ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,009, issued on March 24, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).
"Radar apparatus, object detection method and object detection program" was invented by Tatsuya Iizuka (Musashino, Japan), Yohei Toriumi (Musashino, Japan), Fumihiko Ishiyama (Musashino, Japan) and Jun Kato (Musashino, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radar apparatus includes: a transmission unit that transmits a chirp signal; a reception unit that receives a reflected signal that is the chirp signal reflected by a scatterer; and a pole calculation unit that calculates a beat signal based on the chirp signal and the reflected signal and calculates a pole of the beat si...