Cancellation system for millimeter-wave radar

• US 8,611,401 B2
• Filed: 03/29/2011
• Issued: 12/17/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 04/01/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nant Holdings IP, LLC (NantWorks, LLC)
• Original Assignee: Adeptence, LLC
• Inventors: Lakkis, Ismail
• Primary Examiner(s): Torres, Juan A
• Application Number:
  US13/074,861
• Publication Number:
  US 20110243202A1
• Time in Patent Office: 994 Days
• Field of Search: 375/219, 375/346, 375/351
• US Class Current: 375/219
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/525 with means for reducing leakage of transmitter signal into the receiver

Abstract

In a millimeter-wave radar, full-duplex operation comprises identifying a leakage signal in a digital baseband received signal, estimating the leakage signal, synthesizing an estimated leakage signal, and subtracting the estimated leakage signal from the digital baseband received signal. The time interval during which the leakage signal occurs may be measured, and samples of the digital baseband received signal within the time interval are masked to remove the leakage.

Claims

1. In a transceiver, a method comprising:

receiving a signal substantially free of a desired received signal for identifying a leakage signal in a digital baseband received signal;

estimating the leakage signal;

synthesizing an estimated digital baseband leakage signal; and

subtracting the estimated digital baseband leakage signal from the digital baseband received signal for producing an interference-cancelled digital baseband received signal.

2. The method recited in claim 1, wherein estimating the leakage signal comprises measuring the digital baseband received signal during a calibration phase when desired signals are suppressed.

3. The method recited in claim 1, wherein estimating the leakage signal comprises measuring a time interval between transmitting a transmission signal and detecting the leakage signal.

4. The method recited in claim 1, wherein synthesizing comprises measuring a digital baseband transmit signal generated by the transceiver.

5. The method recited in claim 1, wherein the digital baseband received signal is a matched-filtered signal.

6. The method recited in claim 2, wherein identifying and estimating are terminated upon concluding the calibration phase.

7. A transceiver, comprising:

a timer for measuring a time interval between transmitting a transmission signal and detecting a leakage signal in a digital baseband received signal that is substantially free of any desired received signal;

a detector for estimating the leakage signal;

a synthesizer for synthesizing an estimated digital baseband leakage signal; and

a canceller for subtracting the estimated digital baseband leakage signal from the digital baseband received signal for producing an interference-cancelled digital baseband received signal.

8. The transceiver recited in claim 7, wherein the detector is configured for estimating the leakage signal during a calibration phase when desired signals are suppressed in the digital baseband received signal.

9. The transceiver recited in claim 7, wherein the time interval is employed for differentiating a leakage signal from a desired signal in the digital baseband received signal.

10. The transceiver recited in claim 7, wherein the estimated digital baseband leakage signal comprises at least one of the transmitted signal and a local signal generated by the synthesizer.

11. The transceiver recited in claim 7, wherein the detector comprises a threshold detector.

12. The transceiver recited in claim 7, wherein the digital baseband received signal is a matched-filtered signal.

13. A non-transitory machine-readable medium comprising instructions encoded thereon and executable to:

identify a leakage signal in a digital baseband received signal;

estimate the leakage signal;

synthesize an estimated digital baseband leakage signal; and

subtract the estimated digital baseband leakage signal from the digital baseband received signal to produce an interference-cancelled digital baseband received signal.