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Date of Patent:
Jun. 27, 2023

Filed:

Mar. 15, 2019
Applicant:

Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Takahiro Takeda, Kanagawa, JP;

Assignee:

SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 7/02 (2006.01); G01S 7/03 (2006.01); G01S 13/00 (2006.01); G01S 13/931 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 7/025 (2013.01); G01S 7/03 (2013.01); G01S 13/003 (2013.01); G01S 13/931 (2013.01);
Abstract

A radar apparatus according to the present disclosure includes: a transmission unit configured to transmit radio waves; a reception unit including a first receiver configured to receive a first reflected radio wave and a second receiver configured to receive a second reflected radio wave, the first reflected radio wave and the second reflected radio wave having different polarization characteristics from each other and being included in reflected radio waves that are the radio waves reflected by a detection target; and a control unit configured to control operations of the transmission unit and the reception unit, and configured to identify the detection target on the basis of the operation of the transmission unit, a first reception level at the first receiver, and a second reception level at the second receiver.


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