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Radar apparatus and signal processing method of radar apparatus

US10353063B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateMay 26, 2015
Grant dateJul 16, 2019
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Expiry dateMay 26, 2036

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG01S2013/932
  • WIPO fieldMeasurement
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A radar apparatus includes a targeting unit that irradiates a radar wave and recognizes a detection subject using a reflected wave thereof. The targeting unit extracts, as a target, a peak that is confirmed to have historical connection over measurement cycles equal to or more than a predetermined targeting threshold, from peaks extracted from a power spectrum generated by frequency analysis. A rainy-weather determining unit determines that weather is rainy when a number of erroneous detections is greater than a predetermined rainy-weather determination threshold. The number of erroneous detections is a number of peaks that have been detected in a previous measurement cycle or earlier by the targeting unit and are not confirmed to have historical connection to a peak detected in a current measurement cycle. A parameter updating unit updates the targeting threshold so as to be a larger value as the number of erroneous detections increases when the rainy-weather determining unit determines that the weather is rainy.

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