Equivalent time sampling radar

• US 7,675,459 B2
• Filed: 09/08/2008
• Issued: 03/09/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 09/11/2007
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fuji Heavy Industries Limited (Subaru Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Heavy Industries Limited (Subaru Corp.)
• Inventors: Yoshimura, Naohide
• Primary Examiner(s): Tarcza; Thomas H
• Assistant Examiner(s): Brainard; Timothy A
• Application Number:
  US12/206,110
• Publication Number:
  US 20090066561A1
• Time in Patent Office: 547 Days
• Field of Search: 342/159, 342/175, 342/186
• US Class Current: 342/159
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 13/222 using random or pseudorandom pulse repetition frequency
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 7/023 Interference mitigation, e.g. reducing or avoiding non-intentional interference with other HF-transmitters, base station transmitters for mobile communication or other radar systems, e.g. using electro-magnetic interference [EMI] reduction techniques auxiliary means for detecting or identifying radar signals or the like G01S7/021; means for anti-jamming G01S7/36

Abstract

A dither clock generating section 1 generates a dither clock. A transmission pulse generating section 2a generates a transmission pulse emitted to the outside from a transmitting antenna 2c on the basis of the dither clock. A sample hold section 6 samples a reception pulse, received by a receiving antenna 3a, on the basis of a sample pulse obtained by time sweeping of the changing timing of the dither clock, so as to produce a long-period reception pulse that is obtained by expanding the reception pulse on a time axis.

Claims

1. An equivalent time sampling radar comprising:

a dither clock generating section that generates a dither clock that is repeated randomly;

a transmission pulse generating section that generates a transmission pulse that is emitted to the outside from a transmitting antenna on the basis of the dither clock; and

a sample hold section that performs a sampling to a reception pulse that is received by a receiving antenna on the basis of a sample pulse that is obtained by time sweeping of the timing of the rise or the fall of the dither clock, so as to generate a long-period reception pulse by expanding the reception pulse on a time axis.

2. The equivalent time sampling radar according to claim 1, wherein

the dither clock generating section includes:

a reference clock generating section that generates a reference clock that repeatedly rises and falls at a constant period; and

a dither section that randomly varies a changing timing of the reference clock, and generates the dither clock.

3. The equivalent time sampling radar according to claim 2, wherein

the dither section randomly varies the changing timing of the reference clock within a predetermined jitter margin specified by one of the frequency of the transmission pulse and the frequency of the reception pulse.

4. The equivalent time sampling radar according to claim 3, wherein

the dither section randomly varies the changing timing of the reference clock in such a manner that the jitter at the rise or the fall of the dither clock forms a predetermined probability distribution within the predetermined margin.

5. The equivalent time sampling radar according to claim 2, wherein

the dither section includes:

a noise generator that generates a noise; and

a synthesizer that binarizes a synthetic waveform, which is obtained by synthesizing the reference clock generated at the reference clock generating section and the noise generated by the noise generator, at a slice level, so as to output the dither clock.

6. The equivalent time sampling radar according to claim 5, wherein

the dither section further includes a dither amount adjuster that adjusts the changing timing of the dither clock by adjusting the frequency of the noise generated by the noise generator according to one of the frequency of the reception pulse and the frequency of the transmission pulse.

7. The equivalent time sampling radar according to claim 1, further comprising:

an interference wave canceling section to which the long-period reception pulse generated at the sample hold section is input and that cancels pulses other than the transmission pulse as the interference wave.

8. The equivalent time sampling radar according to claim 7, wherein

the interference wave canceling section is a low-pass filter that only passes a predetermined low-frequency band of the long-period reception pulse.

9. The equivalent time sampling radar according to claim 7, wherein

the interference wave canceling section is a statistical processing section that performs a statistical process on the long-period reception pulse based on the sampling over a plurality of periods, and cancels the interference wave that has low temporal correlation with the sample pulse.