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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 16, 2024
Filed:
Aug. 16, 2021
Applicant:
Metawave Corporation, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Inventor:
Jun Fang, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Metawave Corporation, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/08 (2006.01); H04B 7/0426 (2017.01); H04B 7/0456 (2017.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/043 (2013.01); H04B 7/046 (2013.01); H04B 7/0478 (2013.01); H04B 7/086 (2013.01);
Abstract
Examples disclosed herein relate to a Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) radar for virtual beam steering. The MIMO radar has a plurality of transmit antennas and a receive antenna array having a plurality of radiating elements. The MIMO radar also includes a digital signal processor (DSP) configured to synthesize a virtual receive array having N×M receive subarrays from the plurality of transmit antennas and the receive antenna array, where N is the number of transmit antennas and M is the number of receiving elements. Other examples disclosed herein relate to a method of virtual beam steering.