Vehicle radar apparatus and control method thereof
AssigneeHyundai Mobis Co., Ltd.
InventorYoung Hoon Kim
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Abstract
The vehicle radar apparatus may include a transmitting array antenna configured to radiate radar signals for forward detection, N receiving array antennas configured to receive the radar signals reflected from a target after being radiated from the transmitting array antenna, and a control unit configured to estimate an azimuth of the target by using non-offset receiving array antennas among the N receiving array antennas and estimate an elevation of the target by using a phase difference between an offset receiving array antenna and the non-offset receiving array antenna among the N receiving array antennas and the azimuth of the target.
Claims11
A vehicle radar apparatus comprising:
- a transmitting array antenna configured to radiate radar signals for forward detection;
- N receiving array antennas configured to receive the radar signals reflected from a target after being radiated from the transmitting array antenna;
- and
- a controller configured to estimate an azimuth of the target using non-offset receiving array antennas from among the N receiving array antennas,
- wherein the non-offset receiving array antennas comprise antennas having no offset in a vertical direction from among the N receiving array antennas.
A control method of a vehicle radar apparatus, the control method comprising:
- radiating, by a transmitting array antenna, radar signals for forward detection;
- receiving, by N receiving array antennas, radar signals reflected from a target after being radiated from the transmitting array antenna;
- and
- estimating, by a controller, an azimuth of the target using non-offset receiving array antennas from among the N receiving array antennas,
- wherein the non-offset receiving array antennas comprise antennas having no offset in a vertical direction from among the N receiving array antennas.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.