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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2023
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2020
Applicant:
Aurora Innovation, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Inventors:
Stephen Crouch, Bozeman, MT (US);
Chunshu Li, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
AURORA OPERATIONS, INC., Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 13/42 (2006.01); G01S 13/931 (2020.01); G01S 13/58 (2006.01); G01S 7/35 (2006.01); G01S 13/87 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01S 13/426 (2013.01); G01S 7/354 (2013.01); G01S 13/584 (2013.01); G01S 13/931 (2013.01); G01S 7/356 (2021.05); G01S 13/42 (2013.01); G01S 13/878 (2013.01);
Abstract
A vehicle radar system utilizes multiple radar sensors having overlapping fields of view to effectively synthesize a distributed radar antenna array aperture from the outputs of the multiple radar sensors and effectively enhance one or more of angular resolution, detection range and signal to noise ratio beyond that supported by any of the radar sensors individually.