Radar apparatus and computer program
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1. A radar apparatus comprising:
- a transmission antenna configured to transmit an electromagnetic wave;
a reception antenna configured to receive an electromagnetic wave when the transmitted electromagnetic wave has been reflected by an object;
a reception wave acquisition section configured to acquire the received electromagnetic wave at specific intervals in time;
a reception power calculator configured to compute power of the received electromagnetic wave as a function of an acquisition time number by the reception wave acquisition section;
a representative point extractor configured to extract plural representative points from the function; and
a determination section configured to determine whether the object is an overhead object positioned higher than an optical axis of the reception antenna based on the representative points.
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Abstract
According to embodiments, there is provided a radar apparatus including:
- a transmission antenna configured to transmit an electromagnetic wave;
- a reception antenna configured to receive an electromagnetic wave when the transmitted electromagnetic wave has been reflected by an object;
- a reception wave acquisition section configured to acquire the received electromagnetic wave at specific intervals in time;
- a reception power calculator configured to compute the power of the received electromagnetic wave as a function of the acquisition time number by the reception wave acquisition section;
- a representative point extractor configured to extract plural representative points from the function; and
- a determination section configured to determine whether or not the object is an overhead object positioned higher than the optical axis of the receiving antenna based on the representative points.
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1. A radar apparatus comprising:
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a transmission antenna configured to transmit an electromagnetic wave; a reception antenna configured to receive an electromagnetic wave when the transmitted electromagnetic wave has been reflected by an object; a reception wave acquisition section configured to acquire the received electromagnetic wave at specific intervals in time; a reception power calculator configured to compute power of the received electromagnetic wave as a function of an acquisition time number by the reception wave acquisition section; a representative point extractor configured to extract plural representative points from the function; and a determination section configured to determine whether the object is an overhead object positioned higher than an optical axis of the reception antenna based on the representative points. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A computer program to cause a computer to execute processing, the processing comprising:
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acquiring an electromagnetic wave received by a reception antenna at specific intervals in time; computing power of the received electromagnetic wave as a function of an acquisition time number; extracting plural representative points from the function; and determining whether the object is an overhead object positioned higher than an optical axis of the reception antenna based on the representative points.
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21. A radar apparatus comprising:
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a transmission antenna configured to transmit an electromagnetic wave; a reception antenna configured to receive an electromagnetic wave when the transmitted electromagnetic wave has been reflected by an object; a separation distance detector configured to detect separation distance to the object based on the received electromagnetic wave; a reception power calculator configured to compute power of the received electromagnetic wave as a function of the detected separation distance; an area calculator configured to compute area of a region in a specific separation distance segment defined by a curve representing the function as one boundary; and a detection section configured to determine whether the object is a low height object based on the computed area. - View Dependent Claims (22, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29)
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23. A radar apparatus comprising:
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a transmission antenna configured to transmit an electromagnetic wave; a reception antenna configured to receive an electromagnetic wave when the transmitted electromagnetic wave has been reflected by an object; a reception power calculator configured to compute power of the received electromagnetic wave as a function of time; an area calculator configured to compute area of a region in a specific time segment defined by a curve representing the function as one boundary; and a detection section configured to determine whether the object is a low height object based on the computed area. - View Dependent Claims (24, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34)
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35. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions executed by a processor, the instructions comprising:
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acquiring an electromagnetic wave received by a reception antenna at specific intervals in time; computing power of the received electromagnetic wave as a function of an acquisition time number; extracting plural representative points from the function; and determining whether the object is an overhead object positioned higher than an optical axis of the reception antenna based on the representative points.
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