Moving object detecting device

• US 4,961,039 A
• Filed: 03/28/1988
• Issued: 10/02/1990
• Est. Priority Date: 04/03/1987
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Matsushita Electric Works Ltd (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Works Ltd (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Yamauchi, Kazumasa, Inoue, Hiromitsu, Katayama, Susumu
• Primary Examiner(s): Orsino, Joseph A.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Hofsass, Jeffery A.
• Application Number:
  US07/174,169
• Time in Patent Office: 918 Days
• Field of Search: 340/554, 367/94, 342/417, 342/28
• US Class Current: 340/554
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 13/56 for presence detection presence detection using near field arrangements G01V3/00, e.g. G01V3/08, G01V3/12; burglar, theft or intruder alarms with electrical actuation G08B13/22 - G08B13/26
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 15/523 for presence detection burglar, theft or intruder alarms G08B13/00, e.g. G08B13/16

Abstract

A moving object detecting device is arranged for detection in time series of an angle of respective received-wave signals at every moment with respect to basic axes in a vector plane, the basic axes being a pair of intermediate signals obtained by converting frequency deviation components of the received-wave signals responsive to incident on a wave receiver of reflected waves of radiated energy by a wave radiator from an object moving in a supervisory zone. Such moving object can be thereby detected at a high precision, irrespective of how quickly or slowly it moves within the zone.

Claims

1. A moving object detecting device comprising:

means for oscillating at a predetermined frequency, a wave radiator for receiving an output of said oscillating means and radiating continuous energy waves to a supervisory zone, a wave receiver on which reflected waves of said continuous energy waves radiated by said wave radiator and back from an object in said supervisory zone are made incident, a converter connected to said wave receiver for converting a frequency deviation component of a received-wave signal from the receiver into a pair of intermediate signals which are mutually different in phase, means connected to said converter for detecting quadrants in which a received-wave signal vector is present in a vector plane the basic axes of which are said pair of intermediate signals, temporary storing means connected to said quadrant detecting means for temporarily storing detected quadrant signals therefrom, means receiving said quadrant signals to compare them with data signals previously stored in said temporary storing means for detecting a direction of a shift in quadrants, means receiving an output from said quadrant shift direction detecting means for operating to obtain addition and subtraction of quadrant shifts to determine the number of quadrant shifts which have taken place, and means receiving an output provided from said operating means when said output has exceeded a preset threshold level for indicating detected information on the moving object.

2. A device according to claim 1, wherein said operating means operates to obtain the addition or subtraction of the number of quadrant shifts in said received-wave signal vector which have taken place in the same or opposite direction, respectively.

3. A device according to claim 1, wherein said quadrant shift direction detecting means generates positive and negative signals indicative of shifting direction of a vector of said received-wave signal, said positive and negative signals forming said output received by said operating means, said device further including additional means for receiving said positive and negative signals from said quadrant shift direction detecting means and for integrating these signals, an output of said integrating means being provided to said indicating means when said integrating means output has exceeded a preset threshold level, said indicating means being actuated by an output provided from either said operating means or said integrating means.