Programmable digital subchannel processor for radar detector

A radar detector, comprising

• a. a radar receiver for receiving and characterizing the signal characteristics of a received radar signal, wherein the received radar signal includes signals generated remotely by one or more law enforcement sources, or signals generated remotely by one or more non-law enforcement sources, or both, the radar receiver using a local oscillator that is not synchronized to any of said sources to provide an output representative of the received radar signal comprising one or more of radar frequency, radar intensity and radar direction,
• b. a control system coupled to the radar receiver and receiving the output thereof, the control system comprising a neural network structured in multiple layers each processing signal characteristics delivered thereto to develop neural pathways associated with the distinguishing signatures of the signal characteristics of remotely generated signals from law enforcement sources when provided to the neural network, and
• c. a digital signal processing section processing N subchannels of the output of the radar receiver, where N is greater than 1, the digital signal processing section comprising an analog to digital converter, a demultiplexing stage comprising N synthesizers and N multipliers, a decimation stage comprising N decimators, and a filtering stage comprising N compensation filters, the corresponding synthesizer, multiplier, decimator and filter operating to produce subchannels of the radar receiver output, the digital signal processing section coupled to the control system to provide subchannels of the radar receiver output to the neural network,
• wherein the control system identifies the presence, or absence, of a remotely generated signal from a law enforcement source based upon the distinguishing signatures of signal characteristics associated with neural pathways within the neural network, and communicates the result of the identification as a radar detection output.