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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 26, 2022
Filed:
Jan. 17, 2018
Nec Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Shingo Yamanouchi, Tokyo, JP;
NEC CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An object detection apparatusincludes a plurality of transmitting unitsconfigured to emit a transmission signal, a receiving unitconfigured to mix the reception signal with a transmission signal to generate an IF signal, a spectrum calculation unitconfigured to calculate a spectrum that indicates a distribution of positions of the object, a section determination unitconfigured to determine sections for which a reflectance of the object is to be calculated, a reflectance distribution calculation unitconfigured to calculate, for each pair of a transmitting unit and the receiving unit, a reflectance of the object for each section, and calculate a product of the reflectance distributions over the sections, the reflectance distributions being calculated for the respective pairs, and an image generation unitconfigured to generate an image using a product of the reflectance distributions calculated for the respective pairs.