic wave is transmitted over a frequency range, where a period of the wave comprises a number of consecutive ramps. A first ram... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8022861 | Dual-band antenna array and RF front-end for mm-wave imager and radar The radar includes a PCB having a top surface and a bottom surface, and a processor mounted on the bottom surface of the PCB. The radar includes a second liquid crystal polymer layer formed on the top surface of the printed circuit board, a second microstrip array p... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8013780 | Radar sensing system for vehicle A radar sensing system for a vehicle includes a radar sensor device, a cover panel and a control. The radar sensor device is disposed at a pocket established at an upper edge of the vehicle windshield and having a forward transmitting and receiving direction that is... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8009082 | Mobile radar and planar antenna In a conventional automotive radar, a return occurs in a phase difference characteristic necessary for a super-resolution method, resulting in an increase of a detection error, or an extremely narrowed azimuth detection range. A transmitting array antenna, and recei... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7973700 | Dual transmitting antenna system A vehicle system includes a signal processing module and a first antenna that provides a first transmitted signal that has a first phase. A second antenna of the system provides a second transmitted signal that has a second phase that differs from the first phase. A... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7965224 | Running control system for vehicle A running control system having a radar device that detects a distance between a subject vehicle and a preceding vehicle. When a vehicle speed sensor detects the subject vehicle has stopped, a transmission output controller sets a transmission output of the radar de... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7932854 | Azimuth detecting apparatus and radar apparatus In an azimuth detecting apparatus, a receiver includes a plurality of first antenna elements and a second antenna element. The first antenna elements are arranged at first intervals d1 to form an array. The second antenna element is arranged to define a secon... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7924214 | Azimuth detecting apparatus and radar apparatus In an azimuth detecting apparatus, a receiver includes antenna elements arranged at predetermined intervals d. A first signal producer produces, based on reception signals generated by the antenna elements, first signals which are equivalent to signals generated by ... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7920087 | Apparatus for estimating state of vehicle located in frontward field An estimation apparatus estimates a state of a vehicle located in a frontward field. Positional coordinates of a plurality of positions on an object are measured by radiating radar waves toward the frontward field and receiving reflected radar waves from an object i... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7911374 | Radar device and target detection method A target position is estimated in such a manner to maintain target position continuity, with high accuracy, even when the X coordinate displacement of the target is large. On a scan in which the target position is not detected, when a trajectory of the target in the... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7907083 | Radar device A FMCW-type radar device generates snapshot data from a beat signal that represents a received condition of the radar device every modulation period. Auto-correlation matrices generated by the snapshot data every modulation period are averaged every set of plural pe... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7903021 | Obstacle detecting method, obstacle detecting apparatus, and standard moving-body model An obstacle detecting method for detecting a presence of an obstacle to a moving body using a sensor mounted on the moving body. The obstacle detecting method includes setting a movable area which is a surrounding area of the moving body and in which the moving body... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7898465 | Electronically scanned radar system and receiving antenna A plurality of array antenna elements are divided in terms of a set constituted of an optionally selected L number of groups. The spaces between the array antenna elements are determined by obtaining a greatest common divisor of the set as a greatest common divisor ... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7893864 | Radar apparatus and control method of the same A radar apparatus is provided. An antenna is configured to transmit a frequency-modulated transmission wave toward an object and receive a reception wave from the object. A mixer is configured to mix the transmission wave with the reception wave to generate a beat s... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7868816 | Radio detection device and method A radio detection device includes two or more reception antennas, for detecting a detecting object by a mono-pulse method; the radio detection device including: a variable gain unit for discretely changing respective signal intensity of a difference signal and a sum... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7864099 | Low cost short range radar A low cost radar system that employs monopulse beamforming to detect objects in the road-way both in elevation and azimuth. In one non-limiting embodiment, a beamforming receiver architecture includes a first beamforming device and a plurality of antennas coupled to... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7834803 | Electronically steered, dual-polarized, dual-plane, monopulse antenna feed A method and apparatus for electronically steering a RADAR beam across an array of feed horns by moving the phase center of the beam to different origination points on the array—each origination point being the phase center of a feed horn pair. Variations include ... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7830301 | Dual-band antenna array and RF front-end for automotive radars The automotive radar includes a printed circuit board having a top surface and a bottom surface, and a processor mounted on the bottom surface of the printed circuit board. The automotive radar also includes a second liquid crystal polymer layer formed on the top su... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7825849 | Object detecting apparatus and method for detecting an object An object detection apparatus includes a radar that detects the position of an object; an imaging device that detects the position and size of an object; a fusion processing device that fuses the object detected by the radar device and the object detected by the ima... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7821443 | Dual mode radar methods and systems One embodiment relates to a dual mode radar transceiver. The dual mode transceiver includes a plurality of transmit channels. Each of the plurality of transmit channels is adapted to switch between a first mode and a second mode. The first mode includes a first comb... | 10/26/2010 |
| 7817081 | Radar apparatus, method for controlling the same, and vehicle including the same Provided is a radar apparatus that detects an object, and includes: an oscillating unit for generating carrier waves; first and second transmission units for spreading the carrier waves, respectively using a first pseudo-random code and a second pseudo-random code d... | 10/19/2010 |
| 7804443 | Millimeter waveband transceiver, radar and vehicle using the same In a millimeter waveband transceiver using an antenna and a waveguide for a connection line, it is necessary to perform transmission mode line conversion between TEM waves of a microstrip line and VTE01 mode waves of the waveguide. There is a limit to reducing the c... | 09/28/2010 |
